The country apparently came within a hair’s breadth of having former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in the U.S. Senate, according to Corey Lewandowski.
On Tuesday morning, the political operative-turned-CNN-commentator announced on Twitter that he would not run for Senate in New Hampshire, but if he had, he “would have won.”
“After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate. While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won. My priorities remain my family and ensuring that <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> is re-elected POTUS,” Lewandowski said.
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(1/3) After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate. While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won. My priorities remain my family and ensuring that <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is re-elected POTUS
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/1212041542250192897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“I am truly humbled by the outpouring of support I have received from people across New Hampshire and the country. NH needs a US Senator who will put our citizens first and not illegal aliens; one who will support pro-growth policies to keep the Trump economy strong,” he continued. “One who will support strict constitutionalist judges; and one who will fight for our values, not those of Washington, DC. Accordingly, I will be making an endorsement in the Republican Primary for US Senate in the near future to ensure we defeat Jeanne Shaheen in 2020.”
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(3/3) One who will support strict constitutionalist judges; and one who will fight for our values, not those of Washington, DC. Accordingly, I will be making an endorsement in the Republican Primary for US Senate in the near future to ensure we defeat Jeanne Shaheen in 2020.
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/1212041544125038593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A poll from Emerson College released on September 11 found Lewandowski was leading the GOP primary candidates in the state, with a 14-point lead over retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc. The same poll also found that Lewandowski trailed incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 10 points – 49% to 39% &#8211; Roll Call <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/lewandowski-leads-new-hampshire-gop-senate-primary-field-poll-finds">reported</a>.
Lewandowski had been teasing a senate run for months, saying over the summer that he was “very seriously” considering it, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/corey-lewandowski-says-he-wont-seek-senate-seat-from-nh/2019/12/31/b87ac170-2be7-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html">reported</a> The Washington Post. President Donald Trump appeared to support his former campaign manager, calling him “a fantastic guy” who “would be a great senator.”
The Post reported that New Hampshire’s Republican Party had misgivings about a potential Lewandowski bid, saying the Party worried that such a campaign “would complicate the reelection prospects of the state’s incumbent GOP governor and put the New Hampshire Senate race — a lower-tier pickup opportunity for Republicans — out of realistic reach.”
Lewandowski was fired as Trump’s campaign manager in 2016 after Paul Manafort became campaign chairman. Lewandowski still supports Trump and the president stills seems to support his former campaign manager.
New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Josh Marcus-Blank released a statement following Lewandowski’s announcement, saying the rest of the Republicans running for Shaheen’s seat would “tear each other down in the contentious primary Lewandowski has left behind.”
“Senator Shaheen will continue working across the aisle for New Hampshire, leading efforts to lower prescription drug costs and making sure veterans and their families get the benefits they deserve,” he added, as reported by the Post.
New Hampshire is being eyed by Republicans as a potential senate pickup in 2020, though the prospects are slim. Shaheen won re-election in 2014 with 51% of the vote against former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R), who moved to the Granite State to try and get back to the senate after losing his seat to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about Congressman Jerry Nadler getting trolled during a pointless hearing. Video and partial transcript below:
The news this week has really been great. I mean really, what we&#8217;re watching is this narrative, the right wing&#8217;s fight back against this narrative and win. We can&#8217;t leave Donald Trump out of the mix here, Donald Trump, I think has taught the Right how to fight back a little bit. He&#8217;s taught the Right that it&#8217;s not okay to let the lie go, that whatever the lie is, whether it&#8217;s a lie about the weather, the hurricane, some stupid lie like that, or whether it&#8217;s an important lie about something else, you know, you&#8217;ve got to fight back.
Just remember that even though the Russian collusion thing has now been exposed as an utter hoax, the [inspector general] report is coming out. It&#8217;s going to talk about how this thing started and we may see people exposed, like James Comey and Clapper and John Brennan. We may see them exposed in bad behavior. But remember, it&#8217;s the Left that will make the movie because we&#8217;re stupid. They&#8217;re smart about this, and they&#8217;ll make the movie “Russian Collusion.” It&#8217;ll be Matt Damon running against the clock to stop the Russians from screwing up our election system while Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin in the bathroom.
Then the next generation will think that&#8217;s true. But this week we&#8217;re winning because this week they haven&#8217;t made the movie. It&#8217;s real life, right …
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You know Jerry Nadler, I mean, I don&#8217;t know what he sees when he looks in the mirror but you know, at this point, he is really wasting. We can burn our own money Jerry, you know, we can take our money. I got a lighter, I can take my money out of the bag and just burn it myself. But he&#8217;s going to do it, they&#8217;re not doing anything.
Nancy Pelosi keeps saying, oh we legislate and we investigate. What legislation have they passed that can pass the Senate and get signed by the president? Zippo, none. You know they&#8217;re doing nothing. So it&#8217;s all show, in terms of what they&#8217;re doing.
Politics is not supposed to be like this. Politics is where you sit down with the people you utterly disagree with and, somehow, you work out a compromise always conceding that the majority is going to get more than the minority. That is politics, that&#8217;s democratic politics. And instead we&#8217;re getting these endless stupid investigations.
So they bring in poor Corey Lewandowski, you know he&#8217;s not a guy I&#8217;ve ever had a lot of feeling for, but they bring him on to talk about the Mueller report and he has a letter with him, from the White House, saying he shouldn&#8217;t talk about any private conversations he had with the president because that&#8217;s protected by executive privilege. So he starts out by making this opening statement — here&#8217;s the end of his opening statement:
<blockquote>LEWANDOWSKI: In conclusion, and it&#8217;s sad to say, this country has spent over three years and $40 million taxpayer dollars on these investigations and it&#8217;s now clear that the investigation was populated by many Trump-haters who had their own agenda: To take down a duly elected president of the United States. As for actual collusion or conspiracy, there was none. What there has been, however, is harassment of this president from the day he won the election. We as a nation would be better served if elected officials like yourselves concentrated your efforts to combat the true crises facing our country, as opposed to going down rabbit holes like this hearing.
Instead of focusing on petty and personal politics, the committee focused on solving the challenges of this generation. Imagine how many people we could help, or how many lives we could save. As I stated earlier, I have voluntarily appeared in front of Congress on three separate occasions and spoken to members of the special counsel&#8217;s office for multiple hours. I will continue to be forthright and cooperative and I will be as sincere in my answers as this committee is and its questions.</blockquote>
You know, when you look up at the moral high road and you see Corey Lewandowski, your low road is way, way too low.
Corey Lewandowski is sitting there speaking the truth to these guys, speaking truth to power. You remember that? That&#8217;s a favorite left-wing thing that they never do but talk about a lot. He&#8217;s just making them crazy. So what he does is, every time that — remember each guy only gets &#8230; five minutes to question. So what Lewandowski does is, if they mentioned the Mueller report, he requests a copy of the Mueller report so he won&#8217;t talk until he gets the Muller report and then he keeps referring to this letter from the White House saying he can&#8217;t talk about anything else, and you can see Jerry Nadler and the rest of them just start to go insane. Here&#8217;s a little excerpt of this back and forth.
<blockquote>NADLER: Mr. Lewandowski, is it correct, as is reported in the Mueller report, on June 19, 2017, that you met alone in the Oval Office with the president?
LEWANDOWSKI: Is there a book and page number you can reference me to, please? I don&#8217;t have a copy of the report in front of me.
NADLER: Volume II, page 90.
LEWANDOWSKI: Could you read the exact language of the report, sir? I don&#8217;t have it available to me.
NADLER: I don&#8217;t think I need to do that and I have limited time. Did you meet alone with the president on that date?
LEWANDOWSKI: Congressman, I&#8217;d like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report so I can follow along.
NADLER: You don’t have a copy with you?
LEWANDOWSKI: I don&#8217;t have a copy of the report, congressman.
UNNAMED VOICE: Mr. Chairman, I request that the clock be stopped while this charade is sorted out.
NADLER: Do you not have an independent recollection of whether you met with the president on that date?
LEWANDOWSKI: Congressman, I&#8217;m just trying to find in the Muller report where it states that.
CICILLINE: Mr. Chairman, is it appropriate for a witness to refuse to answer a question and instead demand that we reference and point him to — I ask that that the Mueller report be closed and the witness be directed to answer the question.</blockquote>
So that&#8217;s obviously driving them absolutely crazy.
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White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly grabbed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (then an informal advisor) by the collar and tried to have him forcibly removed from the West Wing last February, says a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-lewandowski-fight-secret-service.html">report</a> published Monday. The &#8220;near brawl,&#8221; which allegedly took place outside the Oval Office, was cut short by the intervention of Secret Service agents, sources claim.
Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, openly criticized Lewandowski to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 21, a day when victims&#8217; families of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were invited to the White House for an event in the East Room with Trump. Lewandowski was at the White House for a scheduled meeting with the president.
&#8220;Mr. Kelly criticized Mr. Lewandowski to Mr. Trump for making so much money off the president in the form of his contract with the super PAC supporting the president&#8217;s re-election. Mr. Kelly also expressed his anger that Mr. Lewandowski had been criticizing him on television for his handling of the security clearance controversy related to Mr. Porter,&#8221; reports the Times.
The two men then left the room when the president took a phone call, and that&#8217;s when the altercation broke out, sources say:
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As Mr. Kelly walked toward a hallway leading back to his office, he called to someone to remove Mr. Lewandowski from the building. The two then began arguing, with Mr. Lewandowski speaking loudly. Mr. Kelly grabbed Mr. Lewandowski by his collar, trying to push him against a wall, according to a person with direct knowledge of the episode.
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Lewandowski did not reciprocate the physicality from Mr. Kelly, the Times reports.
Secret Service agents were quickly called over and intervened accordingly, sources claim. &#8220;Ultimately, the two men agreed to move on,&#8221; notes the report.
Since the incident, West Wing staffers have made a concerted effort to keep Kelly and Lewandowski, who&#8217;s still very much connected to President Trump, at a distance from one another.
Lewandowski is currently writing a book concerning Trump and his &#8220;Deep State&#8221; enemies, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency.&#8221;
Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-edges-toward-new-cold-war-era-with-china-1539355839?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1">reported</a> that Kelly &#8220;got into a physical altercation&#8221; with a Chinese official last year during Trump&#8217;s visit to Beijing.
&#8220;The official was reportedly attempting to access the nuclear football, a 45-pound aluminum briefcase that&#8217;s always by the president&#8217;s side, carried by a military aide. It contains information and instructions for the president on how to conduct a nuclear strike,&#8221; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-china-official-nuclear-football-2018-10">reports</a> Business Insider. Kelly refused to accept an apology from the Chinese official &#8220;unless it occurred under a US flag in Washington, DC.&#8221;
It was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/us/politics/immigration-kelly-bolton-shouting-match.html?module=inline">reported</a> last week that Kelly got into a heated profanity-laced spat with national security advisor John Bolton over immigration.
&#8220;The blowup between John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump&#8217;s chief of staff, and John R. Bolton, his national security adviser, was loud enough to be overheard by several officials in the West Wing. It erupted as the president &#8212; disappointed by new government data showing that his restrictive immigration policies have failed to discourage migrants from seeking entry into the United States &#8212; is grasping to resolve a problem that has bedeviled his administration,&#8221; the report says.
Neither Kelly nor Lewandowski have commented on the reported altercation.

‘NEAR BRAWL’: John Kelly And Corey Lewandowski Got Into Physical Altercation Outside Oval Office, Says Report

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Marco Rubio, James Comey, the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association.
These are but a few of the people and institutions who, in trying to discredit Donald Trump, have managed only to disgrace themselves. 
It&#8217;s one of the most striking phenomena of the Trump era: not only do attacks on him not stick, they rebound on the attacker. 
Call it the <a href="http://politicaldictionary.com/words/teflon-coated-presidency/">Teflon</a> boomerang presidency.
Donald Trump has &#8220;small hands,&#8221; Rubio quipped at a February 2016 rally. &#8220;And you know what they say about men with small hands.&#8221; 
Two weeks later Rubio conceded defeat, and exited the race.
Trump&#8217;s face is &#8220;slightly orange, with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles,&#8221; wrote Comey, who was the previous head of the FBI, in his tell-all high school memoir.
&#8220;Donald Trump is contagious,&#8221; The Washington Post&#8217;s Karen Tumulty correctly observed. &#8220;He turns everyone he touches into Donald Trump. Now he has done it to James B. Comey.&#8221;
&#8220;Like a porn star says when about to have sex with Trump: let&#8217;s get this over with,&#8221; said comedian Michelle Wolf as she opened her performance at the White House Correspondents&#8217; dinner on April 28.
Two days later, a news headline in The New York Times read, &#8220;Did Michelle Wolf Kill the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner?&#8221;
So, how has Donald Trump managed to withstand relentless attacks from the most accomplished and capable Democrats, Republicans, journalists, comedians &#8212; everyone?
There&#8217;s likely more than one answer.
With Rubio, the senator disgraced himself in the purest sense of the word. Here was a polite, well-spoken, honorable senator, who decided to speak like a rude, crass, boorish reality TV star. In dissing Trump, Rubio violated the public image of himself that he himself had constructed. 
Trump has no such problem because the image he has crafted is one of a rude, crass, boorish reality TV star. It&#8217;s what we expect, so we&#8217;re not surprised, or even particularly unsettled when he acts in character.
Anti-Trump news coverage at outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, has, I believe, also had a Rubio effect. These mainstream outlets have long told Americans that they are objective, neutral, and just interested in the facts &#8212; character claims that they&#8217;ve violated in their undeniable <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/09/12/study-91-percent-of-recent-network-trump-coverage-has-been-negative/">zeal</a> to discredit the president.
Comey, like Rubio, violated the public image of himself that he built over decades. A G-Man with integrity of the highest order cannot imitate Donald Trump and still have integrity. Pick one.
But what about the cases of Steve Bannon, Jeff Flake, and the NFL? None of them, in their showdowns with Trump, lost because of a dissonance between their actions and their carefully constructed public image. 
Before Bannon told &#8220;journalist&#8221; Michael Wolff, &#8220;They&#8217;re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,&#8221; the public already saw him as a calculating, even conniving, political operative.
And yet, we&#8217;ve barely heard from Bannon since. One reason, particular to Bannon, is that his notoriety was directly related to having Trump&#8217;s ear. No ear, no PR. Also, Bannon drew first blood. This gave Trump, in the public&#8217;s mind, full rights to hit back. And hit back he did.
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/trump-statement-steve-bannon/index.html">counter-attack</a> was devastating, savage, and final. He is a schoolyard brawler, and he knows how to cripple his opponents, how to strike where it hurts most.
Which is what he did to the NFL. Trump picked a fight with one of the richest and most beloved institutions in America, and he <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/05/23/nfl-national-anthem-policy-kneeling-protest/637050002/">won</a> because he dictated the terms: the American flag, something most Americans and most NFL fans care about even more than football.
It was a winning issue.
Finally, there&#8217;s the Jeff Flake strategy. There may be no more vocal Republican critic of the president in Congress. But his outspokenness is his weakness, and that of so many of the Defenders Of Democracy&#8482; crew &#8212; Democrats and #NeverTrump conservatives alike. 
They just sound so . . . breathless, even whiny. 
&#8220;It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies,&#8221; Flake said on the Senate floor in January, referring to Trump tweeting that the &#8220;FAKE NEWS&#8221; New York Times, NBC, ABC, CNN, and CBS are &#8220;the enemy of the American people.&#8221;
Flake&#8217;s hyperbolic speech ended with a hymn from Mormon missionary John Jacques:
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Then say, what is truth? &#8216;Tis the last and the first,
For the limits of time it steps o&#8217;er.
Tho the heavens depart and the earth&#8217;s fountains burst.
Truth, the sum of existence, will weather the worst,
Eternal&#8230; unchanged&#8230; evermore.
</blockquote>
Eye-roll. With enemies like this, Trump doesn&#8217;t need allies.
So, if fighting dirty backfired on Rubio and the press, if <a href="https://resistancehole.clickhole.com/">waxing philosophical</a> makes the public ignore the #Resistance and #NeverTrump, if the president preemptively strikes vulnerable targets and, when attacked first, has the public&#8217;s green light to counterstrike, who can win a cage fight against Donald Trump?
Donald Trump.
He is his only consistently successful opponent. 
His crass <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317">joke</a> about John McCain during the campaign, his <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-keeps-up-attacks-on-judge-gonzalo-curiel-1464911442">saying</a> Judge Gonzalo Curiel&#8217;s &#8220;Mexican heritage&#8221; presented a conflict, his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html">criticism</a> of Khizr Khan. These hurt Trump.
Americans like a fighter. But they don&#8217;t like a bully. And Trump looks like one when he picks the wrong target or punches too hard, or both.
The president&#8217;s opponents would do well to follow the advice Corey Lewandowski gave to Republicans: 
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Let-Trump-Be-Inside-Presidency/dp/1546083308">Let Trump be Trump</a>. 
It&#8217;s how he keeps winning. If his story ends as a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/04/30/donald-trump-tragic-hero/">tragic hero&#8217;s</a> would, it&#8217;s also how he&#8217;ll lose.

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Singer Joy Villa has taken her complaint against former Donald Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski one step further, filing a report with D.C. police claiming Lewandowski sexually assaulted her during a photo opportunity at Trump International Hotel.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/corey-lewandowski-accused-touching-joy-villa-318420">Villa told Politico last week that</a> she and Lewandowski met at a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; holiday party, thrown for Trump supporters at the president-eponymous D.C. establishment.
When the pair posed for a photo, Villa claims Lewandowski slid his hand around and slapped her bottom. She responded by telling him to keep his digits to himself, only to have Lewandowski slap her bottom again as he &#8220;laughed and walked away.&#8221; She also said that Lewandowski had &#8220;been drinking&#8221; and was in &#8220;bad spirits.&#8221;
&#8220;He grabbed me very boisterously, unexpectedly,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/26/politics/joy-villa-corey-lewandowski-police-report/index.html">Villa told CNN over the weekend</a>, adding that Lewandowski was &#8220;acting like a clown&#8221; and that he &#8220;smacked my ass really hard, almost violent in nature.&#8221; CNN reports that Villa told Lewandowski &#8220;she could report him for sexual harassment,&#8221; but he retorted that &#8220;I work in the private sector.&#8221;
Villa posted the now-infamous photo on Twitter.
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Here&#8217;s the photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CLewandowski_</a> seconds before he slapped my ass, I told him to stop, and then he did it again. I was shocked and embarrassed by his behavior. <a href="https://t.co/61EYvOG4e9">https://t.co/61EYvOG4e9</a> <a href="https://t.co/a8NgLnvCEZ">pic.twitter.com/a8NgLnvCEZ</a>
&#8212; Joy Villa (@Joy_Villa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joy_Villa/status/944420273679454209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
Villa says she spoke with D.C. detectives and they assured her that what she experienced qualified as a sexual assault. She filed the official report on Christmas Eve. She made a statement on Twitter confirming the report.
&#8220;This issue of sexual harassment and sexual assault is a non-partisan issue,&#8221; Villa said. &#8220;Democrat or Republican, all of us should join to combat this.&#8221;
Lewandowski, who was a controversial figure &#8212; to say the least &#8212; during President Trump&#8217;s campaign, now operates a political strategy firm with other Trump operatives, and appears regularly on network news as a &#8220;political analyst.&#8221; Since leaving his job, however, he&#8217;s reportedly maintained a close, personal relationship with the president.

Singer Joy Villa Files Police Report Against Corey Lewandowski Alleging Sexual Assault

On Friday, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/corey-lewandowski-accused-touching-joy-villa-318420">Politico</a> released a piece in which pro-Trump soul singer Joy Villa claims Corey Lewandowski, the president&#8217;s former campaign manager, smacked her on the rear twice during a holiday party at the Trump International Hotel.
According to Villa, after being introduced to Lewandowski by a friend, she was shoved next to him for a picture. After the photo was taken, Lewandowski touched her:
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I&#8217;m wearing this silver suit and stretchy pants, and after the photo, he smacks my ass really hard. &#8230; It was completely demeaning and shocking.
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When Villa remarked, &#8220;half-joking,&#8221; that she could report him for sexual harassment, Lewandowski allegedly replied: &#8220;Go ahead, I work in the private sector.&#8221; She claims he then slapped her rear again.
Villa called the incident &#8220;shocking and gross.&#8221;
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Here&#8217;s the photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CLewandowski_</a> seconds before he slapped my ass, I told him to stop, and then he did it again. I was shocked and embarrassed by his behavior. <a href="https://t.co/61EYvOG4e9">https://t.co/61EYvOG4e9</a> <a href="https://t.co/a8NgLnvCEZ">pic.twitter.com/a8NgLnvCEZ</a>
&#8212; Joy Villa (@Joy_Villa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joy_Villa/status/944420273679454209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Politico reports that a friend of Villa&#8217;s who allegedly saw what happened was able to corroborate the singer&#8217;s story. Additionally, all attempts to contact Lewandowski for comment have been met with radio silence.
Appearing on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on December 13, Villa, who made a splash at the 2017 Grammys by wearing a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; gown, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/13/joy-villa-mulls-run-for-congress-what-to-know-about-pro-trump-singer.html">announced</a> that she&#8217;s mulling a run for Congress.

Joy Villa Claims Corey Lewandowski ‘Smacked’ Her Rear Multiple Times At Holiday Party

&#8220;We ate McDonald&#8217;s six days a week,&#8221; said Corey Lewandowski of his and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump&#8217;s shared diet across the previous presidential campaign season. Fast food was the best option across an exceedingly busy presidential campaign, he said.
Lewandowski reflected on his time working with Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign in remarks to the City Club of Cleveland <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?431951-2/corey-lewandowski-discusses-trump-presidency">last Thursday</a>.
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I could count on one hand the number of times [Donald Trump and I] sat down and had a meal [while we were campaigning together]. We always said we had the best plane, and the worst food, because what we did, and this was the job of the deputy campaign manager &#8212; he had to get the timing exactly right to stop at the McDonald&#8217;s to get the to Filet-o-Fish and the two Big Macs, and if he had a really good day, what we called &#8220;a malted&#8221; which is a called &#8220;a shake&#8221; in the real world, but in New York it&#8217;s called &#8220;a malted&#8221; &#8212; to have that at the plane at the exact same time that we&#8217;d get back to the plane so that [Donald Trump] could eat as we&#8217;re flying to the last event.
That was our life. We ate McDonald&#8217;s six days a week. If we were very, very lucky, which was rare, we might get Chick-Fil-A. If we were really really lucky, [Donald Trump] would say, &#8220;You know what, guys? Maybe we&#8217;ll do Burger King today.&#8221; That was it. Kentucky Fried Chicken was also a staple on the airplane, because he didn&#8217;t want to sit down and take the time and waste his time doing something when he could be doing the next thing, because that&#8217;s what he does. Time was too valuable for us. 
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Watch Lewandowski&#8217;s campaign diet comments below.
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Donald Trump &#8220;outworked&#8221; Hillary Clinton, said Lewandowski:
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To understand the campaign, you have to understand Donald Trump. &#8230; He is the single hardest working individual I have ever had the privilege of being next to. He point-blank outworked Hillary Clinton.
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Political and news media observers will recall that Hillary Clinton informally delegated much of her campaigning to allied news media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, and MSNBC. She was far less active than Trump in terms of campaign events and news media interviews.
Mainstream media, said Lewandowski, resented Trump&#8217;s bypassing of their filters via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Lewandowski: Trump ‘Ate McDonald’s Six Days A Week’

President Trump&#8217;s very public, very bitter feud with James Comey is not letting up despite Trump declaring &#8220;complete vindication&#8221; after Comey&#8217;s testimony. Over the weekend, the Trump-Comey death-match added another disparaging phrase: &#8220;very cowardly.&#8221; In both a tweet by Trump and a statement by a member of his administration, Trump made clear that he believes Comey&#8217;s decision to leak memos he wrote while director of the FBI (which makes those memos property of the U.S. government, not Comey) was potentially illegal and definitely spineless.
&#8220;I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible,&#8221; Trump wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873879934040780801">tweet</a> Sunday morning. &#8220;Totally illegal? Very &#8216;cowardly!'&#8221;
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I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very &#8216;cowardly!&#8217;
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873879934040780801">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-accuses-ex-fbi-director-comey-cowardice-over-131619664.html">AFP</a> notes, Trump&#8217;s description of Comey as a &#8220;cowardly leaker&#8221; is becoming a consistent theme from Team Trump. Two days earlier, Corey Lewandowski, a key member of Trump&#8217;s inner-circle, questioned Comey&#8217;s manhood over his choice to leak his memos indirectly rather than doing it himself. 
&#8220;He gave his notes to a Columbia law professor [Dan Richman] because he wasn&#8217;t man enough to give the notes directly to the media when he wanted them out to the media,&#8221; Lewandowski told NBC&#8217;s morning show Today on Friday. 
While the Democrats hoped that Comey&#8217;s testimony would provide the silver bullet to finally slay Trump, the president came out largely exonerated. The Trump-Russia collusion story collapsed, with Comey making clear that Trump was never under investigation and admitting that Trump actually encouraged him to be thorough. Most legal analysts (the honest ones, at least), including renowned Harvard Law Professor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17410/fact-check-there-case-obstruction-justice-against-ben-shapiro">Alan Dershowitz</a>, have concluded that what Comey claims Trump said to him about the Mike Flynn investigation does not constitute &#8220;obstruction of justice.&#8221;
A day after the testimony, Trump declared &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17339/so-much-winning-trump-celebrates-total-and-joseph-curl">total and complete vindication</a>&#8221; and slammed Comey as a &#8220;leaker,&#8221; tweeting, &#8220;Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication&#8230;and WOW, Comey is a leaker!&#8221;
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Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication&#8230;and WOW, Comey is a leaker!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873120139222306817">June 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s legal team has since <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17360/report-trumps-lawyer-file-complaint-against-comey-james-barrett">threatened to take action against Comey</a> for illegally leaking the memos in order to, as Comey admitted in his testimony, force a special counsel investigation of Trump. Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz said he was going to file a complaint with the Department of Justice, while sources say that Trump&#8217;s representatives are &#8220;actively exploring their options.&#8221; Kasowitz has also <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17317/trump-lawyer-comeys-lying-president-never-asked-ben-shapiro">refuted</a> some of Comey&#8217;s account:
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[T]he president never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone, including suggesting that Mr. Comey &#8220;let Flynn go.&#8221;&#8230; The President also never told Mr. Comey, &#8220;I need loyalty, I expect loyalty&#8221; in form or substance. Of course, the Office of the President is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration, and, from before this President took office to this day, it is overwhelmingly clear that there have been and continue to be those in government who are actively attempting to undermine this administration with selective and illegal leaks of classified information and privileged communications. Mr. Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.
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Now, investigators from the House and Senate have asked to see Comey&#8217;s leaked memos. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/politics/comey-tape-request-congress/index.html">CNN</a> reports:
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House and Senate investigators fired off a series of requests after former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s testimony, seeking memos of his private discussions with President Donald Trump and any records the White House kept of their discussion &#8212; including audio recordings.
The leaders of the House Russia investigation, Reps. Michael Conaway, a Texas Republican, and Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, sent a request Friday directly to Comey for copies of his memos. They sent a separate request to Trump&#8217;s White House counsel, Don McGahn, for any record the White House had of their meetings.
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In other words, the Trump-Comey feud is really just getting started.

Trump Not Letting Up On ‘Cowardly’ Comey. At All.

Remember Corey Lewandowski, President Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager who became a household name after he faced charges of battery against then-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields? He might soon be in the White House to lead the president&#8217;s war room.
According to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/30/trump-aides-dreading-a-return-of-trainwreck-corey-lewandowski">The Daily Beast</a>, Lewandowski and David Bossie, the Trump campaign&#8217;s deputy manager, are believed to be leading candidates to be the &#8220;crisis managers&#8221; to handle the fallout of scandals plaguing the Trump presidency.
Here are five things you need to know about Lewandowski.
1. Lewandowski <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Corey_Lewandowski">worked</a> on a few congressional campaigns prior to the Trump campaign. He worked on Rep. <a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/peter-torkildsen/T000314">Peter </a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/peter-torkildsen/T000314">Torkildsen</a>&#8216;s (R-MA) campaign and was the campaign manager for the re-election campaigns of Rep. <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000081">Robert Ney</a> (R-OH) and Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bob_Smith_(New_Hampshire)">Bob Smith</a> (R-NH). Ney won re-election in a district that leans Democrat, but Smith lost in the primary to John Sununu. In the latter instance, Lewandowski hammered Sununu for going to an American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee fundraiser.
&#8220;If that is the type of person Congressman Sununu feels should be contributing to his campaign, then I think that may call into question his views on terrorism,&#8221; Lewandowski <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-lewandowski-an-unlikely-pair-of-kindred-spirits/2016/03/30/d82a58ca-f511-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html?utm_term=.474a68bbb556">said</a>. Sununu&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/21/us/behind-the-sununu-surname.html">ancestry</a> is part-Lebanese.
2. Lewandowski first became connected to Trump through Bossie in 2014. It was Bossie who suggested that Lewandowski meet the future president; they met at an Americans for Prosperity event, where Lewandowski was working at the time.
&#8220;He talks about all the things that he wants to do, and I&#8217;m listening, and he&#8217;s telling me about what his vision is to change the country, and I&#8217;m instantly &#8212; just enamored, would be the word,&#8221; Lewandowski told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-lewandowski-an-unlikely-pair-of-kindred-spirits/2016/03/30/d82a58ca-f511-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html?utm_term=.474a68bbb556">The Washington Post</a>.
3. An incident between Lewandowski and Fields made national news during the 2016 presidential primary. As Trump was being escorted out of a campaign event, Fields attempted to ask the future president a question about affirmative action; Lewandowski suddenly intervened by grabbing Fields&#8217; arm and yanking her downward. The Trump campaign proceeded to deny Fields&#8217; allegation and smear her, even as <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4486/7-important-lessons-about-trump-campaign-ben-shapiro">video evidence</a> proved Fields&#8217; story to be correct. Lewandowski did face charges of battery at one point but those charges were dropped due to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4937/ben-shapiro-responds-trumps-campaign-manager-not-james-barrett">prosecutorial discretion</a>.
4. Lewandowski was <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/corey-lewandowski-trump">fired</a> from his position as Trump&#8217;s campaign manager in June. Trump&#8217;s daughter, Ivanka, told her father that she would leave the campaign if Lewandowski stayed on board. Naturally, Ivanka won.
Ivanka had been lobbying for Lewandowski&#8217;s ouster for months, but her threat was prompted by allegations of Lewandowski circulating stories that portrayed her husband, Jared Kushner, in a bad light.
5. White House officials are not happy about the prospect of Lewandowksi joining the administration. The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/30/trump-aides-dreading-a-return-of-trainwreck-corey-lewandowski">quotes</a> one White House official as calling Lewandowski&#8217;s potential hiring a &#8220;trainwreck&#8221; and another saying, &#8220;I gagged when I [first] heard that,&#8221; since Lewandowski &#8220;would be a hothead in a [White House] that needs the opposite.&#8221;
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Since the campaign, Lewandowski has made his fair share of enemies within Trump&#8217;s inner circle, especially chief of staff Reince Priebus, who Lewandowski casually trash-talks about in private. Other close Trump aides, such as his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, object to Lewandowski&#8217;s style and temperament. The former Trump campaign manager is also openly loathed by Trump&#8217;s longtime political adviser Roger Stone, who calls Lewandowski a &#8220;cocksucker.&#8221;
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The sources cited in the article suggest that Lewandowski is more likely to have a role in aiding Trump outside the White House than in it; however, it&#8217;s clear that many inside the White House would be displeased at Lewandowski&#8217;s hiring.
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5 Things You Need To Know About Corey Lewandowski, The Guy Trump Might Be Bringing In To Lead His War Room

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According to <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/867974830632685568">Fox News</a>, two advisors to President Trump said that when he returns from his trip overseas, a &#8220;war room&#8221; to attack his critics will be formed. Two people rumored to head such an apparatus? David Bossie and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
The advisors intimated that a decision has not yet been made as to whether the two men would join the administration or lead the charge from outside the administration.
The primary issues Trump wants to address are leakers in the federal government and the fallout from the various Russia investigations led by Congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
One advisor warned, &#8220;It&#8217;s all hands on deck,&#8221; while the other threatened, “There are going to be some changes&#8221; to the president&#8217;s staff.
Rather than the reduction in staff that has been rumored, one advisor countered, &#8220;It is about bolstering and adding on to the staff.”
Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.axios.com/trumps-street-fighters-2421476130.html">Axios</a> quoted one Trump ally asserting, &#8220;The White House is embracing the fight, which is going to last as long as Donald Trump is president. We&#8217;re getting street fighters ready to go.&#8221; Axios added, “Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon broke off from the trip and returned early, in part to quarterback planning. Numerous officials are involved. There was extra urgency because fired FBI Director Jim Comey had been expected to testify on the Hill next week. But that has been postponed so he can first meet privately with special counsel Robert Mueller.”
Mark Kasowitz is leading the legal team focusing on the investigations. One advisor said Kasowitz is &#8220;ready to rumble&#8221; with the President&#8217;s critics.
Lewandowski told Tucker Carlson on Fox News, &#8220;My loyalty is to the president and the agenda he ran on. If I can help the president do that, of course.&#8221;

Trump Plans ‘War Room’ To Attack Critics

President Trump, disenchanted with his staff as he is embroiled in one media flurry after another, often precipitated by leaks from within his administration, is reportedly flirting with the idea of bringing his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski aboard to help right the ship.
Lewandowski, who lost his job to campaign chairman Paul Manafort in the summer of 2016, was seen in the West Wing lobby on Tuesday, although he would not confirm whether he met with Trump.
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-scandals-miller-bossie-lewandowski-238520">Politico</a> reports that one White House official said Trump has discussed bringing the combative Lewandowski back; Lewandowski recently resigned from his lobbying shop, Avenue Strategies, after <a href="http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/332009-lewandowski-leaves-avenue-strategies-report">rumors surfaced</a> he was selling access to Trump and participating in lobbying activities without proper registration.
Avenue Strategies&#8217; co-founder, <a href="http://thehill.com/person/barry-bennett">Barry Bennett</a>, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-04/lewandowski-breaks-with-partner-amid-reports-of-foreign-clients">said</a>, &#8220;No matter how much work we do, it&#8217;s always going to be Lewandowski in the headline.&#8221;
One GOP operative informed Politico that Lewandowski has told people that Trump wants him to &#8220;bring order&#8221; to Trump&#8217;s feuding White House staff. The same operative stated that Lewandowski has been bragging about helping &#8220;broker&#8221; conversations between the White House and other prospective new staff, although Lewandowski denied that accusation, snapping, &#8220;I have never said the things you are reporting.&#8221;
If Trump&#8217;s combative buddy Roger Stone has his way, it seems he would prefer Lewandowski to return; Stone opined, &#8220;I&#8217;ve known the president for 40 years, I consider myself a hard-core Trump loyalist. I look at the White House staff list and I know two people on the staff. He has surrounded himself with quislings, and they leak like a sieve. He beat the establishment and then he immediately hired them, that doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;
Lewandowski&#8217;s well-known mantra for Trump was, &#8220;Let Trump be Trump.&#8221; If he is going to be restored to a position alongside Trump, there may be more Trump tweets than ever before.

GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER: Trump Brings Back Lewandowski

On ABC&#8217;s This Week, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign manager Robby Mook claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed Russia&#8217;s intelligence apparatus to hack the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton loyalist John Podesta in order to politically assist then presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Joining Trump&#8217;s first presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a discussion hosted by Jonathan Karl, Mook pushed innuendo of cooperation between Trump and Putin to subvert America&#8217;s presidential election:

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And what&#8217;s particularly frightening to me about the situation is that these phone calls that Trump associates had with Russian agents were picked up because the NSA taps these Russian agents regularly. This isn&#8217;t speculation. These are phone calls that were actually picked up. And what&#8217;s also scary is that you saw the president kind of deflect the question. He won&#8217;t answer it. And the more we learn about this, the closer and closer it gets to President Trump.&#8221;
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Asked by Karl if he believed the &#8220;Trump campaign was coordinating with the Russians,&#8221; Mook called for a &#8220;9/11-style bipartisan independent commission&#8221; to investigate. &#8220;This can never happen again,&#8221; he added.
Mook alleged that Putin assisted Trump&#8217;s political campaign due to resentment of Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;courage&#8221; in speaking out against Russian belligerence in Ukraine&#8217; Crimean peninsula:

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MOOK: But this is the problem, Jonathan, is blame the victim. It&#8217;s to say, OK, well, in fact the Russians stole John Podesta&#8217;s e-mails. They put them out for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton. That&#8217;s absolutely correct. And my point is &#8212; and I think the point of the national intelligence community and everybody else &#8212; is that&#8217;s wrong. We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.
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TRUMP: Does anybody really think that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Russia than Donald Trump? Does anybody in this room really believe that, OK?
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KARL:: You weren&#8217;t in room but I imagine you think that.
MOOK: I absolutely think that. You know, the reason Vladimir Putin did this is because Hillary Clinton spoke out against him. She spoke out against frankly the same kind of behavior that we&#8217;re starting to hear Donald Trump hint at. And when Donald Trump has been asked about Vladimir Putin, he&#8217;s praised him. He&#8217;s called him a strong leader. Gave him an A rating. When he was asked on the O&#8217;Reilly show about Putin&#8217;s tactics of killing journalists, of intimidating journalists, of locking up and killing his opponents, he said that &#8212; you know, he compared that to America. He said we&#8217;re not that innocent either. 
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The problem is that Vladimiur Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He&#8217;s been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that and she paid a price because Vladimir Putin interceded in this election.
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Mook repeated his narrative on Twitter:
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Still need an independent, bi-partisan commission like we had to get the facts on 9-11.
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Several times throughout the segment, Karl pushed the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-blames-russia-putin-wikileaks-rele/">Clinton campaign&#8217;s narrative</a> of consensus among all national intelligence agencies that Russia was behind the hacking into and release of emails from the DNC and Podesta, asking Lewandowski, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t doubt that the e-mails, the hacking of the e-mails, that was done by the Russians?&#8221;

Karl presents himself as an objective and non-partisan news media personality.

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