Corey Lewandowski spurns Trump administration to start consulting firm
Source: The Guardian
Corey Lewandowski, the controversial former campaign manager for Donald Trump, announced on Wednesday that he will not take a job in the next administration, and instead will launch a political consulting firm based in Washington.
The venture, Avenue Strategies, will sit steps away from the White House and provide consulting services with an eye on advancing Trumps proposed agenda. Barry Bennett, a former Trump adviser, will form the business alongside Lewandowski.
The news followed reports that Lewandowski who despite being fired from Trumps campaign in June had remained in his inner circle was presented with a range of potential posts in the next White House. Lewandowski met with Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner on Monday to discuss possible roles in the administration, according to Politico, but was not offered the job he sought of senior adviser to the president.
I will always be President-elect Trumps biggest supporter, Lewandowski said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the firm. After considering multiple opportunities within the administration, I informed him and his team I think I can best help him outside the formal structure of the government. I very much look forward to doing that every day.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/21/corey-lewandowski-consulting-firm-trump-administration
Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Wednesday 21 December 2016 18.53 GMT
msongs
(67,462 posts)HAB911
(8,922 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)Corey Lewandowski is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump as much as anyone.
He is poster child anti-establishment, drain the swamp guy.
Yet, once Trump won, didn't want the anti-establishment. Didn't want drain the swamp.
Didn't want Corey.
Trump used Corey to get into WH and now discards him for establishment swamp people.
True bait and switch.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)He's going to be a lobbyist with direct ties to Trump and the Republican Party.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)lunatica
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