Lewandowski Claims He Shared Anti-Manafort NY Times Piece to Prove Paper Was Biased
After apparently sharing a New York Times piece with the intent to shame his successor, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski insisted that he was actually trying to attack The Times.
Lewandowski shared on Twitter Sunday, without proviso or comment, a Times story accusing new Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort of receiving $12.7 million in cash payouts from Ukraine’s corrupt, formerly pro-Putin government.
Giving multiple reports of the two men’s fractious and troubled relationship while working together on the Trump campaign, the tweet was widely interpreted as a dig at Manafort’s expense. But Lewandowski, now a CNN commentator, insisted on New Day Monday morning that it was actually an attack on The Times.
.@CLewandowski_ calls NYTimes front page coverage of Trump campaign’s Paul Manfort’s ties to Ukraine unfair https://t.co/QZS6FoZcGD
— New Day (@NewDay) August 15, 2016
“Why did you decide to tweet that little tidbit?” asked host Alisyn Camerota.
“It goes exactly to the point I just made,” he argued. “The media is now focusing on a private person who had a private business model, which no one says is anything illegal about what he did– and as a matter of fact, he’s saying he didn’t receive the money. But Cheryl Mills, the chief of staff to the State Department, doesn’t make the front page of The New York Times, when she’s doing personal favors… so she can interview people for the Clinton Foundation?”
“It wasn’t meant to somehow denigrate Paul Manafort?” asked Camerota.
“No, of course not,” Lewandowski responded.
Watch above, via CNN.
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