Lewandowski Chastises Media: They ‘Took Everything That Donald Trump Said So Literally’

The former campaign manager for Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign nonchalantly said Thursday that the media was wrong to always take Trump’s comments literally.

“The strangest criticism of the media… was by Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski,” reported The Washington Post in a story on a post-election panel at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government “His complaint: Journalists accurately reported what Trump said.”

“This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally,” Lewandowski said. “The American people didn’t. They understood it.”

“They understood that sometimes– when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar– you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up,” the now-CNN contributor concluded.

Lewandowski’s comments came the same day that fellow Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said that, “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”

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