1. Corey R Lewandowski is an American political operative, lobbyist, political commentator and author who is politically associated with Donald Trump.
62 Facts About Corey Lewandowski
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Corey Lewandowski was the first campaign manager of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and was dismissed by Trump during the Republican Primary.
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Corey Lewandowski later became a political commentator for One America News Network, Fox News and CNN.
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Corey Lewandowski ran unsuccessfully for office twice, once in Massachusetts and once in New Hampshire.
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On December 21,2016, Corey Lewandowski co-founded Avenue Strategies, a lobbying firm, in an office near the White House.
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Corey Lewandowski graduated in 1991 from Lowell Catholic High School, a private, not-for-profit, college-preparatory school in Lowell.
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Corey Lewandowski received a master's degree in political science from American University in Washington, DC, in 1997.
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In 1994, while an undergraduate student, Corey Lewandowski ran for a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary.
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Corey Lewandowski received 143 votes, falling short of the 150 votes needed to win the party's nomination for the ballot.
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Also while a student in 1997, Lewandowski interned for Massachusetts State Senator Steven C Panagiotakos, a Democrat.
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From December 1997 to February 2001, Corey Lewandowski worked as an administrative assistant for Ohio Republican Bob Ney, a US Congressman.
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In 2007, before Ney was sentenced on federal corruption charges arising from the Abramoff lobbying scandal, Corey Lewandowski wrote a letter to the presiding judge, saying that Ney was a mentor and "surrogate father" to him and asking for leniency in sentencing.
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In 1999, while working for Ney, Corey Lewandowski brought a loaded handgun in a laundry bag into the Longworth House Office Building.
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Corey Lewandowski said it was an accident, that he forgot the gun was in the bag when he put the laundry in it.
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From 2003 to 2004, Corey Lewandowski was executive director of the New England Seafood Producers Association.
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From 2004 to 2012, Corey Lewandowski worked for Schwartz MSL, a strategic communication and engagement firm where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he served as director of public affairs from September 2004 until July 2012.
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Corey Lewandowski was registered as a lobbyist for Schwartz MSL on behalf of Passport Systems in 2011, lobbying on homeland security issues.
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Corey Lewandowski represented two other clients: health care software company Logical Images and solar-power company Borrego Solar.
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Corey Lewandowski graduated from the New Hampshire police academy in 2006 and worked from 2006 to 2010 as a seasonal marine patrol officer trainee with the New Hampshire Division of Safety Services.
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In 2008, Corey Lewandowski began working for Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-backed advocacy group.
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Corey Lewandowski's period working for Americans for Prosperity overlapped with his tenure as a marine patrol officer trainee and registered federal lobbyist.
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Corey Lewandowski was Americans for Prosperity's New Hampshire director, and East Coast regional director before becoming the national director of voter registration, a position he held until January 2015.
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In 2012, while still working for Americans for Prosperity, Corey Lewandowski unsuccessfully ran for town treasurer of Windham, New Hampshire.
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Corey Lewandowski first met Trump in April 2014 at a political event in New Hampshire.
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In January 2015, six months before Trump announced his campaign, Corey Lewandowski was invited to Trump Tower, where he accepted an offer from Trump to become campaign manager.
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Corey Lewandowski's salary was $20,000 per month.
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When Lewandowski was hired, Trump's political staff consisted of three people: his lawyer Michael D Cohen, veteran operative Roger Stone, and aide Sam Nunberg.
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Corey Lewandowski was identified in the George Papadopoulos court documents as the "High-Ranking Campaign Official".
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On March 19,2016, during a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, Corey Lewandowski drew criticism for his handling of a protester.
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In September 2021, Corey Lewandowski attended a charity dinner at the Westgate Las Vegas hotel.
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In September 2022, Corey Lewandowski was charged with misdemeanor battery in Clark County, Nevada court in connection with the incident.
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Corey Lewandowski had tasked Stuart Jolly and Michael Glassner with handling the issue.
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Later that morning on June 20,2016, Trump's campaign announced that it was parting ways with Corey Lewandowski; according to reports, Corey Lewandowski was dismissed, although Donald Trump Jr.
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On June 19,2017, Corey Lewandowski joined President Trump in the Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting.
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Corey Lewandowski arranged for Sessions to visit him because he did not want to be publicly recorded visiting the Department of Justice.
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Corey Lewandowski did so as he felt Dearborn was working in the government and had a better relationship with Sessions than he had.
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On June 19,2017, Corey Lewandowski again met Trump one-on-one in the Oval Office.
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Trump declared that if Sessions would not meet Corey Lewandowski, Corey Lewandowski should tell Sessions that Sessions was fired.
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Right after the meeting, Corey Lewandowski gave Trump's message to Dearborn to pass to Sessions.
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In September 2019, Corey Lewandowski was called to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
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The Pentagon later prevented Corey Lewandowski from being seated and then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin fired Corey Lewandowski as part of a purge of the Pentagon's advisory boards to derail Trump's last-minute installation of political loyalists.
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Days after Corey Lewandowski left the Trump campaign, he was hired by the cable news network CNN as a political commentator.
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In July 2016, Corey Lewandowski defended Trump who had been criticized after tweeting a graphic that labeled Hillary Clinton the "most corrupt candidate" alongside a pile of cash and a six-pointed star evoking the Star of David.
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Corey Lewandowski's statement was criticized by the other panelists, Angela Rye and Bakari Sellers.
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On November 11,2016, Corey Lewandowski resigned as a CNN commentator amid speculations that he would play a role in the Trump administration.
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On October 2,2019, Corey Lewandowski appeared in an interview on Fox Business Network in which he appeared to repeatedly slur his words.
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Corey Lewandowski was fired from OANN on July 31,2017, for appearing on news networks outside of OANN.
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Avenue Strategies' office "overlooks the White House", and Corey Lewandowski has "relatively unimpeded access" to President Trump either by phone or in person at the White House.
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Corey Lewandowski did not formally register as a lobbyist as he did not consider himself to be a lobbyist.
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On May 3,2017, Public Citizen, a "government-ethics group, asked the US Department of Justice to investigate whether Corey Lewandowski should have registered as a foreign or domestic lobbyist".
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On May 12,2017, eight days after leaving Avenue Strategies, Corey Lewandowski incorporated Corey Lewandowski Strategic Advisors in Delaware, which, as an advisory firm, does not register as a lobbyist or disclose its clients.
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Corey Lewandowski then sought to recruit David Bossie and George Gigicos.
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Corey Lewandowski was reported to be working as a lobbyist for Turnberry Solutions LLC, though he denied having any involvement with the firm.
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On June 19,2018, Corey Lewandowski appeared on Fox News alongside Democratic strategist Zac Petkanas.
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When Petkanas mentioned a case of a 10-year-old immigrant girl with Down syndrome who had been forcibly taken away from her mother under the Trump administration family separation policy and allegedly put in a cage, Corey Lewandowski responded "womp, womp", which angered Petkanas and received widespread criticism from various sources.
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On June 20,2018, Corey Lewandowski was dropped by Leading Authorities, Inc.
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At a Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on August 15, Trump praised Corey Lewandowski and encouraged him to enter the race.
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On December 31,2019, Corey Lewandowski announced he would not run for Senate in New Hampshire saying, "After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate," in a tweet.
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Corey Lewandowski said in the tweet, "I am certain I would have won".
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On October 7,2024, The Guardian reported that Corey Lewandowski had been told to focus on being a surrogate in New Hampshire after effectively losing an internal power struggle for control of the campaign.
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Corey Lewandowski met his future wife Alison Hardy when he was in ninth grade and she was in eighth grade.
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That same month, conservative media outlet American Greatness reported that Corey Lewandowski was having an extramarital affair with South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, for whom he had long been a political advisor.