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This week, we\u2019re highlighting some of the crooks, cranks, and convicts that make up Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA GOP. As Trump eyes Corey Lewandowski for a role in the GOP Convention, DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Corey Lewandowski is the latest MAGA reject returning to Trump’s orbit, with a resume that includes criminal charges for battery against a journalist and a police complaint for sexual assault. Trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel to staff up his campaign with unemployable lowlifes like Lewandowski who are desperate enough to work for a loser like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Corey Lewandowski is not only helping out Trump\u2019s campaign, he\u2019s on the shortlist to help run the Republican National Convention \u2014 despite facing battery charges and allegations of physically assaulting a journalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAides to former President Donald J. Trump are discussing getting Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump\u2019s former campaign manager who was shoved out of a pro-Trump super PAC in 2021, involved in the Republican National Convention, according to two people briefed on the discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

InDepthNH<\/a>: \u201cThe Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, filed as a candidate for the Republican Presidential Primary in New Hampshire Monday saying if elected he would bring down utility prices for Granite Staters by building a pipeline. \u2026 Accompanying him at the desk for the signing of paperwork was Corey Lewandowski, who was 2016 campaign director for Trump and continues to be a political operative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cLewandowski was also charged with battery in 2016 after yanking the arm of a reporter, Michelle Fields, at a Trump campaign event. The charges were later dropped, but Lewandowski, who at the time was serving as Trump\u2019s campaign manager, claimed the incident never happened before video emerged confirming that it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump and his team have a long history of attacking the press, including repeatedly calling the media the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cIn a particularly disturbing conversation this week, Trump\u2019s former top political strategist, Steve Bannon, and former National Security Council adviser, Kash Patel, openly discussed plans to target the press. Bannon, who underscored that such promises are \u2018not just rhetoric\u2019 and that they are \u2018absolutely dead serious\u2019 about seeking revenge against journalists, asked Patel, who would likely serve in a second Trump administration, whether he could \u2018deliver the goods.\u2019 Patel responded affirmatively, vowing that a re-empowered Trump would indeed \u2018come after\u2019 the press.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump lashed out anew Monday at the news media, calling it \u2018the true Enemy of the People,\u2019 and he again blamed what he called \u2018fraudulent\u2019 reporting for anger that has led to a spate of recent violence in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cMainstream media outlets are \u2018not only dishonest and corrupt,\u2019 the former president said, but \u2018they are truly, according to a recent poll, the enemy of the people.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNBC<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump told Lesley Stahl he bashes press \u2018to demean you and discredit you so … no one will believe\u2019 negative stories about him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c[Trump] also returned to scathing attacks on the news media just one week after a gunman killed five journalists at a Maryland newspaper. He derided the press as \u2018fake news,\u2019 \u2018bad people\u2019 and \u2018so damn dishonest.\u2019 \u2018They\u2019re fake,\u2019 he said, pointing at the press area in the arena. \u2018These are really bad people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump blames media for ‘anger’ in country amid mail bomb campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cIn urging the crowd to vote for Representative Greg Gianforte, who is running for re-election and who was sentenced to anger management classes and community service for assaulting a reporter last spring, Mr. Trump jokingly warned the crowd to \u2018never wrestle him.\u2019 \u2018I had heard he body-slammed a reporter,\u2019 Mr. Trump said, noting that he was initially concerned that Mr. Gianforte would lose in a special election last May. \u2018I said, \u2018Wait a minute. I know Montana pretty well; I think it might help him.\u2019 And it did.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cA second Trump administration will \u2018come after\u2019 people in the media in the courts, an ally says.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s circle is filled with election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and convicted felons. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump eyes convicts and conspiracists for 2024 reunion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSidelined characters from former President Trump’s past campaigns \u2014 \u2018crazies,\u2019 some of his top advisers call them \u2014 are reattaching themselves to his inner circle now that he’s locked up the Republican nomination. \u2026 ex-advisers, conspiracy theorists and convicted felons are now knocking on the campaign’s door \u2014 and some are getting in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cPaul Manafort, a top adviser to Donald J. Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign who was pardoned by the former president at the end of his White House term, is in discussions to return to help with the Republican National Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr. Manafort was found guilty in late August 2018 of a range of financial crimes, including tax and bank fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn September 2018, Mr. Manafort pleaded guilty to additional charges brought by Mr. Mueller and agreed to cooperate. But as the case proceeded, Mr. Mueller said that Mr. Manafort had not been truthful in his cooperation, breaching that plea deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cFormer president Donald Trump is preparing to bring back into his campaign fold a man convicted of multiple crimes and whom a bipartisan Senate report labeled a \u2018grave counterintelligence threat\u2019 because of his ties to a Russian spy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cHeadache for campaign team as Trump gets the band back together\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald J. Trump recently told aides to hire Laura Loomer, a far-right and anti-Muslim activist with a history of expressing bigoted views, for a campaign role, according to four people familiar with the plans. Mr. Trump met with Ms. Loomer recently and directed advisers to give her a role in support of his candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cThey Helped Trump Plan a Coup. He Wants Them Back for a Second Term\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump says he\u2019ll bring back Michael Flynn if he wins in 2024: \u2018He\u2019s some man\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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