The media panel actually shot back at Lewandowski-(Trumps visiting white areas to talk about black
problems.) Continue reading the whole article. We need to see more of this on cable--or anywhere.
Lewandowski: Trump rally in Chicago 'was not a safe environment'
By Nick Gass
08/23/16 07:27 AM EDT
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski faced the wrath of a CNN panel Monday night as he justified the Republican nominee's renewed push for African-American voters in recent days.
Of particular note was Trump's decision to target his message to African-American voters in front of predominantly white crowds in Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.
CNN's Anderson Cooper asked, "As a campaign manager, wouldn't you want your candidate saying some of these things directly to the people he's supposedly addressing?"
“You know what's amazing to me is no one remembers that Donald Trump went to go have a rally in Chicago at the university," Lewandowski responded during a heated discussion on "Anderson Cooper 360º." "And do you remember what happened? It was so chaotic and it was so out of control that Secret Service and the Chicago Police Department told him you could not get in and out of that facility safely and that rally was canceled. And you showed the footage many times of the individuals who attended that rally. Donald Trump had that rally booked."
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After a spirited back and forth, Lewandowski criticized panelist Angela Rye for failing to consider the substance of Trump's speech rather than the setting. African-Americans are not monolithic, Rye said, which Lewandowski acknowledged, then asking, "So whose fault is that that that particular event in Chicago was completely destroyed?”.......
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-chicago-rally-not-safe-lewandowski-227301#ixzz4IAyvdUKA
