Corey Lewandowski Suspended by CNN

[RockaFowler]

FINALLY

http://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-corey-lewandowski-suspended-by-cnn/

Mediaite has learned from sources that Corey Lewandowski, the former embattled campaign manager for the Trump campaign who joined CNN as a political contributor on June 23rd, and been suspended by the cable news net. The network found out that Lewandowski was still being paid by the Trump campaign, separate from his severance package that he received after leave his work on the campaign trail.

FEC filings from the months of July and August reveal that the Donald Trump campaign gave Lewandowski’s Green Monster Consulting company $20,000 for what was listed as “strategy consulting.”

Lewandowski was released from his role as campaign manager on June 20, then quickly joined CNN within days. FEC filings however reveal that the $20,000 in consulting fees were paid to Green Monster in the months following his ouster.

What Liberal Media?????????

[radical noodle]

1. There was a little twitter storm yesterday about it

I wonder if that finally forced them to do it?

[TimeToGo]

59. Unfortunately, this isn't true

Should be, but . . .

[radical noodle]

60. What about it isn't true?

[Madam45for2923]

2. Won't ever forget that CNN hired him!

[EV_Ares]

3. Everyone knew he was still on the Trump payroll for some time now. CNN is just now figuring all

this out. However, your post there sounds like it was all part of a strategy of the Trump campaign. CNN gets screwed again.

[leftynyc]

10. But it was said

the payments were just part of his severance package and they (not anyone with a brain, but CNN apparently) were okay with that. This is a separate payment for services rendered NOW.

[EV_Ares]

17. Oh, OK, thanks for clarifying that. I guess I didn't understand that part. Well, CNN for as large

of a cable news company as they are, they sure do some stupid things.

[leftynyc]

46. I think it was outrageous

they hired that con man in the first place. It finally became untenable to keep him there.

[Hortensis]

33. Presumably illegal, or not -- but NOT suspended. CNN

says so.

From tRump's campaign:

“Corey Lewandowski, who is no longer involved in the campaign, continues to receive monthly severance payments. The campaign will continue to honor its contract with Mr. Lewandowski, which stipulates he will be paid through the end of the year. These payments are in no way compensation for services rendered.”

This could be just more of that hubris...

[Blue_Tires]

57. +1000

People have been pointing this out since day one

[rurallib]

4. It was hardly a secret

wasn't this out a month ago?
They should be held accountable for doing nothing for a month.

[patsimp]

5. crooked conservatives

[Jade Fox]

6. This has been known for a month or so.....

I kept wondering why Lewandowski was still on CNN.

[Kathy M]

44. ^ This

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

7. SHEESH. Everybody knew except CNN?

Not surprising that a campaign manager who assaulted a reporter in public would be double dipping.

Hey, CNN, how about you put a Clinton Exec in prime time for the next two months?

[groundloop]

26. Hell, it'd be amazing if Clinton people could just get half the TV time as tRump surrogates

All the time, even on the supposedly liberal leaning MSNBC I see tRump people who tell lies, don't answer questions, and persist in talking shit about Hillary without being called out for their tactics. On and on it goes, without so much as contacting a Hillary surrogate for a comment.

Someone on MSNBC was talking the other day about the 5 to 1 spending difference between the campaigns on television ad buys. Hell, Hillary's campaign needs to spend that much just to match all the free TV time tRump has been enjoying.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. You're fired!

Well, suspended, anyway.

Just occurred to me that this is Classic King Con...hire a campaign manager, and get someone else to pay the guy.

[SHRED]

9. Suspended?

Why not fired?

[BigMin28]

11. Now

If only someone would fire Jeff Zucker, maybe CNN could be a real news channel again.

[Zen Democrat]

25. Jeff Zucker is the pits. As long as he runs CNN, that channel will also be the pits.

I turned on for a few minutes this morning and Carol Costello made me want to barf in less than three minutes.

[mdbl]

65. Most of these so called news and info-tainment shows

make me feel the same way. If i turn on Mush Limpballs in the car by accident, I immediately grab a barf bag.

[cilla4progress]

12. Apparently the MSM has been drinking

lead-laced water, too...

[lonestarnot]

68. chromium 6

[joeybee12]

13. About effing time!!!!

KNR

[Fast Walker 52]

14. first, why wasn't he fired??? Second, everyone knew this was going on for a while

[SticksnStones]

15. About effin' time

((I don't curse much as a daily practice but damn I just wanna throw alotta f-bombs today...though I think it's making my sofa a little uncomfortable))

((I can barely even type a curse word.)) Sacking Lewendowski?

((Well, here goes-))

It's about f*cking time!!! ((Ok, I tried.))


((On a side note, I like how when I go to spell check 'Lewendowski' my iPad comes back with 'no replacement found' and all I can think is, "yeah, not yet. But give CNN some time and they'll put some other hack in his place...))

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Now Trump can whine even more

Now FOX needs to suspend Hannity until the campaign is over.

Trump has whined about the media incessantly when he had a guy he was paying at CNN, an adviser who is on FOX every night. The guy running his campaign ran the #1 White Supremacy media site in the internet. And another adviser who used to run the largest cable news network in the country.

[pinboy3niner]

18. UPDATE: CNN denies that it has suspended Corey Lewandowski

Posted by DonViejo in GD: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028177903

[randome]

19. Maybe not.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/corey-lewandowski-cnn-denies-suspended

But the network is denying a report from Mediaite that initially blared a headline of Lewandowski being suspended. The story claims he was pulled this morning from appearances on CNN's "New Day" because "the network found out that Lewandowski was still being paid by the Trump campaign, separate from his severance package."

CNN did not respond Wednesday morning to TPM's request for comment, but denied that Lewandowski was suspended to Politico and to the Huffington Post.

Mediaite has since changed the headline on its post to "BREAKING: Corey Lewandowski Pulled From Appearing on CNN Morning Show."

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Meredith McIver approves of this post.[/center][/font][hr]

[volstork]

20. File under "AssHat"

[tonyt53]

21. Hmm, imagine that

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. They should suspend the exec who hired him

Completely fucking outrageous that they should have an obvious paid campaign operative on as a commentator. It's beyond belief, really.

[Thinkingabout]

23. He is a nasty one, I like CNN but he was a big negative, told

Lies and argued he was right.

[Yallow]

24. Was A Great Gig - Acting As A Surrogate And Being Paid By Two Employers Selling Poop

To the viewers.

Great work if you can get it.

Now all he needs is a lawyer so he doesn't go to jail as an accomplice to the Foundations Self Dealing Coverup.

[MoonRiver]

27. YAAAAAY! May this be the first of all the Rump humpers being canned!

[LynneSin]

28. I'm shocked I tells ya, just SHOCKED....

[niyad]

29. hey, cnn, you just figured this out??? DU has known it from the first day.

[bigtree]

31. CNN should be fired

...this 'news' organization isn't as naive as they pretend about the conflict of interest.

[louis c]

32. I'm Shocked, Shocked to learn that there's gambling going on in this esablishment

[Johnny2X2X]

34. Not Suspended!

CNN says they have not suspended Lewandowksi.

[pinboy3niner]

35. See #18. nt

[catbyte]

36. And CNN was shocked by this? Hell, even *I* knew he & Cheeto Benito talk daily.

Come on.

On edit: After reading comments that CNN hasn't suspended him, never mind...

[underthematrix]

37. So how many of YOU are still watching CNN as a legitimate news source?

[Duckhunter935]

38. About fricking time

They now need to own up to their mistake and make a public announcement and apology to the viewers

[rivegauche]

39. Gosh what a shocker. *eyeroll*

How utterly INEPT is CNN, for first hiring him and then not checking such a BASIC THING! Idiots!

[Iggo]

40. "The network found out that Lewandowski was still being paid by the Trump campaign..."

When?

Like everyone else, the day after CNN hired him?

Or like yesterday?

[oberliner]

41. This is not true

He has not been suspended by CNN.

Story is false.

[cwydro]

42. Fake shit is posted on DU all the time.

No one seems to care.

[fun n serious]

43. Yep.

I'm disapointed

[totodeinhere]

63. As long as it's something they want to hear they will go with it true or not. n/t

[RockaFowler]

45. Mediaite has updated their story

When I first posted this story it was just like I posted.

Now they have updated with the following:

Editor’s Note: Based on information from a high level CNN source, we initially reported that Corey Lewandowski was suspended from CNN. CNN has now gotten back to us and firmly denied that Lewandowski has been suspended, and said that he will be on air later today. We regret what now appears to have been an error and have made changes accordingly, but stand by our reporting that Lewandowski was pulled off the air this morning because of the brewing controversy.

[annabanana]

47. Should have NEVER been hired (Trump non-disclosure strictures). . . n/t

[left-of-center2012]

48. How stupid is CNN ? n/t

[demigoddess]

49. I thought he was still on the payroll!!

and CNN should have been smarter.

[Purveyor]

50. That is odd. Corey Lewandowsk is on CNN as I type this. eom

[MoonRiver]

52. I just saw him too, ugh.

I rarely watch CNN because of these revolting Rump sycophants, who are trotted out non-stop.

[Eugene]

51. Aw, it was too good to be true! - updated Mediaite story

Corey Lewandowski Pulled From Appearing on CNN Morning Show

http://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-corey-lewandowski-suspended-by-cnn/

[mdbl]

66. too bad, hope this doesn't give him more viewers

I could never watch CNN because of hiring people like him. Didn't even know he was there until this thread. Thanks for the update.

[Agnosticsherbet]

53. No, the ass wipe is on CNN right now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

54. They never should have hired that tool in the first place.

I suppose they were trying to assure themselves of "access."

[Angry Dragon]

55. he was still a Trump Hemorrhoid

[Mike Nelson]

56. CNN and Cory are made for...

...each other.

[louis-t]

58. They're just finding that out now?

Everyone here knew that the second day he worked there!!

[Gabi Hayes]

61. uhhhhh...it's a GOOD thing for Hillary every time that crooked fast talker opens his yap.

almost every trumpster on TV does him no good.

and he's one of the worst. he lies so fast that sometimes his tongue gets ahead of his lips

and the LOOKS he gives off....he makes Charley Manson look like Santa Claus from Miracle on 34th street

[totodeinhere]

62. This is a false rumor. He has not been suspended.

Despite a report in Mediaite, CNN tells us Corey Lewandowski has not been sidelined from his contributor role on the network. A CNN spokesperson tells TVNewser, “Corey has not been suspended. He will be on air later today.”

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/corey-lewandowskis-role-with-cnn-continues-to-make-headlines/305350

[ThoughtCriminal]

64. Somebody needs to find out the real story

let me get this straight. Trump actually paid somebody? Which charity wrote the check?

[KewlKat]

67. Whether Drumpf pays him or not......he's still involved in Drumpf campaign

Trump fired Lewandowski back in June, but what did you learn about the type of involvement he’s having now?

Even after his firing, he kept in close touch with the candidate. The two formed a close, personal bond, and it was really the candidate’s children who forced Lewandowski’s ouster. But recently, especially with the departure of Paul Manafort in late August, he’s been re-engaging with the campaign more broadly. He met with Matt Biundo, who’s helping run the New Hampshire operation, and offered to be a liaison between New Hampshire and New York. He’s now reportedly listening in on morning conference calls held by communication and political staff in New York, and is generally serving as a resource, especially for the New Hampshire operation, where he has the most institutional knowledge.

You’ve heard from New Hampshire campaign staffers for Trump who say they’re consulting with him on a regular basis?

That’s right.

So, it’s not a formal role, but he’s having influence outside the bounds of the campaign?

Yes, and that influence in recent weeks has been growing.

And to be clear, Lewandowski declined to comment and the Trump campaign insists he has no decision-making authority.

That’s right, and his role broadly by people who have been interacting with him, people who have been observing his relationship with the campaign is that it’s informal, it’s advisory. It’s quiet and behind the scenes.

And this comes as Lewandowski continues to work as a paid political analyst for CNN, where he appears almost daily, vigorously defending the campaign.

What kind of ethical concerns are being raised about that?

Really from the start of his gig with CNN, it was pointed out that he probably had a strict non-disclosure because most people working for Trump have signed a strict non-disclosure, non-disparagement agreement. That makes it hard for someone to comment objectively. The fact that he’s still receiving severance pay from the campaign critics say hampers his ability to be a truly objective CNN commentator. And of course, any additional involvement with the campaign only compounds those concerns.

SOURCE: http://nhpr.org/post/behind-scenes-lewandowski-reasserting-his-influence-trump-campaign

[liberal N proud]

69. How many others are paid by somoene other than the agency they work for?