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Politics|New Trump Super PAC Formed successful the Wake of Misconduct Accusations
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/us/politics/trump-superpac-lewandowski.html
After a Trump donor accused Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted intersexual advances, allies of the erstwhile president formed a caller ace PAC.
Oct. 4, 2021, 10:49 p.m. ET
Allies of erstwhile President Donald J. Trump formed a caller ace PAC days aft Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s erstwhile run manager and the person of 1 of the largest pro-Trump ace PACs, was accused of intersexual misconduct.
The move, an effort to isolate Mr. Lewandowski and contradict him a relation successful Mr. Trump’s governmental operation, creates a caller extracurricular radical to enactment the erstwhile president arsenic helium considers whether to tally again successful 2024. It besides hints astatine the interior tumult that continues to disagreement the wide ellipse of ceremonial and informal Trump advisers.
Last week, a donor to Mr. Trump, Trashelle Odom, made the allegations astir Mr. Lewandowski successful a statement. Mrs. Odom accused him of making unwanted intersexual advances and touching her inappropriately astatine a meal successful Las Vegas.
A spokesperson for the erstwhile president, Taylor Budowich, indicated past week that Mr. Lewandowski would beryllium removed from his relation overseeing the ace PAC, Make America Great Again Action, and “will nary longer beryllium associated with Trump World.”
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But Mr. Lewandowski has told associates helium has not been removed. He is 1 of the entity’s 2 committee members. The caller ace PAC formed arsenic a result, calling itself “Make America Great Again, Again!” — a repurposing of Mr. Trump’s 2016 run slogan.
Mr. Lewandowski did not respond to a petition for comment.
The caller radical filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission connected Friday. It volition beryllium led by Pam Bondi, the erstwhile lawyer wide of Florida, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the erstwhile Fox News property who is dating Mr. Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Whether Mr. Lewandowski is banished from the Trump orbit and its web of affluent donors is acold from certain. The erstwhile president is known to bring aides helium has fired backmost into the fold, including Mr. Lewandowski, who was removed from Mr. Trump’s 2016 run but continued to bask entree and power astatine the White House.
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