Trump Puts Embattled Campaign Manager On Stage, Slams ‘Disgusting’ Media

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After racking up another string of primary wins Tuesday night, Republican Donald Trump offered a familiar refrain railing against the party establishment and the media in a speech at his compound in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump slammed “really disgusting” and “horrible people” in the media as his embattled campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, laughed on stage.

Lewandowski, who is accused of manhandling a Breitbart reporter, flanked the candidate at his right-hand side during the televised speech and was featured almost as prominently as Trump’s own son.

Trump did not take any questions from the media, a rarity for the press-savvy candidate on a victorious evening, and only addressed the ongoing controversy by gesturing at his manager to say, “Corey, good job, Corey.”

The billionaire also bemoaned the slew of recent negative ads targeting his campaign, saying, “nobody has ever, ever in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that I have” while allowing that the ads are “mostly,” but not all, false.

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  1. Avatar for grack grack says:

    You are garbage. Your weasel campaign manager is garbage. I hope you get nominated, you big sack of garbage.

  2. Avatar for korvu korvu says:

    All of the sycophants surrounding him are sleazebags. Lewandowski, Scavino, Stone. Street hoods in suits. These guys have no idea what is about to be unleashed on them once the Democrats turn to the general.

  3. Trump continues to prove the adage that some people never grow up, they just grow older. The longer this goes on, the less of a threat I see in him. The Democrats and the media haven’t even begun to turn their fire.

  4. “Corey, good job, Corey.”- Trump says to the guy who manhandled a woman reporter, laughed about to it and then accused her of being delusional.

    Does anyone seriously doubt Trump is capable of the things he calls “horrible disgusting things”? … like rape his ex-wife as she once claimed?

  5. nobody has ever, ever in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that I have

    John Kerry would beg to differ.

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