Lewandowski Joins Trump On Trip Just Days After Mocking Girl With Down Syndrome

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 08: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is surrounded by members of the media as he leaves the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on March 8, 2018 at the U.S. Capit... WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 08: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is surrounded by members of the media as he leaves the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on March 8, 2018 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. This is Lewandowski's second time appearing before the committee that is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski accompanied the President on a trip to the Nevada GOP convention Saturday just days after Lewandowski mocked a girl with Down syndrome on national television.

A pool report from Joint Base Andrews Saturday morning, where the President and several others would board Air Force One for the trip to Nevada, read: “Corey Lewandowski is also along for the trip. He dropped by to say hello to the pool.”

A pool report later in the day added: “Corey Lewandowski circulated in the crowd as POTUS was in the supporter roundtable, receiving a celebrity welcome, with dozens of GOP convention attendees taking photos/selfies with him.”

In an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, Lewandowski replied with a sarcastic “Womp womp!” after another guest, Democratic operative Zac Petkanas, told the story of a 10-year-old Mexican girl with Down syndrome who had been separated from her mother after they were apprehended while crossing the border.

Lewandowski has refused to apologize. “I never meant to insult anybody with Down syndrome. And who I was talking to was Zac. And I understand what the perception is here and what the media wants to talk about,” he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.

In May, Lewandowski accepted a job with Vice President Mike Pence’s political action committee, Great America PAC. The same month, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Lewandowski was advising T-Mobile. Neither has commented on his recent Fox News appearance.

The speakers bureau Leading Authorities, Inc., however, did drop Lewandowski.

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  1. Trump loves and rewards cruelty. It’s what gets him up in the morning to turn on Fox News.

  2. Such a perfectly matched couple, how nice.

  3. Isn’t that special? Racists that play together stay together. BFFs (for the moment).

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