Former President Donald J. Trump’s advisers are discussing including Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager who was pushed out of a pro-Trump super PAC in 2021, into the Republican National Convention, in line with two people briefed on the discussion.
It is unclear what specific role Lewandowski would play. But he’s the second ousted Trump official believed to be working at the convention, which can convene in July in Milwaukee.
Paul Manafort, who took over running Trump’s campaign in 2016 after Lewandowski was ousted as campaign manager and was himself fired later this summer, also likely can be hired for a role at the convention, in line with people acquainted with the matter.
Lewandowski and a Trump campaign spokesman didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.
Lewandowski was Trump’s original campaign manager when he first announced his presidential bid in June 2015. He was forced out by Trump’s adult children in the early summer of 2016 after a series of unsolicited headlines about him, regardless that the former president later expressed regret this decision. Lewandowski then co-wrote a book with former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie about the former president’s rise. They titled the book “Let Trump be Trump.”
Lewandowski’s forced departure from the pro-Trump super PAC he helped run got here after a donor’s wife accused him of unwanted sexual advances.
“Corey Lewandowski will be moving on to other endeavors, and we really want to thank him for his service,” a Trump spokesman said at the time. “He will no longer be associated with Trump World.”
Mr. Manafort worked with Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former pro-Russian leader of Ukraine, for several years before joining the Trump campaign. Manafort was under investigation into the 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia. He was convicted in a related case of a number of economic crimes and conspiracy to obstruct justice and served time in prison, but Trump ultimately pardoned him.
