Corey R. Lewandowski > Quotes

“The boss has taken a lot of heat from the fake news media regarding their absurd conspiracy about collusion with Russia, which we can both tell you firsthand is ridiculous.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“My Twitter account has become so powerful I can actually make my enemies tell the truth. —DONALD J. TRUMP”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Meanwhile, A.J. turned her ire on Hope, who had just about had it with A.J—Hope had simply done her job with the journalist. So Hope starts to yell back at A.J. All of this is going on as Mr. Trump is trying to read the paper. Finally, in one of the funniest moments on Trump Force One, the boss lowers the paper and yells: “Cat Fight!” And just as quickly, he went back to reading the newspaper.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Carolina. Dave compared an early campaign for president to running for governor in three states. He told Trump whom he would have to hire, and what each hire’s job would be. He went over the field that Trump would be up against and the issues that would matter in the race. He told him how much it would cost. It was a master class in primary politics, and Trump was enthusiastically engaged. Bannon, who at the time was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, was impressed with Trump’s mastery of the Socratic method of learning”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Though he knew the name, Corey knew nothing of the man. He wasn’t alone. Not a lot of people working in politics under fifty knew Paul Manafort. His last foray into a political campaign was Bob Dole’s campaign, and there he had been an “informal” adviser. You’d have to go back to 1980 and the relatively small role he played as “southern coordinator” for Reagan to find any real on-the-front-lines campaign experience.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“All right,” he said. “Why don’t you be in charge of the Facebook? Scavino, you’re with Jared now.” Just like that, Jared was involved.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“He would bid low again when Corey called in January 2015 looking for a website for the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign. Brad charged the campaign $1,500, and then worked overnight, hunched over his computer in his living room, on the design.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“At around nine o’clock, the boss arrived in the war room on the fourteenth floor and stood in front of a wall mounted with six seventy-five-inch TVs, all showing different networks. The number of people in the room had somehow swelled. There were dozens of pizza boxes piled on the tables. Melania Trump was there, as were the Trump kids. Governor Mike Pence, his wife, Karen, and their daughter, Charlotte, were there. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was there, as was Dr. Ben Carson. Bob Mercer, the reclusive conservative billionaire, was dressed in a dapper three-piece gray suit. Bannon said he looked like Rich Uncle Pennybags, the Monopoly man.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“When you look back at his interviews, you can see how they helped him prepare for the debates, both in the primary and the general election. It was political genius and a talent for which he gets very little credit. If anyone but Donald J. Trump showed the same skill, he or she would be called a mastermind.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Don McGahn, however, came over and in the middle of the convention floor gave us big hugs and thanked us for all the work we put into the campaign. It was a sign of true class.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“It was the next morning that an old high school classmate called Corey to tell him that Brian Kinney, Alison’s husband, had been on flight 175, the one that slammed into the South Tower. He was killed.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Jared called his father-in-law in the residence and tried to soft-pedal Vlasto’s numbers. “Melania,” Mr. Trump called to his wife, “Jared says we’re going to lose.” Mr. Trump then snapped his flip phone closed and tossed it across the room and onto the bed. “What a waste of time and money,” he said.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Leading up to the announcement, the boss did what the boss does best: he built excitement. The press followed him around like a waddle of deranged penguins, just as it had for years. They swallowed his Twitter-announced promises for a “big surprise” the next Tuesday, or Friday, or the week after like they were slurping down pickled herrings, only to see the dates come and go, only to get fooled again.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“The first big lesson that Corey learned about his new boss was that Donald Trump practically lived on his phone, a big black landline at the left-hand corner of his desk. In the early days, every time Corey walked into Trump’s office, he seemed to be on the phone with some titan of industry or celebrity. One day early on when he walked in, Trump was on the phone with former president Bill Clinton, having a lengthy conversation with him. Trump also used the phone to manage his organization. The lesson was that if you worked for Donald Trump, you better have your phone on, because he was going to call.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“By Vegas, we had pared the prep team back to Bannon, Kellyanne, Reince, Rudy, Chris Christie, Jared, and Dave.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“For the first seven months that Brad worked for the campaign, Corey didn’t even know what he looked like. He was just a country voice on the other end of the phone. When he did finally meet him, Corey was like, “Whoa, big fella.” Along with being six eight, he had a buzz cut and wore an Amish-style beard. All he was missing was a plaid shirt and a giant ax.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“We did thirty-five rallies in September, compared to seventeen by Hillary. From October 1 up to and including Election Day we did 143!”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Just as Steve had thought, the story ran the next day, August 15, page one, above the fold. “I’ve got a crook running my campaign,” Trump said when he read it.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Rick Gates, who had somehow survived the regime change, even though Trump had instructed several people to fire him multiple times. Survival seemed to be Gates’s main talent. On either Dave’s first or second day, Mr. Trump came down to the fourteenth floor, saw Gates, and immediately told Dave to fire”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“But the numbers had already started to turn. The undercover Trump voters, as Kellyanne Conway called them, the ones who didn’t believe the Left’s propaganda against Trump but who felt isolated by it, were streaming to the polls and finally got their say.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“There’s no floor here,” Bannon told him. “It could get really bad.” Hillary was killing them on the ground, especially in the battleground states, where she had three times the number of campaign offices. At the end of August, the Clinton campaign had more than twice the number of field offices in Ohio. They outnumbered Trump’s campaign offices 34 to 1 in Florida and 36 to 2 in Pennsylvania—states without which a Trump victory was practically impossible.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“A FEW WEEKS before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who appears on Shark Tank, went on Fox Business and said that a Trump victory in November would cause the stock market to crash.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“During the debates, Jared’s assistant, Avi Berkowitz, a Harvard Law grad ran what we called Trump Tower Live, a live-feed Facebook talk show that we posted pre- and postdebate.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Look at you! Right out of Central Casting,” Trump said to Corey as Nunberg introduced them. “A good-looking guy.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“one. He stored the information about Trump and a month or so later called Wynn back. “You think you could introduce me to Donald Trump?” he asked. Although he didn’t know exactly what Trump would do for him, he figured getting to know the owner of the course where he held the tournament could only have an upside. On this crap table, he saw no harm in throwing the dice. There wasn’t any harm. Without missing a beat, Wynn called out to his assistant. “Cindy, get the Donald on the phone for me, please.” And just like that, Dave was on a conference call with two billionaires. “Any friend of Steve’s is a friend of mine,” Trump would say after the introductions. “Next time you’re in New York, come see me.” “Funny,” Dave said, “I’m scheduled to be in New York City in the next couple of weeks.” As there was no such scheduled trip,”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Corey once figured out that during his time as campaign manager, he sat next to Donald Trump on the 757 for a total of 1,000 hours. That’s over forty-six days spent in an airplane. Sitting next to your boss. And in that period you get to know someone. It was during that time that Corey saw the side of Mr. Trump few would get to see. The funny, magnanimous, gracious, loyal person who wanted only to change America for the better. As tough as the boss could be—and he could be tough—a bond developed between those of us on those flights that was akin to family; in particular, a bond between the boss, Hope, Corey, and Keith.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“About two fifteen, we’d moved to the front foyer. It was there at 2:20 when Kellyanne’s phone rang. “What state are you calling?” she asked the AP editor. “We’re not calling a state,” he said. “We’re calling the race.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“By November 2016, the Obama administration had used up about 78 percent of the White House budget for its fiscal year, which begins and ends at the beginning of May. Meaning, the Trump transition didn’t have much to work with, and it left us only 22 percent of the budget, or about two and a half months of money, to pay federal salaries and upkeep costs from January 20 until the end of April. That meant, among other things, that we would have to go light on the lower-office appointments, at least for a little while.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Mr. Trump ordered his advance team to book only hotels that were less than six months old. He didn’t care if it was a Motel 6 or a Four Seasons, just as long as it was brand-new. He didn’t like the dust. And if you sneezed around him, he would make you go to the back of the plane. So they decided not to tell him that part of his Secret Service protection was a sweep of the jet by a bomb-sniffing dog. Mr. Trump would have exploded had he known that some wet-nosed mongrel was all over his beautiful leather seats, never mind the dog hairs that were undoubtedly everywhere.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Around this time, Dave commissioned a poll by Kellyanne Conway testing Mr. Trump in an election for the governor of New York against the incumbent, Andrew Cuomo. Dave, JT, and Jeff traveled to Trump Tower to review the first night’s results with Mr. Trump. Trump suggested that we add this question to the poll: “Would you rather see Donald J. Trump run for governor of New York or president of the United States?”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency