Trump’s Magical History Tour

Corey Lewandowski
Lewandowski, of course, is something of a scandal magnet, with a Wikipedia that doubles as a veritable rap sheet. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
August 16, 2024

So much for Donald Trump’s tightly run, professionally operated, supposedly impenetrable campaign. Last weekend, I began hearing rumblings that the Red Bull-chugging operative Corey Lewandowski, who managed and then was fired from Trump’s 2016 campaign—and then was fired again from the super PAC in 2021 after being accused of sexually assaulting a donor—was calling around and boasting that he would be returning as campaign chairman, a role that would place him above campaign co-managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. Lewandowski, of course, is something of a scandal magnet, with a Wikipedia that doubles as a veritable rap sheet. But Trump, under siege and self-sabotaging as Kamala Harris surges in the polls, has been feeling superstitious and nostalgic of late.