The man orchestrating Donald Trump’s rise by letting the candidate be himself has entered the spotlight after allegedly assaulting a reporter –and it’s not the first time he has courted controversyWhen Donald Trump decided towards the end of 2014 to gain a bid for the most powerful job in the world,one of his first tasks was to appoint a manager to dash his presidential campaign. The name he landed on was pure Trump: a former lobbyist for the seafood industry who had never dash a national campaign, who had staged debates in public with a cardboard cutout, and whose only claim to fame was sneaking a gun into the US Capitol.
And so it came to pass that Corey Lewandowski became the behind-the-scenes mastermind of one of the most bewildering political campaigns in history. In no small portion,Trump’s unlikely rise from maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) outsider to frontrunner on the verge of securing the Republican party nomination must be credited to this 42-year-archaic, who himself has undergone an astonishing ascent from the relative obscurity of New Hampshire politics to stand at the genuine estate billionaire’s side.
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Source: theguardian.com