Even given Corey Lewandowski's past behavior he comes off as an abusive, out-of-control prick in this well-sourced story. https://t.co/s8nc0fzzFZ
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 29, 2021
Just so as we’re all up to date on the latest GOP outbreak…
Turns out the thing that gets Trump to actually believe a credible, witness-corroborated accusation of sexual abuse is a $100,000 SuperPac donation from the victim. https://t.co/6HlTQbc4CG
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 30, 2021
Ah, yes. That would matter more. https://t.co/RphvRGeKdu
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 30, 2021
Trump cannot technically fire Lewandowski from MAGA Action, the outside group he runs with Pam Bondi. It's a separate independent group. He can tell donors not to give, tell others they shouldn't be involved with Lewandowski. But there is no formal mechanism to remove him.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 30, 2021
Maggie is happy to be of service, again…
"For months since Mr. Trump left office, several of his advisers have privately complained that Mr. Lewandowski’s connections with the super PAC and with Mr. Trump’s political circle have helped him with his other clients, including Ms. Noem." https://t.co/a3mKanbuBZ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 30, 2021
Next twist!
“South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, to whom Lewandowski serves as an informal adviser, was also among the dinner’s attendees.” https://t.co/QURnjQPqvD
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 29, 2021
lol every actor involved here from author to subjects is hot nazi garbage, we got a five alarm root for injuries scenario happenin, folks pic.twitter.com/kW1apfL9ip
— kilgore trout, ron desantis spokesperson (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 29, 2021
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem severs ties with longtime Trump aide Via @michaelscherer @jdawsey1https://t.co/YbfXvApKWC
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) September 30, 2021
Vulgar interpretation: In Vegas, rage muppet Lewandowski (married, four kids) got a little sauced and decided it was a good time to show his ‘associate’ Noem (married, three kids) that she wasn’t the only fish in the sea. Unfortunately for those two, despite her stripper-adjacent name, Trashell Odom turned out to be impervious to Corey’s charms — and further, she had the money to get her complaints heard.
So… does this give Noem more credibility, as a possible VP candidate for TFG’s (pretend) 2024 campaign?
Poignant paragraph from Lewendowski’s Wikipedia page:
When Lewandowski was hired, Trump’s political staff consisted of three people: his lawyer Michael D. Cohen, veteran operative Roger Stone, and aide Sam Nunberg. In April 2016, another veteran GOP operative, Paul Manafort, was hired; the following month Manafort was named “campaign chairman.” Nunberg was fired in early August 2015; he believes that it was Lewandowski and campaign press secretary Hope Hicks who asked Trump for his ouster. Stone left the campaign a week later…
It’s like they imagined The Sopranos as a documentary.
Anotherlurker
Injuries to all the of players, would, indeed, be welcome.
There go two miscreants
“Noem severs ties …” — too bad she didn’t sever something else!
The Dangerman
I’m behind; didn’t Lewandowski get fired for pissing off Hope Hicks? You know TFG views HH like she is one of his daughters (hanging curveball, I know).
sukabi
@There go two miscreants: she’d likely still be doing the deed with him except it went public at the same time as her involvement in getting her daughter’s appraisers license approved broke….it really doesn’t bode well for her future as a vp candidate….
Chetan Murthy
@sukabi:
Can I just say, that’s so sad. I mean, one might hope that she had enough self-respect to not bang some guy who literally
hit onsexually assaulted another prospect right before her eyes. One might hope. Ah, well.lgerard
@The Dangerman:
He got fired by messing with Hope Hicks, but got his revenge by dropping a dime on her new boyfriend Rob Porter.
That’s how trump world works
MobiusKlein
What the fuck does Haberman think her job is?
Seems like the NYT has a full time high level person sniffing the Trump universe’s laundry, rather than covering the business of the country.
Cameron
@There go two miscreants: You’re suggesting she should have given him the full Bobbitt?
lgerard
@MobiusKlein:
Reporting whatever Ivanka whispers to her
Chetan Murthy
@Cameron: I’d have respected her a little, if she had. Only a little, but still…..
piratedan
@sukabi: sits back and tries to rember that once upon a time they were known as the Family Values Party… I guess that maybe that’s really true after all… seems kind of quaint now that a hummer could cause such outrage or perhaps it was lying about it was the real transgression.. or maybe they’re just hypocrites….
Comrade Colette
@MobiusKlein:
Ugh. And it’s Trump World, please – don’t let them expand!
Anne Laurie
She was a legacy hire, in the first place. Then she made them a ton of money during the Trump Interregnum, which they respect. And IIRC, she’s currently ‘on sabbatical’, writing a book about ‘sniffing the Trump universe’s laundry’, whose publication I’m sure they plan to use to garner another few million dollars (& rage-clicks).
Cameron
Wonder if Trashelle is related to Cruella.
Chetan Murthy
Oh, now I get it: “Tru-shell” as in “Tr[uh]-shell” ? with the first syllable pronounced like “duh”, and not “do”, I guess ? And not “Tr[ay]-shell” either, I guess.
JoyceH
If you ask me, the main offense here was not harassment of a particularly aggressive and public nature, but the fact that Lewandowski bragged to his victim that he controls access to Trump. You know that sort of claim would send Trump into the stratosphere.
Cameron
Not sure I blame Lewandowski entirely, as I think Bob Keeshan has much to answer for. Who among us, when we were impressionable young childrren, did not hear “Busy hands are happy hands” while watching Captain Kangaroo?
Winston
Who wouldn’t be on the make during a political campaign? Just stands to reason that the governor would want to have sex with a consultant. AmIright?
Pete Downunder
I’m a long way away and a bit behind but do I have this right? Lewandowski was having an affair with Noem and more or less at the same time was hitting on a major donor? Meanwhile here in the land Downunder the otherwise well respected Premier (like a state governor) of NSW has resigned because she is being investigated because of a secret relationship with a guy who had business before the state parliament. We obviously have to lift our game here as no adultery was involved and there is no evidence so far of any serious misconduct.
Other MJS
“Trump World” used unironically in a presser?
West of the Rockies
@Cameron:
Oddly enough, Keeshan was married to Anne Laurie (though not our Anne Laurie).
SiubhanDuinne
@West of the Rockies:
AFAYK.
mrmoshpotato
Couldn’t happen to a shittier group of Dump-humping, fascist shitstains.
mrmoshpotato
@MobiusKlein:
Stenographer to the
starsshitstains.sukabi
@Chetan Murthy: if she had any self respect she wouldn’t have had anything to do with him at all….
sukabi
@piratedan: “family values” was always just a façade in the GOP, a clever branding exercise that let them huff and puff in public while lying, cheating and stealing everything they could get their hands on when no one was looking… they’re just doing everything in broad daylight now and daring someone to stop them.
Chetan Murthy
@sukabi: Ehhhh … maybe he’s really, really good in bed. Who knows.
sukabi
@Chetan Murthy: Ugh, who cares about that? How on earth could you get past the shitty, repulsive personality?
Chetan Murthy
@sukabi: Well, Noem isn’t exactly a kind and gentle spirit herself, so that wouldn’t seem to be a problem. Whatever. They’re all horrible people, they all deserve to be sewn up in a burlap sack and dumped into a lake.
Dan B
@Chetan Murthy: Lewandowski seems to think he is.
And TFG does also.
However an ‘eye witness’, name of Stormy says, “Worst 90 seconds of my life.” Perhaps Corey is equally “efiicient” allowing Noem more time to campaign.*
*He is an advisor, right? Keep on the stump!
Dan B
@Chetan Murthy: I feel very sorry for the lake.
And the burlap.
sukabi
@Chetan Murthy: Agreed.
Still revolting.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
As today’s young adults would say, “he’s got no game”
Tony Jay
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
“vile and disgusting things”?
Like, “Come on, Trashy, how about it? You, me, and The President makes three.“?
I’m assuming everyone here plans to skip breakfast?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Tony Jay:
No fair! You’ve already had breakfast.
Ruckus
@Chetan Murthy:
Had a whole thing about burlap not being the correct material, but someone may have assumed that I had too much knowledge about the process, from what I first stated.
Tony Jay
@Steeplejack (phone):
In my defence I’m now likely to see it again.
montanareddog
Trashelle, huh? The odious characters of Trumpworld become more Dickensian by the day.
Zeddy’s tweet in the OP has it exactly right. You can mess with bitches as much as you want until there is serious cash money on the line. If Odom had donated $1000 would Lewandowski have been fired? At least, we have a better idea now of the price for not being groped in the GQP.
montanareddog
And Maggie Haberman is a PR distribution channel for neo-fascists, not a journalist.
Dan B
@Tony Jay: The
BangersBangin got Mashed?Sorry, sorta. Dark humor to take one’s mind off the creeps.
Geminid
@sukabi: Noem’s lapses do not bode well for her future as a Governor either. In 2018 she beat Democrat Billie Sutton by less than 12,000 votes out of 300,000 votes cast. She will have her hands full just winning reelction next year.
Frankensteinbeck
@piratedan:
They were and still are. They are generally true to their values, and those values have not changed. Their values are just different and vile to us. They include children being property that parents have absolute rights to do anything they want to, with a focus on the importance of molding the child into whatever makes them feel good. Keeping the child ignorant is a virtuous tool. Conformity and the paradigm of toxic masculinity are the top virtues there in molding the child, especially homophobia. The patriarch, and to a lesser extent other family males, is allowed to get sex wherever he wants, including his children, affairs, and raping his wife. Marriages should be loveless. Yes, that’s important to them. Not resenting your partner means you’re suspiciously weird. Closely associated to all of this, you do not air the dirty laundry of any valued member of their community.
Their idea of family values is the sitcom stereotype, based on the reactionary patriarchy of the 50s that created an imaginary sexual role society they would claim was tradition.
lowtechcyclist
Where are the 30-50 feral hogs when you need them?
Geminid
@Frankensteinbeck: I would second your observation that the “family values” slogan was an implicit jab at the gay rights movement and the nascent alliance between that movement and the Democratic Party. I remember hearing Republicans talking about “the San Francisco Democrats” around the same time (early 1990s?) that they spoke of themselves as the family values party.
Tony Jay
@Dan B:
What’s the odds that right this minute multiple Infotainers across the many platforms of the News Media Complex are following verbal orders from their Senior Editors to dig up every single Democratic Party sexy-time scandal of the last few decades and present them as –
(adopts saddened but persuasive talking-head tone)
“Maybe the underlying reason that standards in public life have fallen so low, so very, very low, that naïve political outsiders like Lewandowski weren’t even aware they were crossing a line is because, in a world where Presidents lie about affairs with interns, Vice-Presidential candidates cheat on their wives, and congressmen adopt fanciful nom de plumes to bombard women with sexually graphic pictures, who knows where ‘the line’ even is anymore?”
See? It was The Clenis what done it.
lowtechcyclist
Remember that the same GQPers that were the ‘family values’ types were also the ‘biblical values’ types.
Just think about all those Biblical families. Cain and Abel. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar. “God said to Abraham, kill me a son.” Lot and his daughters. Jacob and Esau. Jacob, Rachel, Leah, and a couple of handmaidens. Joseph being so obnoxious that his brothers were going to kill him, but sold him into slavery instead. King David’s household was berserko, from rapes to rebellions. The list goes on.
Biblical family values: a little too interesting.
Baud
They must be close to an agreement on the bills because the MJ crew has moved on to attacking Dems for their messaging.
Geminid
@lowtechcyclist: For a long time, I’ve made a habit of listening to AM radio preachers. I remember that during the Clinton years there was a preoccupation with the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. I haven’t heard much about that ancient power couple since then.
Joey Maloney
@Ruckus: It should be done Roman style, that is to say, an asp and a mongoose should be sewn into the sack with them prior to their enlakenment.
different-church-lady
So, basically, he got fired for acting just like his boss?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Alternative interpretation, Lewandowksi got drunk, couldn’t hide his contempt for the doners anymore and raped one. Not much a leap since he does it metaphorically every day. The cheep shot to wife and Noem were bonus trolling.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Geminid: it’s also a jab at Feminism and any guy who doesn’t beat wife and kids like they do.
lowtechcyclist
@Geminid: One big tell is their use, or neglect, of Romans 13:1-6. In that passage, Paul basically says that the worldly authorities have been put there by God and you should obey them.
You hear them quote that passage a lot when a Republican is in the White House. It pretty much disappears when a Democrat is President.
droog
WOMP WOMP
Anne Laurie
All the reports I’ve seen said assaulted. Everyone at the ‘small event’ was keeping an eye out, the victim never leave the room, and she asked her friends to walk her up to her room in case Corey decided to try anything more than grab-hands and nasty talk.
(Or, as he calls it, foreplay.)
He’s a pig, but apparently he’s managed to keep his gross behavior under control in public since being awarded this sinecure. At least towards donors, or other women who might ’embarrass the organization’ later.
VOR
Promise? I’m sure at least 12000 of her voters have died of COVID thanks to her “management” of the pandemic.
J R in WV
I can’t help but wonder if steak knives were available on the table at dinner? Perhaps Truella / Trashella should have tried pinning his hand to the dinner table with a steak knife, or gone for an eye? Self defense, right? Witnesses all around?
Corey would look good with an eye patch or two…