Tara Palmeri: “The power struggle between Trump’s ‘personal envoy,’ Corey Lewandowski, and campaign co-managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, apparently reached a tipping point earlier this month, leading to a blow-up on the campaign plane that ended with Lewandowski relegated back down to the surrogate level.”
“As I previously reported, Trump formally brought in Lewandowski, a chaos agent from his 2016 campaign, back in August, presumably in an attempt to shake up his operation and give LaCivita and Wiles a jolt. All throughout the month, the consensus view inside Trumpworld was that the campaign was too small for both Corey and Chris—’two alpha men,’ as one source put it—and that LaCivita might ultimately take the back seat.”
“Instead, after weeks of mounting frustration, it appears that it’s Lewandowski who has been put back in his place.”
