Lewandowski: Actually, Cruz Had Nothing to Do With That Melania Ad

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said in a radio interview on Tuesday that Ted Cruz’s campaign was not involved in an attack ad on Trump’s wife, Melania. Lewandowski’s comments contradict his own candidate’s repeated claims the Cruz campaign was responsible. Lewandowski made the comments on the John Fredericks Show, where he denied the Trump campaign had any involvement with a National Enquirer story alleging Cruz had affairs with five different women. Roger Stone, a long time Trump aide who is no longer affiliated with the campaign, was quoted in the story. “I have no control over what Roger Stone does, doesn’t work for the campaign. He’s an independent individual who has no relationship with the campaign in any way, shape, or form,” said Lewandowski. “For them to intimate otherwise is completely inaccurate and it’s a narrative that they want to continue to perpetuate. The bottom line is Roger Stone is as much tied to this campaign as the super PAC that leaked that is tied to the Cruz campaign.”

BuzzFeed political reporter McKay Coppins spent 36 hours schlepping around New Hampshire — and then Palm Beach — with Donald Trump for a story that would expose the billionaire’s hot bluff of a gubernatorial run as precisely that. But the piece went one further. Padded to the gills with prime snippets of Trump’s political posturing and pandering, it cost The Donald’s top advisor and political consultant, Sam Nunberg, his job. Nunberg’s crime, it seems, was simply letting Donald Trump act like Donald Trump — in the presence of an enemy combatant. The aide, as Trump told the New York Post, had vouched for Coppins’ loyalties, assuring his boss that the reporter “is a friend of mine” whose story “will be fair.”