Corey Lewandowski Is Too Controversial — Even for Trump

The Atlantic: “When Donald Trump first won the presidency, Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager, angled for a senior position inside the White House, only to settle for an outside job as a political consultant.”

“Eight years later, Lewandowski set his sights lower. He lobbied to be named chief of staff to Kristi Noem, the incoming secretary of Homeland Security, whom he had spent years advising and promoting as a rising star within Trump’s orbit, two people familiar with the situation told us.”

“But again he was thwarted. Trump personally nixed the idea, said the people… One added that the president was concerned by the optics of Lewandowski working as chief of staff to someone with whom he had reportedly been romantically involved. (Lewandowski and Noem have denied the claims of an affair.)”