Corey Lewandowski’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee very quickly devolved into a circus
Not here to make friends. Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images On Tuesday afternoon, former Trump adviser and probable New Hampshire Senate candidate Corey Lewandowski testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
Given that the speech sounded like it could have been written by Trump, it was no surprise that the president himself gave it his stamp of approval.Asked basic questions about his dealings with the White House by House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, Lewandowski repeated a variation of the same line — “The White House has directed me not to disclose any discussions with the president” — again and again.
When Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the committee’s chairman, asked Mr. Lewandowski if it was correct, as stated in the Mueller report, that he had met alone with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office in the summer of 2017, Mr. Lewandowski balked.
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