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          Shake-Up

In this June 9, 2016 photo, Donald Trump’s then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, left, leaves the Four Seasons hotel in New York after a GOP fundraiser. Trump
has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the
most tumultuous stretches of Trump’s unconventional White House bid. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                           (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

You’re Fired: Lewandowski Out as Trump Campaign Manager

JILL COLVIN                    a departure from the seat-       cern among the GOP’s top     ening relationship with the    reluctant to support him,
STEVE PEOPLES                  of-the-pants style that has      donors, operatives, elected  Republican National Com-       the person said. Trump at
Associated Press               fueled his unlikely rise in Re-  officials, and even some of  mittee, donors and GOP         least partially blamed Le-
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald         publican politics. Perhaps       Trump’s family members.      officials, who have increas-   wandowski.
Trump abruptly fired cam-      more than anyone else in         “The campaign needs to       ingly criticized the candi-    People close to Trump, in-
paign manager Corey Le-        Trump’s inner circle, the        continue to grow to be suc-  date in recent weeks. That     cluding adult children Ivan-
wandowski on Monday in         ousted aide has preached         cessful,” he said.           person spoke on the condi-     ka, Eric and Donald Jr., also
a dramatic shake-up de-        a simple mantra: “Let            Trump, the presumptive       tion of anonymity because      had long-simmering con-
signed to calm panicked        Trump be Trump.”                 GOP presidential nomi-       the person was not autho-      cerns about Lewandowski,
Republican leaders and         “I have no regrets,” Lewan-      nee, did not address the     rized to discuss internal de-  who had limited experi-
end an internal power          dowski told CNN, just hours      move publicly on Monday.     liberations.                   ence on the national scale
struggle plaguing the bil-     after he was escorted out        Spokeswoman Hope Hicks       While Trump dismissed          before becoming Trump’s
lionaire businessman’s un-     of Trump’s Manhattan             described the departure      his critics publicly, he has   campaign leader. Some of
conventional White House       campaign headquarters.           merely as a “parting of      been privately concerned       them were among those
bid. In dismissing his long-   Still, the former conserva-      ways.”                       that so many party lead-       urging the billionaire busi-
time campaign chief — just     tive activist seemed to ac-      A person close to Trump      ers — House Speaker Paul       nessman to change tactics
a month before the party’s     knowledge the limitations        said Lewandowski was         Ryan and Senate Majority       for the general election.
national convention, Trump     of his approach, which has       forced out largely because   Leader Mitch McConnell
signaled, at least for a day,  sparked widespread con-          of the campaign’s wors-      among them — have been               Continued on Page 4