Let Trump Be Trump Quotes

“My Twitter account has become so powerful I can actually make my enemies tell the truth. —DONALD J. TRUMP”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“The boss has taken a lot of heat from the fake news media regarding their absurd conspiracy about collusion with Russia, which we can both tell you firsthand is ridiculous.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“It was either Hope or Corey who once asked him if he ever cried. The question stumped him. He thought for some time before he answered. “Once, I think,” he said. “When I was a baby.” It wasn’t the truth. But he never shows weakness.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Donald Trump’s mind works differently than most. His thoughts sometimes come out like pieces of a puzzle. It’s only later when you put the pieces together that you realize how much they’re worth. Sometimes the puzzle pieces form a masterpiece.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“and celebrity of Ronald Reagan, and the pure brashness of Donald J. Trump.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“in DC. Why?” Johnny put the sandwiches down on a desk. “The boss just put me in charge of the inauguration. I need to get on a train to DC.” Dave and Steve looked at each other, and then let out a laugh. As told, Johnny had brought the sandwich up to the residence. When he got there, Mr. Trump was nowhere to be seen, but the next first lady, Melania, was in the living room with Stephanie”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“One of the things we haven’t mentioned about the boss so far in this book is his presence. Any time Donald Trump walks into a room. he owns it. But it was striking to see him have the same effect on a booth filled with three- and four-star generals: the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “They’re like little kids around him,” Bannon remembered.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“By November 2016, the Obama administration had used up about 78 percent of the White House budget for its fiscal year, which begins and ends at the beginning of May. Meaning, the Trump transition didn’t have much to work with, and it left us only 22 percent of the budget, or about two and a half months of money, to pay federal salaries and upkeep costs from January 20 until the end of April. That meant, among other things, that we would have to go light on the lower-office appointments, at least for a little while.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“In spite of what’s been written and reported ad nauseam, the Jim Comey letter wasn’t the reason for the outcome on Election Day. By the end of October, we knew from the data team’s numbers that Mr. Trump had already begun to draw even with Mrs. Clinton—and we knew we had the momentum. The Clinton team was so confident (or arrogant) about their certain election victory they failed to poll in the final weeks of the campaign.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Mr. Trump ordered his advance team to book only hotels that were less than six months old. He didn’t care if it was a Motel 6 or a Four Seasons, just as long as it was brand-new. He didn’t like the dust. And if you sneezed around him, he would make you go to the back of the plane. So they decided not to tell him that part of his Secret Service protection was a sweep of the jet by a bomb-sniffing dog. Mr. Trump would have exploded had he known that some wet-nosed mongrel was all over his beautiful leather seats, never mind the dog hairs that were undoubtedly everywhere.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Though Corey didn’t care what the press thought of him, it mattered to him that he kept the job with CNN. The exposure on television was good for his career, and he got to spend his days talking about the issues that mattered to him. And, let’s face facts, it was good for the boss. Plus, the Trump severance wasn’t going to last forever. In fact, the campaign eventually paid the balance of what they owed him in a lump sum to help put the controversy to rest.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“The reason for the displeasure at Corey’s position as an on-air political commentator was partly because he was being paid simultaneously by CNN and the Trump campaign. Nearly two years earlier, when Corey had taken the job as Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, he had asked for and was given a three-month severance package in his contract. When Don Jr. fired him, his severance was extended to six months, through December 2016. Considering he was making twenty grand a month as Trump’s campaign manager,”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“For twenty-five years, Dave and Matt had done more damage to the Clinton political machine than perhaps any two other living people. One thing was for sure, they were hated by the Clinton camp. And here they were, just about to come face-to-face with Hillary. The moment got even more surreal. When Mrs. Clinton turned the corner, Bill was at her side. The couple walked straight to them and turned the corner less than five feet away. Dave looked at Matt. “Did that just happen?” he asked.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“By Vegas, we had pared the prep team back to Bannon, Kellyanne, Reince, Rudy, Chris Christie, Jared, and Dave.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Meanwhile, A.J. turned her ire on Hope, who had just about had it with A.J—Hope had simply done her job with the journalist. So Hope starts to yell back at A.J. All of this is going on as Mr. Trump is trying to read the paper. Finally, in one of the funniest moments on Trump Force One, the boss lowers the paper and yells: “Cat Fight!” And just as quickly, he went back to reading the newspaper.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“We tipped our hats to America’s Mayor. Never mind the stamina, it would take pure courage to run the Sunday-morning gauntlet. But the hero of 9/11 came through while Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Chris Wallace, and John Dickerson took turns pummeling him. We were sitting in Trump Force One”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“We did thirty-five rallies in September, compared to seventeen by Hillary. From October 1 up to and including Election Day we did 143!”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“A FEW WEEKS before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who appears on Shark Tank, went on Fox Business and said that a Trump victory in November would cause the stock market to crash.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Facebook would become our biggest fund-raising tool, bringing in some $250 million in contributions. The base and the supporters would vote with their credit card every day. Ten bucks here, five dollars there. If they liked what they heard or saw, they might give you twenty bucks. For each dollar we spent on ads, we were making around $1.70 back. Most campaigns spend a dollar and make only 70 cents.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“So when the 2016 election cycle came, the RNC was ready. All it needed was an army. Whatever campaign emerged from the sixteen-person field of candidates was going to have the entire infrastructure of the RNC at its fingertips. All it would need to do was flip the switch. On the book tour for her lament What Happened, Hillary Clinton said the Democratic National Committee’s digital operation was bankrupt and inept. “It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.” Conversely, of ours she couldn’t have been more complimentary, calling it the foundation of our ultimately successful campaign. “So Trump becomes”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“During the debates, Jared’s assistant, Avi Berkowitz, a Harvard Law grad ran what we called Trump Tower Live, a live-feed Facebook talk show that we posted pre- and postdebate.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Brad began marketing the candidate with ads on Facebook. We shot many of the videos on Dan Scavino’s iPhone. Mr. Trump would just look into the camera and talk off the top of his head about a topic we’d give him.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“All right,” he said. “Why don’t you be in charge of the Facebook? Scavino, you’re with Jared now.” Just like that, Jared was involved.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“For the first seven months that Brad worked for the campaign, Corey didn’t even know what he looked like. He was just a country voice on the other end of the phone. When he did finally meet him, Corey was like, “Whoa, big fella.” Along with being six eight, he had a buzz cut and wore an Amish-style beard. All he was missing was a plaid shirt and a giant ax.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“He would bid low again when Corey called in January 2015 looking for a website for the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign. Brad charged the campaign $1,500, and then worked overnight, hunched over his computer in his living room, on the design.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“The Democrats like to talk about how wonderful European socialism is, cherry-picking a few statistics from categories where they can show supposedly better results. But what they don’t tell you is that along with their larger welfare states, most of those countries have much less regulated economies. Denmark, for example, scored a 93.9 in the business freedom category in the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic Freedom. The United States scored 84.4. The United States has fallen to seventeenth in the world overall on that index. In 1995, we were fourth.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Rick Gates, who had somehow survived the regime change, even though Trump had instructed several people to fire him multiple times. Survival seemed to be Gates’s main talent. On either Dave’s first or second day, Mr. Trump came down to the fourteenth floor, saw Gates, and immediately told Dave to fire”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“It’s not like they didn’t know who he was. The year before, in 2015, Politico magazine ranked Dave number two in its list of the fifty most influential people in American politics. He’d been the president of Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group with over 500,000 members and supporters, since 2001.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“There’s no floor here,” Bannon told him. “It could get really bad.” Hillary was killing them on the ground, especially in the battleground states, where she had three times the number of campaign offices. At the end of August, the Clinton campaign had more than twice the number of field offices in Ohio. They outnumbered Trump’s campaign offices 34 to 1 in Florida and 36 to 2 in Pennsylvania—states without which a Trump victory was practically impossible.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

“Paul Manafort had been in charge of the campaign for eight weeks. In that time, the campaign had gone from a primary juggernaut under Corey to a death spiral. He was brought in as a delegate hunter, but the truth is he did little more than relay information from the RNC, which did all the work collecting delegates. By the time he was fired, many in the press and elsewhere believed that the race was over for Trump.”
― Corey R. Lewandowski, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency