Michael Cohen to Potential Clients: Stay Away From Corey Lewandowski
The president’s fixer sold himself as the person with ultimate access and said the former campaign manager ‘had a lot of heat on him.’
LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
05.22.18 10:09 PM ET
As Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen shopped around for shadow-lobbying clients early in the Trump era, his pitch included a piece of advice: Stay away from Corey Lewandowski.
Three sources familiar with Cohen’s work say that as he worked to build a business as a Trump-whisperer he wanted potential clients not to sign with Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager and current outside adviser, or other Trumpworld figures trying their hands in Washington’s influence industry.
According to people with knowledge of his pitches, Cohen said he had the ultimate access to President Trump, while Lewandowski wouldn’t be able to get things done. Lewandowski “had a lot of heat on him” Cohen would say, according to one person close to him.
“I have better access than Corey, is how he’d have it known,” one associate told The Daily Beast.
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