Posted on 06/26/2016 5:06:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Staffers at CNN are "livid" that the cable network has hired Corey Lewandowski as an exclusive commentator after Donald Trump fired him from his campaign manager job earlier this week.
"CNN is facing a near internal revolt over the Corey hiring," a source told The New York Post's Page Six. "Female reporters and producers especially.
"They are organizing and considering publicly demanding" that Lewandowski be relieved, the source said.
Jeff Zucker, CNN's president, quickly snapped up Lewandowski after Trump dismissed him on Monday.
The presumptive Republican nominee had reacted to an ultimatum by Ivanka Trump in light of the Michelle Fields debacle in Florida in March and a Page Six report last month that Lewandowski had gotten into a shouting match on the street in Manhattan with campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
But not only are women furious at the hiring, Page Six reports.
"Latinos and others in the newsroom feel betrayed by an homage to Trump," the source said, so "they may do a public letter" in opposition.
"Everyone at CNN — and even people who used to work there — are pissed about Trump’s former campaign manager being hired on salary," another source told Page Six.
In his first on-air interview, also on Thursday, host Erin Burnett grilled Lewandowski on whether he had signed an agreement barring him from making disparaging comments about Trump, his family or his companies.
Burnett even read from a document she said had been obtained by CNN in her questioning.
Lewandowski, 42, declined to say whether he had signed such an agreement and instead had only praise for Trump.
"I feel honored to have been part of changing the American political system for the rest of our lives and hopefully so much further," he said.
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Not a dupe, but related story (coincidentally nearly the same title!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3443542/posts
Ironic that CNN wants to ride Trump’s coattails, even if with a surrogate from his campaign, and it is causing internal turmoil. Priceless!.
Good hopefully they will a quit
I’ve considered CNN staff to be revolting for a while
Snowflakes.
No one else at CNN needs to sign a disclosure; they have already pledged to themselves not to say anything too bad about Hillary.
Apparently the latina ho’s in the stable be pi$$ed Daddy done hired some gringa bottom bish....
What I really should have done in July last year was buy every bit of popcorn stocks I could have laid my hands on as an investment device.
**eats more popcorn, points and laughs at CNN employee whining**
This is totally manufactured to make liberals feel better.....they've had a really bad week and need something they can feel good about, even if they have to make it up.
They always do this. we should be getting used to it.
Fire them all, there is no shortage of journalists begging for work...... the number of positions available in the profession has contracted dramatically in recent years.
Watch the video of his interview with the CNN person. He owned her. Every stupid tricky question she asked put her deeper in the hole. Corey kicked her ass and at the same time made a marvelous endorsement of Trump.
amazing the amount of bigotry at CNN. Maybe they need some “diversity” training.
Here is the link.
The CNN staff is revolting !
They certainly are !
Probably Amanda Carpenter and Cupp.
Pray America wakes
The transcript is worth reading, if this subject is of interest.
All Trump needs to do to get free publicity is, well, anything.
Think about what’s going on here.
These so-called journalists, members of the Forth Estate, are upset that their organization hired someone from a legitimate NATIONAL level campaign, because the hate they presumptive GOP candidate?
Just how many democrat ex-campaign and ex-administration officials get hired by these same networks? They make up at LEAST half of each news network.
Oh yeah, Trump, that awful hater of women and Mexicans. Because in today’s world, legitimate criticism of a group of people is hate, and far worse than murder, torture, theft, graft, bribery, or disclosing national secrets! If you don’t KISS their asses, you be a hater of the worse kind (rich, Anglo white man).
Well BS!!! Trump as a hater is the biggest damn lie coming right from these supposed neutral reporters mouths and keyboards.
Why didn’t these same women protest when ex-Bill Clinton staffers are hired? Didn’t he rape and sexually assault women?
Oh, but that’s OK.
Well, it’s not. It’s actually far worse.
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