President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has not decided if he will take legal action against New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi after she confessed she inadvertently entered his home office without his permission.
“I can confirm I did not grant her permission to enter my office,” Lewandowski told Fox News.
According to Fox News, he is weighing taking legal action against her, but no final decision has been made so far.
“That decision has not been finalized yet,” Lewandowski said.
Nuzzi was on the property because she was working on a profile about former White House communications director Hope Hicks. She shared that she had been trying to get in contact with Lewandowski for the feature, but he only responded after the piece had been published.
In a subsequent interview about the piece, she shared how she found herself in the townhouse where Lewandowski resides.
“I tried to knock on the basement door, but the gate wasn’t open. Then I walked up the steps to the main door and knocked for, like, 10 minutes. And I’m knocking, knocking, nobody’s answering. But after a while, I just touched the door knob, and the door was open. I walked in and I’m in the house, by myself,” Nuzzi said in an interview with Columbia Journalism Review. “So I took this photo of the quote on a wall. I peered around but I didn’t walk fully into the house.”
She said she left the premises after her boyfriend warned her that “it probably wasn’t legal.”
According to Fox News, Lewandowski “apparently” lives on the floor above Turnberry Solutions and Nuzzi claims the door she “technically” opened was the Turnberry Solutions entrance.
“In September, Corey Lewandowski told Politico, ‘Get your facts right… I have nothing to do with Turnberry Solutions.’ Mr. Lewandowski, who hasn’t been registered as a lobbyist since 2011, reportedly signed a noncompete when he departed his firm, Avenue Strategies, in May 2017, which prevents him from lobbying or directing others to lobby for foreign or domestic clients for a year, according to his former partner there,” Nuzzi told Fox News.
“So it’s very interesting that Mr. Lewandowski refers to the offices of Turnberry Solutions, in his statement to Fox News, as ‘my office.’ If Mr. Lewandowski has nothing to do with Turnberry Solutions, why would he be in a position to grant or deny anyone permission to enter offices belonging to Turnberry Solutions?”
The Politico article referenced says that Turnberry Solutions was “staffed by two lobbyists who worked for Lewandowski’s old firm.” However, Lewandowski had refuted he is involved, although there is “plenty of evidence to the contrary.”
Although Nuzzi’s actions have come under scrutiny by some, New York Magazine has offered their support for her.
“We stand by Olivia’s reporting methods and don’t believe she did anything wrong,” a New York Magazine spokesperson told Fox News.
