Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is suggesting he might sue Buzzfeed over a story it published hinting that Lewandowski is a womanizer, according to an online report Tuesday.
The report said Lewandowski floated the idea of consulting lawyers about a possible response to the Buzzfeed story.
“I’m not a public person,” Lewandowski told New York magazine, referring to the Buzzfeed story authored by McKay Coppins and Rosie Gray. “I told McKay Coppins that his story was inaccurate. I told him not to publish. And he chose to run the story anyway.”
“It’s all conjecture,” he said. “Oh, an anonymous source said I did X? Does that mean I can tweet out ‘Mr. Y has had inappropriate relationships with little boys’? Where is the line?”
The Buzzfeed story relied on anonymous sources to accuse Lewandowski of making aggressive and inappropriate advances toward co-workers and female reporters.
“In conversations with reporters, [Lewandowski] has expressed frustration with female journalists covering the [Trump] campaign while also voicing a wish to have sex with them,” said Buzzfeed’s report. “And sources told Buzzfeed … that more than once, Lewandowski has called female reporters late at night to come on to them, often not sounding entirely sober.”
A statement to Buzzfeed from the Trump campaign rebutted the report, calling it “nonsense.”
Lewandowski has faced media scrutiny in recent weeks for allegedly grabbing the arm of one female reporter at a press conference and for confronting protesters at Trump rallies.
Neither Coppins nor Gray returned a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
A spokeswoman for Buzzfeed said that the the organization stands behind their story.
