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Trump campaign manager Lewandowski out

By Nick Gass

Corey Lewandowski is no longer with Donald Trump's campaign, the presumptive Republican nominee's team announced Monday.

“The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican Primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,” spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The New York Times, which reported the news on Monday. “The campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future.”

Lewandowski, who had worked for Trump's campaign since it launched last June, had clashed with campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

“It’s a total cage fight in there now,” an operative close to the campaign told POLITICO last month. “Manafort tried to take out Corey, but he didn’t succeed. And now, everywhere Corey looks, he sees a threat, so he’s trying to neutralize those threats.”

Upon news of Lewandowski's departure, Huffington Post reporter Michelle Fields tweeted, "Hey @CLewandowski_ I hear @BreitbartNews is hiring"

Fields worked for Breitbart News until March, when she and the outlet's editor-at-large left the company over how it handled an incident the previous week in Florida at which Lewandowski grabbed Fields' arm to move her away from Trump as she tried to answer a question. Lewandowski was charged with simple battery but the state declined to prosecute.