Lewandowski Roasts Will: Only Thing Soiled Were His ‘Pants on Election Night’

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski ripped a claim that Trump and his supporters “soiled” conservatism, made by political commentator George Will, saying “the only thing that’s soiled is George’s pants on election night,” during an interview Thursday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

The Washington Post published a column from Will on Tuesday headlined, “Conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives.” In the article, Will opined, “Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients. America needs a reminder of conservatism before vulgarians hijacked it, and a hint of how it became susceptible to hijacking.”

“And every single time, the president has proven them wrong. And it’s amazing that maybe, just maybe, someday they will learn that they don’t know what the heck they are talking about.”

Will bolted from the Republican Party in the summer of 2016, citing concerns over Trump’s ascendancy in the GOP primaries.

“The only thing that’s ‘soiled’ is George’s pants on election night. That’s the only thing that got soiled, OK?” Lewandowski said Thursday. “This guy — don’t forget, he quit the Republican Party over Donald Trump! You have to remember, this was supposed to be a lifelong Republican, a person who believes in conservative values, and he had to quit the Republican Party.”

Noting that Trump “is doing exactly as the president as what he said he would do on the campaign,” Lewandowski blasted Will for being opposed to the very values he was supposed to champion as a Republican and a conservative.

“How can George Will be opposed to the largest tax cut in our nation’s history? Reducing corporate taxes, reducing personal income taxes, simplifying the tax code. How can George Will be opposed to the repealment [sic] and replacement of Obamacare, something where we’ve seen premiums in some states go up over 100 percent, and Americans not having health care coverage that they need?” Lewandowski asked.

“How can George Will be opposed to an infrastructure spending bill that says we’re going to put a trillion dollars back in so you can drive on the roads and bridges safely? How can George Will be opposed to increased spending for our military and our Homeland Security so that the people who protect us on a day-to-day basis … have all the tools that they need?” he continued.

“I don’t understand how George Will as a Republican — those aren’t Republican or Democratic values. Those are American values right across the board,” Lewandowski added. “And if George Will is opposed to those things, he’s welcome like so many other celebrities to choose to live somewhere else if they want to.”

Trump’s former campaign manager also noted that Will and other Republican and conservative naysayers are “the same people who said [Trump] would never be successful, the same people that said he would never win the Republican nomination, he cannot beat Hillary Clinton, his high-water mark is 38 percent, etc., etc., etc.”

“And every single time, the president has proven them wrong. And it’s amazing that maybe, just maybe, someday they will learn that they don’t know what the heck they are talking about,” Lewandowski said.

Trump has always faced opposition from all sides, Lewandowski noted, whether it was from establishment conservatives or liberals. And with the Left’s obsession with the ongoing Russia-collusion narrative and talk of impeachment, Lewandowski predicted that the opposition and obstruction will continue indefinitely.

“This isn’t just a legal war. This is a political war. This something the Democrats are using to try and push a narrative, which is [that] Donald Trump should be impeached,” Lewandowski said. “There’s absolutely nothing here. There’s nothing as it relates to this, which has been illegal, which has been collusion, which has been coordination. There’s nothing. But that’s the narrative the Democrats want to push, and the Democrats have the mainstream media to help them do it.”

Noting that Trump was elected “to bring change to Washington,” his former campaign manager urged the president to never lose sight of the voters who elected him.

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“I don’t think you can win your legislative battles from Washington, D.C. I think you need to take it on the road,” Lewandowski advised. “He needs to take it to the members of Congress and the U.S. Senators who are potentially blocking your legislative agenda, which is tax reform, immigration reform, repeal and replace of Obamacare, building the wall on the Southern border. I love when the president is on the road. I love it because he speaks directly to the American people.”

If he were in any position to advise the president, Lewandowski insisted he would have Trump “on the road 2-3 days a week.”

“It gives him that opportunity to go directly to the people because the networks are going to cover him and it allows him to bypass all the craziness that takes place in the White House and get out and talk to the people and hold members of Congress and the U.S. Senate accountable if they’re not moving his agenda forward,” Lewandowski said.

When Ingraham asked him about the rumors speculating he was in talks to return to the Trump team and take a communications position in the White House, Lewandowski said it would be “a very big personal sacrifice I would do if the president absolutely asked.”

“I think it’s very fair to say that I have been a loyal and steadfast supporter for the president since we turned the lights on at the campaign on day one back in January in 2015, when no one gave him a chance to be successful,” Lewandowski said. “And if I can have a role that helps him move that agenda forward, if that’s from the outside, it’s an honor and I’ll be happy to do it. If there’s something that I have a comparative advantage in that would require me to go inside the government, it’s something I’d look at.”

“But to be fair, I’ve had a very good life on the outside. I have a young family, I’d get to spend some time with them. I live in New Hampshire, as you know. I don’t have a home in Washington, D.C.,” he added. “While the allure of working for the government sounds very impressive, it’s also a very big personal sacrifice I would do if the president absolutely asked. But I think I can be very helpful from the outside as well.”