{"id":122164,"date":"2021-10-01T02:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=122164"},"modified":"2021-10-01T02:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:08:26","slug":"south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-wont-use-trump-ally-corey-lewandowski-as-advisor-after-reports-of-affair-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-wont-use-trump-ally-corey-lewandowski-as-advisor-after-reports-of-affair-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won&#x27;t use Trump ally Corey Lewandowski as advisor after reports of affair, sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem&#x27;s spokesman said Corey Lewandowski will not be advising Noem anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Lewandowski was fired the night before as head of a Donald Trump-backing super PAC after allegations of sexually harassing a donor<\/li>\n<li>Noem&#x27;s cold-shoulder to Lewandowski came a day after she denied a report that she has been having an extramarital affair with the controversial political operative.<\/li>\n<li>South Dakota&#x27;s attorney general said he is reviewing &quot;concerns&quot; about Noem last year meeting with the state labor secretary and officials from a state agency that certifies real estate appraisers after Noem&#x27;s daughter Kassidy Peters was denied an appraiser certification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even the governor of South Dakota is putting Corey Lewandowski out to pasture.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kristi Noem&#x27;s spokesman said Thursday that Lewandowski \u2014 who was fired the night before as head of a super PAC backing Donald Trump after allegations of sexually harassing a donor \u2014 will not be advising Noem anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Noem&#x27;s cold-shoulder to Lewandowski came a day after she denied, on her personal and official Twitter accounts, a report that she has been having an extramarital affair with the controversial political operative.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Corey was always a volunteer, never paid a dime (campaign or official). He will not be advising the Governor in regard to the campaign or official office,&quot; Noem&#x27;s communications director Ian Fury said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>A law firm representing Lewandowski did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski for months had been acting as an advisor to Noem, a Republican who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday, Lewandowski was hit with two bombshell articles.<\/p>\n<p>One, on the conservative news site American Greatness, cited sources in a report that said the former 2016 Trump campaign manager had been having an affair with Noem, who like Lewandowski is married with children, &quot;for months.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Noem responded to that claim on Twitter, writing, &quot;These rumors are total garbage and a disgusting lie. These old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can&#x27;t achieve anything without a man&#x27;s help.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I love Bryon,&quot; Noem wrote, referring to her husband. &quot;I&#x27;m proud of the God-fearing family we&#x27;ve raised together. Now I&#x27;m getting back to work.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Politico reported that a married donor to the Trump political action committee led by Lewandowski had accused him of &quot;making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event&quot; last weekend, which included repeatedly touching her and speaking to her &quot;in sexually graphic terms.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Noem reportedly had been at the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski &quot;repeatedly touched me inappropriately, said vile and disgusting things to me, stalked me, and made me feel violated and fearful,&quot; the accuser, Trashelle Odom, said in a statement to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Two Las Vegas attorneys for Lewandowski, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, in a statement on that report said, &quot;Accusations and rumors appear to be morphing by the minute, and we will not dignify them with a further response.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday night, Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Trump, said that Lewandowski was leaving as head of the Make America Great Again Action PAC, being replaced by the former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Politics<\/h2>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#x27;s politics coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown<\/li>\n<li>Exxon Mobil has been lobbying against parts of Democrats\u2019 big social and climate spending bill<\/li>\n<li>Jan. 6 committee issues 11 new subpoenas, including for Mick Mulvaney&#x27;s niece<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;Pam Bondi, the very talented and honorable frmr AG of FL, has our complete faith and confidence in taking over MAGA Action, Budowich tweeted. &quot;Corey Lewandowski will be going on to other endeavors and we very much want to thank him for his service. He will no longer be associated with Trump World.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas police have not responded to a query by CNBC about whether they are investigating claims in the Politico report on Lewandowski.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski was charged with battery by Florida police in spring 2016 after a reporter for Breitbart News accused him of grabbing her when she tried to ask Trump a question at his Jupiter golf resort. Prosecutors declined to pursue that case, saying there was not enough evidence to convict him.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Noem to no longer use Lewandowski as an advisor came a day after South Dakota&#x27;s attorney general said he is reviewing &quot;concerns&quot; about Noem last year meeting with the state labor secretary and officials from a state agency that certifies real estate appraisers after Noem&#x27;s daughter Kassidy Peters was denied an appraiser certification.<\/p>\n<p>Kassidy Peters attended that same meeting, and later was issued a certification.<\/p>\n<p>Noem denies wrongdoing in her daughter&#x27;s case, saying on Twitter, &quot;I never asked for special treatment for Kassidy. Others went through the same process that Kassidy did.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/30\/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-wont-use-corey-lewandowski-as-advisor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem&#x27;s spokesman said Corey Lewandowski will not be advising Noem anymore. Lewandowski was fired the night before as head of a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>South Dakota Gov. 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