Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, said the controversial New York Times’ column written by an unnamed senior administration official, is proof of the so-called “deep state.”
In the column, the unnamed person said they were part of a “quiet resistance” against the president. The person claimed to be “working diligently from within” to thwart parts of the president’s agenda.
"So, if there is a movement, which this individual claims there is and I haven't seen it, that is what the deep state is,” Lewandowski said. “That is the government employees -- some of them, who have their own agenda and not the agenda of the 60 million people that voted for Donald Trump to be the president of the United States."
Lewandowski’s comment came Thursday on CNN's "New Day."
"If you don't like your job and you're disgruntled, because of what this president has done, you can find another job," Lewandowski said.
And he added: "If you don't like your job, you have a right to air that grievance, but you do so in public. And if you want to quit your job, you can do that. But attacking someone anonymously is not helpful or beneficial to anybody and it doesn't solve problems."
Trump has attacked the column as “a gutless editorial.”
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