Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski blasted the White House over the handling of the Rob Porter scandal on Friday, telling Fox News that "the process they were supposed to have in place failed." Porter, the former staff secretary, resigned this week after being credibly accused of abuse by his two ex-wives. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has been at the heart of the storm after it was reported he knew Porter was going to be denied full security clearance but did not immediately fire him.
"The public reports now say that multiple people in the building were made aware of this over the course of the last few months," Lewandowski went on. On the topic of Kelly, he added: "The general is there to put in policies and processes and procedures, and in this case those didn't work and we need to find out why."
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