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Corey Lewandowski, President
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, doubled down on his dismissive comment regarding a girl with Down syndrome. On Wednesday, Lewandowski tweeted that he “mocked a liberal who attempted to politicize children” after he appeared Tuesday on Fox News Channel to discuss Trump’s hard-line immigration policy. Trump’s policy has led to the practice of taking migrant children from parents charged with entering the country illegally. When former senior Democratic National Committee adviser Zac Petkanas began relating an anecdote of a “10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage,” Lewandowski cut in saying “Womp womp,” making a dismissive trombone-like sound effect. “Did you just say ‘womp womp’ to a 10-year-old with Down syndrome?” Petkansas shot back. “How dare you,” he repeated as Lewandowski attempted to speak. “How dare you. How dare you. How absolutely dare you, sir.” Lewandowski said in his Wednesday tweet that “the MSM (main-stream media) doesn’t want to talk about these policies were started under Obama.” Lewandowski’s comments on Fox News drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats. “There is no low to which this coward Corey Lewandowski won’t sink,” former Fox News star Megyn Kelly tweeted. “This man should not be afforded a national platform to spew his hate.” U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, tweeted: “Democrats don’t just represent progressive values, we also represent the middle & even the middle right because of how far the #GOP has shifted.”
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against Scott Baio stemming from allegations by his former Charles in Charge co-star that he sexually assaulted her. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office decided Monday not to file charges, saying in an evaluation that the statute of limitations had expired. Baio’s former co-star, Nicole Eggert, filed a police report against him in February, claiming that he sexually assaulted her while she was a teenager and working with him on the 1980s sitcom. Alexander Polinsky, another child actor on the show, has alleged that Baio assaulted and mentally tortured him. Baio has denied all the allegations and said that he and Eggert were in a consensual relationship when she was of legal age. An attorney for Baio, Jennifer McGrath, characterized the claims as “ever changing” and evidence of “continual hunger for publicity.” But Eggert pointed out on Twitter that the case against Baio wasn’t dismissed because of a lack of evidence but because of the age of the case.