“He was pitching donors in the suites the last two nights,” said a GOP fundraiser who deals with major donors. “I don’t know how it’s going, but he’s basically attacking the other two super pacs and saying that they don’t know what they’re doing. It’s a pretty aggressive pitch.”
Lewandowski, who was fired from the campaign last month, also has a 120-day “cooling off” period before he can legally become fully part of an outside group supporting a campaign he was once running. However, because of the murkiness of coordination laws governing super PACs, he can fundraise, hire staff, build up operations, among other activities if he were to start his own.
But he can’t be directly involved with ads that specifically tell viewers to vote for Trump.
“I just don’t readily see how he can be effective starting his own new group… The market is shifting more to doing stuff than talking about doing stuff,” said an operative involved in the Trump super PAC world.
Adam Smith: “What’s the CNN standard on a paid contributor under an NDA for a candidate he’s trying to start a super PAC for?”