Donald Trump s presidential campaign manager has left, a spokesperson said on Mond

ay, a further disruption to a campaign already at odds with senior Republican Pa

rty figures over his policies.
The New York Times said Trump had fired Corey Lewandowski, citing two unnamed pe
ople. Lewandowski, who had managed Trump s campaign since it began last year, did
not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A person working for the campaign told Reuters that some staffers were only lear
ning of the departure through media reports.
The Donald J Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the
Republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced
that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign, Hope Hicks,
the campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Lewandowski s departure comes as Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has fa
ced setbacks in the past two weeks.
His renewed calls to ban Muslims from entering the United States have drawn heav
y criticism from Republican politicians in Washington and prompted corporate spo
nsors like Apple and JPMorgan Chase to withhold funding from the party s July nomi
nating convention in Cleveland. Recent opinion polls show at least half of all v
oters saying they approve of the idea.