Donald Trump Jr. rips Lewandowski 'nonsense'

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday, holding Melania Trump's speechwriters and not campaign chairman Paul Manafort responsible for her convention speech, parts of which bore a striking resemblance to Michelle Obama's 2008 convention address.

“Paul really didn’t have anything to do with the speech," Trump told CBS' Norah O'Donnell ahead of his speech during Tuesday's convention. "Of course she had to work with speechwriters. Having never done this before, you have to work with the speechwriters. Those are the people that did this, not Paul."


“When I was the campaign manager, the buck stopped with me, and I'm sitting here with CNN now,” Lewandowski, now a CNN commentator, said earlier in the day. “I think if it was Paul Manafort, he’d do the right thing and resign. If he was the last person who saw this, and saw this happen, and has brought this on the candidate’s wife, I think he’d resign because that’s the type of person he would be. “

There is a reason, Donald Trump Jr. remarked, that Manafort "is in the position that he is today and Corey’s not."

"And it’s not because Paul’s amateur hour. It has nothing to do with that," Trump said. "I mean, listen I understand, he’s not here anymore, you want to try and maintain relevance, you want to be on TV, you want to do these things. I think at this point, you know, that’s not a service to the campaign. I think it’s nonsense.”