Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski veered a bit into birther-ville Tuesday night during a heated CNN panel discussion on the presidential election.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski, now a CNN contributor, sparred with CNN political commentator Angela Rye over President Barack Obama\u2019s pointed stance against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski said Obama shouldn\u2019t use his office to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and Rye said Trump began attacks on Obama well before the election cycle with questions about his Harvard transcripts and\u00a0birth certificate \u2014 she even invoked the word \u201cbirther.\u201d<\/p>\n
With that\u00a0Lewandowski hit back and asked repeatedly if Obama ever released his Harvard transcripts before offering the biggest zinger of the segment:\u00a0\u201cDid he get in as a U.S. citizen or was he brought into Harvard University as a citizen who wasn\u2019t from this country? I don\u2019t know the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
That set off Rye and fellow panelist Bakari Sellers, who said it was \u201cblatantly disrespectful\u201d of Lewandowski to attempt to \u201cdelegitimize\u201d Obama by implying that he\u2019s actually a foreigner.\u00a0Lewandowski frequently pointed out that Rye was the one who brought up the \u201cbirther\u201d issue.<\/p>\n
Check out the fireworks below:
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