Corey Lewandowski, Former Trump Campaign Manager, Called Melania 'Beautiful' While Defending Putin Meeting

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called first lady Melania Trump "beautiful" several times during his appearance on Fox & Friends on Wednesday when he was asked about Trump’s secret second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Germany.

"Our best representative, who is stunningly beautiful and incredibly intelligent, sat next to Vladimir Putin at the request of the German chancellor," Lewandowski said referring to Melania.

"She had a conversation with Vladimir Putin. He was her dinner partner for a few hours. Big deal," he added.

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On the show, Lewandowski, who was let go from the Trump campaign in June 2016, explained the president’s second meeting with Putin during a dinner for the leaders participating in the summit and their spouses was a result of Melania sitting beside the Russian leader.

After news spread about his secret meeting with Putin, Trump took to Twitter to say that the story about his meeting was more "fake news."

Lewandowski also said the encounter between the two leaders was innocent and does not deserve the backlash and criticism it received from liberals and the media.

"And then you know what the president did, our president? He got up and he walked over and he saw his beautiful wife, the first lady of the United States, and he had a conversation with her," Lewandowski recounted.

"How is this anything other than the president of the United States going over and seeing the first lady, who by the way, speaks five languages, is incredibly beautiful, and is incredibly intelligent, and is a great representative of our country?" he said.

Besides English and her native language Slovenian, Melania is known to speak Serbian, French, and German.

Lewandowski was fired from the campaign team in June 2016 amidst allegations claiming he had assaulted a Breitbart reporter. He then went on to work as a lobbyist in Washington D.C., which he quit later on. He currently runs a political firm in D.C.

In July 2016, Lewandowski said someone should be held "accountable" regarding the passages in Melania's speech at the Republican National Convention, which appeared to have been plagiarized from one of former first lady Michelle Obama's Democratic convention addresses.

"Whoever was the staff person who wrote this speech, should be held accountable and should be fired," Lewandowski had said.

"When you do something that is so egregious that the story today is not how great Melania Trump was and how successful this convention is going to be, but it's because a staff person didn't do their job properly, there absolutely has to be accountability," he said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Melania sparked more outrage when she claimed she wrote the speech. Lewandowski had said the Trump campaign should look into the matter as soon as possible as it could have hampered Melania's reputation.

"If the staff did not do their job properly, and didn't vet the speech properly based on the larger picture and narrative that she put together, then there should be accountability. No question," Lewandowski had said.