Former President Donald Trump has told several campaign aides that he’s furious with his senior advisor Chris LaCivita and plans to sever ties with him as soon as the election is over.
LaCivita is one of two aides considered to be in charge of running Trump's campaign to become president.
But a report last month by the Daily Beast claimed LaCivita is raking in cash from the campaign, with several deals reportedly paying him $22 million in just two years.
“Trump has not raised the issue of LaCivita’s pay since,” The Atlantic writer Tim Alberta reported Saturday, basing the claim on conversations with several Trump staffers.
“Save for several episodes of the candidate teasingly — but conspicuously — calling LaCivita “my $22 million man!”
But, Alberta wrote, the relationship between the two has become tense, and was worsened by a CNN report that shared activity on LaCivita’s Twitter account on January 6, 2021.
It included LaCivita’s liking of a tweet that called for Trump to be removed for insurrection.
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“At that point, Trump told several people that LaCivita was dead to him — that he would ride out the remainder of the campaign, but would have no place in his administration or political operation going forward,” Alberta reported.
“That was just fine by LaCivita; he had always viewed himself as a hired gun, and his reservations about working for Trump weren’t exactly a secret.
“Still, the word that Trump had iced one of his two key lieutenants sent a shiver through the rest of the staff.”