Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski recieved some attention in political circles last night for tweeting a link to a story in Sunday's New York Times accusing current Trump manager Paul Manafort of taking $12 million from a "secret ledger in Ukraine." The story accuses Manafort of accepting more than $12 million in payments from his client, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich. "The purpose of the payments is not clear. Nor is the outcome," the Times reported.



Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief https://t.co/7bh7iIHHaY — Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) August 15, 2016

Lewandowski appeaered on CNN's 'New Day' on Monday to say that his tweeting the article was not meant as a shot at Manafort, but an attempt to highlight a media double standard.Lewandowski accuses CNN of giving more attention to unsubstantiated rumors about Trump's campaign than accusations of impropriety surrounding former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills and her association with the Clinton Foundation."You know what it does?” Lewandowski said. “It goes exactly to the point I just made. The media is now focusing on a private person who had a private business model, which no one says there is anything illegal about what he did.""As a matter of fact, he didn’t receive the money. But Cheryl Mills, the chief of staff to the State Department doesn’t make the front page of The New York Times when she is doing person favors. She is leaving D.C. on a train to come to New York. The State Department doesn’t know about it, so she can interview people for the Clinton Foundation," he continued."Paul says there was no money recieved. There is no proof any money was recieved, and Cheryl Mills was a [U.S.] government employee at the time that--," he said. "Taking emails from the Clinton Foundation and doing government favors. That is here in this country, and no one wants to report on that.""Look, if you read the story and Paul is very clear in there – he said this today," he continued. "He didn’t receive the money. The New York Times is writing a staff story, which has nothing to do with the candidate. But when it is a staffer of the Clinton campaign there is a different method."