Look like we have another Trump administration member who fits a disturbing pattern, that of being violent generally and abusive to women. That seems to be the main credential that you need to be welcome in Trump’s good ole boys club, is to display sociopathic tendencies. Rolling Stone is reporting that USAID staffer Jeremy Lewin has a considerable history of violent outbursts and anger issues, going back to childhood.
“Hearing that he is in charge of USAID now gives me the chills,” a former acquaintance of Lewin tells Rolling Stone. “I thought he had no empathy. He was fashy, misogynistic [and] really believed Western civilization was superior. I can see him enjoying taking away humanitarian programs in Africa. It’s frightening. It’s like letting Hannibal Lecter mind kids or something.”
Seven people also allege that Lewin has a history of violent outbursts. While he was at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Lewin allegedly hit another student with a bowl in the cafeteria and was suspended, seven people tell Rolling Stone.
One witness to the bowl incident says Lewin attacked the student in the school cafeteria after the student said something that upset him and recalled the student’s nose bleeding profusely.
A different classmate tweeted in 2013 that Lewin had thrown a chair at him. In another tweet, that classmate tagged the boy who was hit with the bowl, inviting him to the “club of having [Lewin] throw things at him,” and adding the hashtag “#angrylewin.”
“Violent rages were kind of his thing,” another former classmate says. “I definitely saw him throwing things at people.”
Another incident took place out of school, at a party Lewin threw in July 2015 at his parents’ home in Newton, according to a police report and three witnesses who spoke to Rolling Stone. It was the summer after he graduated high school, when he was 18.
Police were called to Lewin’s parents’ home after he allegedly brandished a kitchen knife at a girl, three witnesses say. They remember Lewin making threatening comments toward the girl, who was a minor at the time, and describe it as feeling like a sudden overreaction. […]
“Jeremy started yelling at her and blamed her for his missing belongings,” says the police report. “[Redacted] states during the argument Jeremy pulled out a knife with an Orange [sic] handle and said ‘Tell me why I shouldn’t gut you and cut you right now.’ [Redacted] continued to tell [police officers] that she felt threatened by Lewin’s actions and she was in fear for her life. [Redacted] then left the party and had her friend drop her off at the Newton Police Station.”
In the report, Lewin told police that the girl threatened him during an argument and threw a notepad at his head. He admitted taking out a knife, but said he slammed it on the kitchen countertop and asked her to leave in response.
The knife was confiscated by police, the report says. The police officer who investigated the incident called for a hearing to be scheduled “for the charge of assault by means of a dangerous weapon.” One of the party witnesses tells Rolling Stone the hearing was ultimately canceled, for unknown reasons.
This is what’s working in government these days, in charge of your tax dollars and mine. This is who Marco Rubio has handling the remnants of USAID. One would think that Rubio would know better but evidently not. Lewin is 28 years old and worked for a couple of years as a lawyer. Another pattern continues, that of getting people with little or no experience (yes, J.D., we’re looking at you) and giving them posts wildly disproportionate to their experience and demonstrated skills level.
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