Exclusive: Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Source: Rolling Stone
Exclusive
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth
By Jacqueline Sweet
April 1, 2025
The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. {snip} Lewin has prestigious institutions and law firms on his resume, and he’s worked with a renowned liberal scholar and clerked for a progressive jurist. But his ascension at USAID, America’s foreign aid bureau, has sparked concerns among people who have known him over the years. ... Rolling Stone spoke with 10 such people, who allege that Lewin had a history of violent outbursts and racist remarks. Police records show he was also once accused of threatening a girl with a knife, asking why “he shouldn’t gut [her] and cut [her] right now.” The girl told police she feared for her life.
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“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.
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Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-usaid-jeremy-lewin-accused-violence-racist-remarks-1235307731/
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