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A former Donald Trump campaign manager once terrorized a staffer by jabbing a loaded gun into his knee — and team Trump refused to step in and help the harassed employee, according to a new lawsuit.
Vincent Bordini — once an avid Trump supporter who worked for three months on the campaign as a software trainer — filed a lawsuit Wednesday against North Carolina campaign director Earl Phillip and the Trump presidential campaign for the alleged February incident.
Bordini said he decided to file the lawsuit after the campaign failed to act on the matter.
"I just wanted the campaign to care," he told the Daily News Thursday.
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Phillip — who left his post in North Carolina last week to become the deputy chair of Trump's National Diversity Coalition — stepped down from his new job Thursday, Charlotte-based station WCCB reported. He also did not attend the Republican National Convention last month.
Neither Phillip nor a Trump spokeswoman immediately responded to the Daily News' request for comment.
Earl Phillips, Donald trump's former North Carolina campaign director, resigned from the campaign after another Trump staffer sued him for jabbing him in the knee with a loaded gun.
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Bordini claimed he was driving with Phillip following a Feb. 13 campaign event when the manager whipped out a pistol.
Without saying a word, Phillip dug the barrel into Bordini’s knee, keeping his finger on the trigger as he drove, Bordini said.
“Phillip’s gun was loaded and the safety was off. A bump in the road would likely result in a bullet hole, and worse, in Vincent’s knee,” the lawsuit claimed.
The armed manager allegedly put the gun away only after his staffer asked, “What the f--- are you doing?”
“Phillip put the gun away as if nothing had happened. Phillip drove and didn’t talk about it again. Petrified, Vincent kept his mouth shut,” according to the lawsuit.
Later that night, according to the lawsuit, Bordini reported the terrifying gun incident to the Trump campaign’s regional director of Western North Carolina — who admitted Phillip had once pulled a weapon on him, too.
While talking to others about Phillip’s menacing gun tactic, Bordini says he learned of at least four other victims: Phillip allegedly pulled his gun on two other Trump staffers and two people outside of the campaign, Bordini claimed.
Bordini did not file criminal charges, fearing the move would negatively impact Trump’s campaign.
“Vince strongly supported Mr. Trump, worked for him, devoted himself to getting him elected,” Bordini’s lawyer Shaun Haermann told the Daily News. “The last thing he wanted to do was filed criminal charges.”
Instead, Bordini said he took his complaints to both Stuart Jolly, Trump’s national field director, and Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. While both promised him they took his complaint seriously, neither took action against the gun-toting director, he said.
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Bordini resigned from his post in March and hasn't volunteered with the campaign since. He said he's not sure if he'll support Trump in the November election.
“I don’t know,” he said. “It makes you reflect."
Trump, in a November press release, called Phillip a “valuable” member of the campaign’s operation in the state.
A statement by Phillip was also included in the release.
“North Carolina is a very strong Republican State that knows and understands upfront, common-sense leadership. Mr. Trump exudes that leadership. I will lead the campaign’s effort here in North Carolina to further continue that leadership,” Phillip said in the statement.
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