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...<div>Donald Trump Jr. has offered his own “<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/our-testimonials/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">testimonial</a>”: “From the very first day, John has been fighting for us. He’s earned our trust and support. I enjoy being on his show!”Republican operative Pete Snyder helps underwrite John Fredericks Radio, and also offers a “<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/our-testimonials/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">testimonial</a>.” Snyder has a long résumé in conservative politics: as a pollster for Rudy Giuliani, chair of Ed Gillespie’s losing 2017 Virginia gubernatorial campaign, <a href="https://virginia.gop/pete-snyder-finance-chair/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">state finance chair</a> of the Republican Party of Virginia and Fox News commentator. He is also the founder and former CEO of the social media marketing firm New Media Strategies (NMS).Snyder <a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/our-sponsors/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">sponsors</a> John Fredericks Radio through his venture capital firm Disruptor Capital –– through which he is also a <a href="https://disruptor.com/portfolio-companies/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">major investor</a> in Echelon Insights, a Republican polling firm that surveys “Trump Country”; Media Group of America (MGA); and MGA’s conservative news and opinion publisher IJ Review. Snyder ran for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2012, at Fredericks’ urging. In the past two years, he has appeared at least 12 times on the show, whose <a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/our-sponsors/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">sponsor page</a> displays his skull-and-crossbones logo above the tagline, “All roads to the White House go through Virginia.”Other Trump-affiliated supporters of Fredericks’ show include former Trump campaign manager Lewandowski, whom Fredericks has interviewed at least 23 times. Indeed, the show sometimes broadcasts <a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/inside-lewandowski-embassy/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">from the century-old Washington rowhouse</a> where Lewandowski stays when he’s in town, and which Fredericks calls “the Lewandowski galactic headquarters.” That house is also the headquarters for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-says-it-hired-lobbying-firm-tied-to-former-trump-aide-corey-lewandowski-1527273066" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Turnberry Solutions</a>, a lobbying firm founded by Lewandowski associates. (When Lewandowski opened his previous lobbying firm, Avenue Strategies, the show’s website acknowledged the firm’s <a href="https://johnfredericksreport.com/?s=avenue+strategies" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">sponsorship</a> of the show and of Fredericks’ conservative political newsletter, the John Fredericks Report.) Lewandowski has <a href="https://johnfredericksreport.com/2017/10/10/the-john-fredericks-show-launches-in-washington-d-c-on-am-1260-the-answer/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hailed the</a> show on its homepage and in press releases as “an invaluable voice for the Trump agenda in America.”When Snyder was CEO of NMS, serving its client Fox News, he is said to have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-host-claims-fox-news-hacked-her-used-info-to-emotionally-torture-her-online" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">admitted</a> to trolling perceived enemies by various means, including <a href="https://biznology.com/2017/12/teenage-russian-troll-og/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">sock puppets</a>, under the direction of former Fox News executives Roger Ailes and Bill Shine. Snyder denies the allegation. But Fox has <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/04/18/roger-ailes-fake-news-blogs-sockpuppet/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">confirmed</a> that Ailes directed NMS’ work, and that Shine was the primary Fox executive on that account, although the network has insisted that Shine had no knowledge of sock puppets. Shine is now White House communications director.In other words, John Fredericks Radio has multiple close ties to Donald Trump and his circle. It provides Michael Scheuer a megaphone that reaches large swaths of Trump’s base – on the Internet and on radio stations in <a href="https://pilotonline.com/entertainment/tv/larry-bonko/article_8b0f66a9-9098-55d5-8d64-86818792a411.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida</a> – and directs listeners to his blog....</div>