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Conservative Operative Floyd Brown Keeps Up Dirty Tricks With Western Journal Site

one of the longest-lasting symptoms of the prion disease that has destroyed the higher functions of the Republican Party ever since Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkeybrains of movement conservatism in the early 1980s is the idée fixe element of advanced Atwater Syndrome.

There is always something, somewhereabout your political opponent that remains just out of reach.So, therefore, it is permissible to just make it up on your own. Because of this parasitical agent, old ratfcking never really dies. It just goes on manifesting itself in different ways. For example, there's David Bossie.

In the early days of the Whitewater ratfcking—which, of course, included things far beyond a failed real-estate deal pitched by crooks and grifters—Bossie began in 1992 as one of the first gumshoes to embark on The Great Penis Hunt. Once, he invaded a hospital room of a man recovering from a stroke to question his wife about whether their daughter had killed herself because she was carrying Bill Clinton's lovechild.

Bossie went on to become a congressional staffer after Clinton was elected, and was so unprincipled in that capacity that he was dismissed at the behest of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who considered Bossie's tactics to be counterproductive. Being too much of a ratfcker for Gingrich is not a concept on which I wish to dwell.

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Bossie has enjoyed a storied career in ratfcking.

Bossie, as it happens, began his career in ratfcking for an organization called...drumroll, please...Citizens United, the brainchild of a ratfcker of even longer standing named Floyd Brown. (It was Brown who had concocted the now-legendary race-baiting Willie Horton ad aimed at 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.)

By 1991, Bossie was running CU and producing vicious and meretricious "documentaries," including one called, Hillary: The Movie,the purpose of which was to torpedo Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Certain television stations refused to run ads for the movie and the Federal Election Commission ruled that the movie violated the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. CU fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, which, in 2010, ruled in its favor, legalizing influence-peddling throughout the land in the process.

But what of Floyd Brown, the man who brought David Bossie, as well as Willie Horton and a whole brigade of Arkansas grifters, into our politics? The New York Times is glad you asked.

In the America presented on their news and opinion website, WesternJournal.com, tradition-minded patriots face ceaseless assault by anti-Christian bigots, diseased migrants and race hustlers concocting hate crimes. Danger and outrages loom. A Mexican politician threatens the “takeover” of several American states. Police officers are kicked out of an Arizona Starbucks. Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, proposes a “$100 billion handout” for black families.

The Western Journal is not quite a household name. Until recently, some of its most prolific writers used pseudonyms. Though it publishes scores of stories each week about national politics, the company has no Washington bureau, or any other bureaus. Indeed, it rarely dispatches reporters into the world to gather news firsthand. In the parallel universe of Facebook, though, The Western Journal has been among the most popular and influential publications in America, shaping the political beliefs of more than 36 million deeply loyal readers and followers. In the three years ending in March, according to a New York Times analysis, Western Journal’s Facebook posts earned three-quarters of a billion shares, likes and comments, almost as many as the combined tally of 10 leading American news organizations that together employ thousands of reporters and editors.

The NYTstory is hung primarily on the efforts of big tech companies to rein in sites like Western Journaland, thus, to stop being platforms from which ratfcking can be launched into the political ecosystem, which is an interesting enough story, especially since it is an article of paranoid faith on the right these days that they are being oppressed by The Man in Silicon Valley. (Google already has "blacklisted" WJ.) But it's the involvement of Floyd Brown that most interests me. Evidently, he's brought his son into the family ratfcking business as well.

Patrick Brown presents as an unlikely merchant of outrage. He is six-foot-three, but stoop-shouldered and soft-spoken. When expressing a thought that might draw dispute, he often shrugs uncomfortably and spreads his hands, as if to cushion the blow. Mr. Brown attended a small Christian college in Pennsylvania, and his first company, a site called Liftable.com, featured viral, often religious-themed stories meant to inspire readers rather than enrage them: Good Samaritans who saved the life of an accident victim, for example, or the actor Johnny Depp visiting a children’s hospital.

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Some things never change.

His exposure to politics came through his father, a larger-than-life veteran of Washington’s partisan wars. Floyd G. Brown reveled in the infamy surrounding his successful Horton ads, which featured mug shots of a black convicted murderer to stoke fears that the Democratic candidate, Michael Dukakis, was soft on crime. Over the following decades, Mr. Brown would start political organizations employing the same basic formula: Apocalyptic direct-mail appeals to raise money, innuendo-laden ads to thrash Democrats and outrageous claims to draw mainstream news interest.

Apparently, young Patrick has designs on making WJ into something akin to those "respectable" conservative news sites that only hint that jihadis are storming the southern border in pick-up trucks full of gay-married opioid smugglers. He insists that Papa Floyd is largely in the background now.

"I would never want to do what he did,” Mr. Brown said. “When you make an ad or something, you are — your whole goal is to just convince someone of something, right? I mean, our goal is not that. Our No. 1 goal is to inform — truthfully.”

And I am the Tsar of all the Russias.

In March 2018, Floyd Brown declared on Fox News that Facebook had been “optimized to the thought police.” The same month, The Western Journal published an in-house study concluding that Facebook’s algorithm changes disproportionately favored liberal news outlets. (Cameron Hickey, a disinformation researcher at Harvard, told The Times he considered the study’s methodology flawed, since it did not assess the quality or reliability of the news sources, merely their purported ideological tilt.)

It should not be necessary to point out that nothing like this exists on the political left—not with this kind of depth and not with this kind of longevity. The extreme right has engaged in ratfcking across all the platforms that have emerged since Floyd Brown first encountered Willie Horton. It has shown a remarkable—if malignant—ability to adapt and to weaponize new technologies. Old ratfckers never die. They just go digital.

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candidates who share our vision of reducing the size of government, enacting term

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CLEVELAND — End Citizens United, a political action committee aiding Democratic Senate candidates who support campaign finance reform, announced yesterday that it was spending $1.2 million for TV ads in Nevada and New Hampshire.

Informed of this yesterday morning, David Bossie erupted with a sound that was half-laughter, half-snort.

"I think they’re intellectually bankrupt," the Citizens United president said, "because what they’re doing is thick with hypocrisy."

Why should a Democratic-aligned committee be exercising its free speech rights supporting a cause that would deny them to everyday citizens? Bossie wondered.

Well, it’s complicated.

But that kind of conundrum is rhetorical fuel for David Bossie.

Many people have never have heard of him, but Bossie, a 50-year-old college dropout, is one of the most pivotal figures in the conservative movement today. Forget Donald Trump or House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). There may be no one more responsible for creating the current state of the U.S. political system than Bossie.

"He’s probably in the top five in terms of having the most political impact in the country," said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Bossie’s Citizens United is an elbow-throwing conservative group that sued the Federal Election Commission to ease limits on campaign spending. In a 2010 ruling that leaves Democrats and their allies like environmental groups stunned all these years later, the Supreme Court equated campaign donations with speech, paving the way for unlimited spending in most elections.

Sure enough, spending, by most accounts, has escalated in the last few election cycles.

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David Bossie, president of Citizens United, during a TV interview yesterday in Cleveland. | Photo by Josh Kurtz.

"The impact of Citizens United is only getting worse, and we will continue to combat the dark money that is damaging our democracy," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has introduced legislation calling for more disclosure in campaign spending, said last month.

The spending manifests itself in different ways. Campaign contribution limits continue to exist for individual donors who want to give to candidates for federal offices. But there’s no limit on individual or corporate giving to super PACs and certain other entities.

Bossie’s handiwork is everywhere: On the airwaves thick with political advertising. In the preponderance of shadowy groups with neutral names and unclear funding streams, pushing controversial agendas. Even here at the Republican National Convention, where — just like at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia — every event seems to have a surfeit of corporate sponsors.

All this has made Bossie a hero to conservative leaders.

"I think the argument that David Bossie brought that ended federal limits on campaign spending was a seminal First Amendment case, and I admire them for making that case," said Hans von Spakovsky, a former Republican appointee to the Federal Election Commission who is now a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Von Spakovsky disputed the argument that the Citizens United Supreme Court case has tilted the political playing field in favor of big-moneyed special interests.

"Just look at the Republican race this time," he said. "The idea that you can buy people’s votes just doesn’t translate. What the Citizens United [case] did was make American politics more competitive."

Bossie said Republicans and conservatives appreciate the practical impact of the Supreme Court decision, but there’s a political element they celebrate, as well.

"If you look back over 7 ½ years, very few people can say they beat Obama," he said.

In fact, the Citizens United decision so rankled the president that he lectured Supreme Court justices about it during his 2011 State of the Union address.

Bossie said he was amazed to hear Hillary Clinton say recently that during her first 30 days in office, she would move to pass a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United.

"She can forward a 28th Amendment to attack the 1st Amendment," he said. Then, reeling through the many challenges the United States is facing at home and abroad, he observed, "That, to me, is a screwed-up set of priorities. And she does it all to curry favor with the Bernie Sanders radical left."

Bossie is not one to mince words. But then, Citizens United has never shied away from controversy. The group’s co-founder, Floyd Brown, is perhaps best known as the architect of the so-called Willie Horton ad, which helped sink Democrat Michael Dukakis’ presidential campaign in 1988. Bossie himself has promoted incendiary films and books through the years — in fact, the Citizens United court case stemmed from the FEC’s decision that the group’s desire to advertise a negative film about Clinton represented a violation of campaign finance law.

In Cleveland this week, Bossie is making the rounds and meeting with old friends. He is promoting a new film called "Torchbearer," a documentary about the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson — who has himself become a conservative icon. Citizens United is screening the movie in Cleveland tomorrow.

But Bossie is also wearing additional hats: This spring, he was elected Republican national committeeman from Maryland, a role he’ll officially assume soon after the GOP leaves Cleveland. And he is the Maryland GOP’s convention chairman.

Bossie notes that he got his political start in Maryland as an 18-year-old college student and president of the Young Republicans, worshiping Ronald Reagan. "I’ve come full circle," he said.

But Bossie’s run for the national committee post was not without controversy, either. He ousted a longtime incumbent who had served in several leadership roles at the state GOP.

"It showed that the status quo was broken, just like in Washington," Bossie said.

Asked what’s next on his agenda after shaking up the nation’s campaign finance system and a moribund Maryland GOP, Bossie replied, "You mean, is there a coup de grace or something? No."

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  2. Donald Trump – $5,000

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  1. Ted Cruz (TX) – $5,000
  2. Scott Parkinson (VA) – $5,000
  3. Scott Parkinson (VA) – $5,000
  4. Alex Mooney (WV) – $5,000
  5. Kari Lake (AZ) – $5,000
  6. Bernie Moreno (OH) – $2,500

United States House of Representatives

  1. Jim Jordan (OH 4) – $2,500
  2. Jim Jordan (OH 4) – $2,500
  3. Scott Perry (PA 10) – $1,000
  4. Scott Perry (PA 10)- $1,000
  5. Eli Crane (AZ 2) – $1,000
  6. Clay Higgins (LA 3) – $1,000
  7. Chip Roy (TX 21) – $1,000
  8. Andy Harris (MD 1) – $1,000
  9. Anna Paulina Luna (FL 13) – $1,000
  10. Lauren Boebert (CO 3) – $1,000
  11. Ralph Norman (SC 5) – $1,000
  12. Byron Donalds (FL 19) – $1,000
  13. Brandon Williams (NY 22) – $1,000
  14. Matt Rosendale (MT 2) – $5,000
  15. Matt Rosendale (MT 2) – $5,000
  16. Andy Biggs (AZ 5) – $1,000
  17. Tim Burchett (TN 2) – $1,000
  18. Bob Good (VA 5) – $1,000
  19. Dan Bishop (NC 8) – $1,000
  20. Michael Cloud (TX 27) – $1,000
  21. Andrew Clyde (GA 9) – $1,000
  22. Eric Burlison (MO 7) – $1,000
  23. James Comer (KY 1) – $1,000
  24. Brian Jack (GA 3) – $5,000

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  1. Daniel Cameron (KY GOV) – $2,000
  2. Daniel Cameron (KY GOV) – $2,100
  3. Russell Coleman (KY AG) – $2,000
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Partisan hack David Bossie raised political sliming to an art form against Bill Clinton. Now he's out to smear John Kerry and Michael Moore. Why does anyone in the media still take him seriously?

By ERIC BOEHLERT

PUBLISHED JULY 20, 2004

For David Bossie, professional Clinton-era agitator and renowned Republican dirty trickster, these must seem like the good old days. During the 1990s Bossie, as a grass-roots activist and congressional staffer, was often at the epicenter of churning out stories about President Clinton, deftly feeding the press and Capitol Hill investigators outlandish -- and usually unsubstantiated -- assertions about White House wrongdoing. Once Clinton left the national stage, Bossie, a political hit man by trade, seemed adrift professionally....

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midst the mounting allegations that Russia was somehow involved with his campaign and victory, President Donald Trump is gearing up to mount a counter attack. Trump is reportedly assembling a “war room,” meant to defend the embattled president and push back against the seemingly never-ending allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. And it’s not just going to be any war room mind you. Trump is stacking the deck.

Among those rumored to be involved is David Bossie, a long-time Republican operative and former deputy campaign manager for the Trump campaign. Bossie made a name for himself during 1990’s, when he was a dogged investigator of alleged wrong-doings committed by then President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. He parlayed his notoriety and fame into the role of president of the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United, where he has written books and produced documentaries about the Clintons, among other subjects.

Since working on the Trump campaign and assisting with the transition, Bossie has been working as a contributor to Fox News, where he recently blasted the media for it’s treatment of Trump, saying that “no president has ever seen a permanent obstruction campaign like President Trump.” Regardless of the situation, any good war room needs loyalty like that.

Here’s what you need to know about David Bossie.

1. Bossie, a College Drop-out, Got Started in Politics Working for Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Campaign

Bossie was born on November 1, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of his parents’ four children. His father was an X-ray technician and his mother was a nurse. In addition to living in Boston, the family lived in Connecticut and Michigan before ending up in Maryland. Bossie first attended Towson University in Towson, Maryland and then the University of Maryland. He dropped out without earning a degree.

At 18, Bossie got his first taste of politics, working as a volunteer for President Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign. He then joined the College Republicans, worked in local Maryland elections and eventually became the youth organizer in Maryland for Senator Bob Dole when the Senator ran for president in 1988. The next few years were spent working and networking, with Bossie eventually ending up at Citizens United in 1991.

Bossie was a volunteer firefighter in Montgomery County, Maryland for twenty years. He is married to Susan Bossie. The couple have four children.

2. Bossie Began Working With Notorious Republican Operative Floyd Brown in the Early 90’s

bossie met Floyd Brown, a Republican operative, when both men were working on the Dole campaign. Brown was behind the now infamous “Willie Horton” ad, an ad which helped torpedo the campaign of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for president in 1988. Brown would go on to become the founder of Citizens United.

Brown and Bossie became a formidable and dangerous duo during the 1992 Presidential election. Bossie was tasked with investigating rumors about the sex life of Bill Clinton, the Arkansas Governor and Democratic nominee. One of their projects involved a phone line that allowed callers who were interested to call in and for only $4.99, could learn more about Clinton’s alleged sexual misconduct and history. If someone was really interested, they could even listen to sex tapes between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. Clinton’s opponent in the race, President George H.W. Bush, was appalled, saying it was “the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process.”

Bossie would go on to make a name for himself shortly after, when he was tasked by Brown to get to the bottom of the death of Susan Coleman. Coleman was a law student who had committed suicide. Brown and Bossie, among others, believed that the reason for the young woman’s suicide was that she had had an affair with Clinton, her law professor, and that Clinton had gotten her pregnant. The “investigation” received national attention when CBS Evening News filed a report in July of 1992, detailing how Bossie and Jim Murphy, a retired Washington D.C. police officer, followed Coleman’s mother as she went to visit her husband, who was recovering from a stroke at an Augusta, Georgia Army hospital.

“Here the two men burst into the sick man’s room,” CBS Correspondent Eric Engberg reported, “and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter’s suicide.”

The Bush campaign demanded that Brown stop and the Coleman’s denied that their daughter’s suicide had anything to do with a supposed love affair with Clinton. Bossie later said that the report made his grandmother cry. Brown was unfazed however.

3. Bossie Has Been Investigating the Clintons for Three Decades

Despite their best efforts, Bossie and Brown were unable to stop Bill Clinton from being elected President in 1991. The victory didn’t slow the two men down though, and if anything, they became more determined to bring down the Clintons.

In 1995 Bossie was hired by North Carolina Senator Lauch Faircloth, who was on the committee investigating Whitewater, an investigation pertaining to the Clinton’s involvement with a land purchase back in 1978. The following year Republicans launched another investigation, this one focused on the Clinton campaign’s fundraising practices. Bossie was brought on to be the investigation’s lead investigator by Republican Congressman Dan Burton, the head of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.

Bossie would only last 18 months before he was forced to resign. Numerous elected officials took issue with Bossie’s methods, specifically his selective and deceitful editing of recorded conversations between law officials and Webb Hubbell, a Clinton associate who was in jail for stealing from both clients and his law firm. Bossie had chopped up over 150 hours of tape into one neat hour and then shared it liberally with the media. Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House at the time, called Bossie “an embarrassment to the Republicans.”

Years later Bossie is still hunting for dirt on the Clintons. Since January of 2016, he has been routinely suing the State Department, seeking access to emails, agendas and travel manifests from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State.

4. Bossie Became the President of Citizens United in 2001

In 2000 Brown left the organization he had created and Bossie became president of Citizens United in 2001. Under Bossie, the organization started focusing more of their attention to producing media, mainly documentaries and books. Since 2004, Citizens United Productions has produced over 25 documentaries. In 2012 they produced Occupy Unmasked, a documentary looking to poke holes in the Occupy movement that was written and directed by current White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

citizens United Productions biggest “hit” was *Hillary: the Movie*, released in 2008. The attack ad disguised as a documentary was meant to derail Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and the film was going to be made available via On Demand in the days leading up to the Democratic primaries in January 2008. However, doing so was considered illegal under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and was strongly enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC.) Citizens United took the FEC to court, only to be denied by a three judge panel. Not to be deterred, their next move was to file an appeal with the United States Supreme Court, which they did in August 2008.

Oral arguments in the case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, began in March 2009 and in January 2010 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that spending limits included in BCRA were unconstitutional. The ruling opened the door to significantly looser campaign finance laws and the idea that “corporations were people” too.

Bossie and Citizens United have taken their fight to print as well. Bossie has authored several books since 2004, most of which are about his favorite subject, the Clintons. In 2004 Bossie wrote :{Intelligence Failure: How Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11:(style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:underline"):}: and in 2008 he wrote Hillary: the Politics of Personal Destruction. Bossie has also written books about Al Gore, John Kerry and Ronald Reagan.

5. Bossie’s Relationship With Trump Dates Back to the Citizens United Case

The relationship between Bossie and President Trump began around the time of Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission. Trump was reportedly very interested in the case and was told about Bossie by a fellow casino magnate, Steve Wynn. Trump was mulling a run for president in 2012 and Bossie piqued his interest.

When Trump did run for president four years later, he remained in contact with Bossie, and in September of 2016, made Bossie’s involvement in the Trump campaign official, naming him deputy campaign manager. Trump himself asked Bossie to join the campaign, tasking him with running the day-to-day operations and field operations, in addition to participate in debate prep, jobs that had become neglected by campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, as her media availability had started to take precedent.

In announcing the hiring of Bossie, Trump referred to him as “a friend of mine for many years,” saying that Bossie was “solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how to win.”

Following Trump’s win in November 2016 Bossie played an active role in the presidential transition, acting as the deputy executive director. This was followed up by helping to start America First Policies, a non-profit aimed at helping further the new president’s agenda. Yet when it came to officially staffing the White House, Bossie was a noticeable omission.

Undeterred as usual, Bossie moved on and with Reince Priebus being named Chief of Staff, Bossie had his eye on Chairman of the Republican National Committee position. That didn’t come to fruition either though, as one RNC source said that “leaders had been wary from the get-go of his (Bossie’s) combative, brash style.” Bossie eventually ended up at Fox News, but is reportedly still in regular contact with the president, mainly when it comes to media matters and messaging

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the latest Bloomberg Businessweek documents how the slovenly filmmaker’s dubious work product helped inspire some competition, including Dinesh D’Souza‘s “2016: Obama’s America.”

David Bossie, president and chairman of the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, produced 2008’s Hillary: The Movie, a film that led to the landmark Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which cleared the way for corporations to spend unlimited amounts supporting candidates. Bossie argues that this year’s election season is especially rife with polemics thanks to Michael Moore, whose anti-Bush Fahrenheit 9/11 earned more than $119 million domestically in the summer of 2004. (It remains America’s highest-grossing political documentary.) “Moore’s success from crossing the political Rubicon to pop culture [BS?] gave me the idea for our Supreme Court case,” Bossie says. “I’m a political guy. I saw his 90-minute film, and I said, ‘Oh my goodness. There’s no response. There’s nothing in the marketplace of ideas to counter that. And we must have a response.’?”

John Sullivan, co-director of 2016: Obama’s America, agrees. “To be honest, we kind of followed Michael Moore’s template,” he says. “If you’re going to do something of this nature, you’re going to look for where there’s the most interest, and you’re going to release something like that.”

While traditional media outlets have largely dismissed 2016: Obama’s America (“A nonsensically unsubstantiated act of character assassination,” observed Entertainment Weekly), and more conservative outlets offered praise (“The author’s film deserves to be part of the electoral discussion,” argued the site[BREITBART]  Big Hollywood), the Obama campaign’s official website publicly panned the movie as “an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the president.” The directors couldn’t have asked for more. “That obviously means … he doesn’t want you to see it,” says Bob Angelotti, a film marketing consultant. “That’s a marketing dream.”

**Mitch Kokai joined the John Locke Foundation in 2005 after spending more than four years as chief state government reporter for News 14 Carolina. The Columbus, Ohio native also has extensive experience in radio news. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.**

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the political fundraising entity run by David Bossie, the head of the controversial conservative group Citizens United and a Republican National Committeeman from Maryland who is close to President Trump, has come under scrutiny over the past week for its fundraising practices.

A joint report from *Axios*and the Campaign Legal Center found that Bossie’s fundraising organization collected $18 million over the last two years, but directed only a small portion, about 3 percent, to direct political activity, using most the rest of the money to solicit more funds, often by capitalizing on Trump’s image or Bossie’s relationship with the president. The article brought a rebuke from the Trump campaign.

A Maryland Mattersanalysis of the group’s financial activities found that a substantial portion of its overall direct political spending went to Bossie’s home state of Maryland, where prominent Republicans are standing behind him.

The 18-page Campaign Legal Center report concluded that Bossie’s fundraising entity, known as The Presidential Coalition, gave $425,442 directly to state and local campaigns since 2016. A Maryland Matters review of the coalition’s reports to the IRS revealed $93,000 on spending to Maryland candidates and political campaign committees. State beneficiaries included candidates for local boards, county executive and targeted General Assembly seats.

After the report was released last week, The Presidential Coalition released a three-page response, defending fundraising practices and attacking the Campaign Legal Center, a national political reform group that is frequently at odds with Bossie. Through his work at Citizens United, Bossie has challenged federal campaign finance limits – and the landmark 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United decision has unleashed unlimited political spending in elections.

In part, The Presidential Coalition’s response stated that the analysis “totally ignores the legitimate staff, infrastructure and other political activity costs associated with the organization’s work” and the higher costs of soliciting small-money donations.

Fundraising under fire

The Campaign Legal Center’s analysis focuses on the explosion in fundraising success by The Presidential Coalition since Trump was elected in 2016. That year, The Presidential Coalition raised less than $1 million.

But in 2017 and 2018, the numbers increased dramatically to $5 million and $13 million, respectively.

Solicitations from The Presidential Coalition feature Trump’s election in several ways, including photos of him, and, on at least one mailer, a return address label that features an image of the White House and the anagrammatic 1006 Pennsylvania Avenue address of Citizens United, which Bossie has led since 2001.

The mailers also frequently address Bossie’s relationship with the president; he served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager and is also Maryland’s national committeeman to the Republican National Committee.

Some of The Presidential Coalition’s solicitations in the past two years have promised copies of Bossie’s book “Trump’s Enemies” – co-written with the president’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski – if donors give over a certain amount, often $45.

The Presidential Coalition spent $445,972 on purchases from book retailers in the last two years. But The Presidential Coalition’s response to the Campaign Legal Center/Axiosreport saidonly “a small amount” was spent on his book, while the bulk of book premiums were for copies of “Trump’s America,” by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

“TPC members are very excited to receive these books and DVDs,” the coalition wrote.

Most of the donations The Presidential Coalition receives are in small sums. About $12.2 million of the $18.5 million raised in the last two years came from donors who gave less than $200 per year and thus don’t have to be publicly disclosed on the coalition’s tax filings.

Of the donors who gave more than $200 in a year, a majority listed their occupation as retired and the average donation amount was still relatively small, $225.

In Maryland, The Presidential Coalition’s donations also came primarily in small-dollar amounts and from a number of donors who identified themselves as retirees.

In 2017, at least 70 Marylanders donated $31,106 through 180 donations to The Presidential Coalition.

In 2018, 127 Marylanders gave $55,383 through 265 donations.

The donations included:

There were a few large donors from Maryland, who gave donations greater than $1,000 at a time, including a retired woman from Owings Mills who made four donations of $6,300, $2,000, $1,000 and $250.

More than 57 percent of the donations from Maryland were for $100 or less.

The Campaign Legal Center report said the elderly can be particularly vulnerable to fundraising appeals and that the small donations solicited by The Presidential Coalition detracted from other political giving that could have had a greater impact on campaigns.

“…The Presidential Coalition’s ongoing activities … not only mean that vulnerable voters are getting misled, but they also mean that the conservative movement’s limited financial resources are being diverted away from more effective political organizations – or from President Trump’s own campaign,” the report says.

After the Axios story and report were published, Trump’s campaign condemned any organization that uses the president’s likeness deceptively.

“There is no excuse for any group, including ones run by people who claim to be part of our ‘coalition,’ to suggest they directly support President Trump’s re-election or any other candidates, when in fact their actions show they are interested in filling their own pockets with money from innocent Americans’ paychecks, and sadly, retirements,” the campaign responded in a statement to Axios. “We encourage the appropriate authorities to investigate all alleged scam groups for potential illegal activities.” [gfx w/ cands who got 4?]

Support in Maryland

Support for Bossie remained strong among Maryland Republicans in the days after the reports were published.

The coalition has a history of supporting candidates in Maryland and Virginia specifically, and lists involvement in state races dating back to 2013 on the website stopmarylandliberals.com.

State Sen. Michael Hough (R-Frederick), a leading party fundraiser in the state, said Bossie has been helpful to conservatives in the deeply Democratic state for years, especially before the Republican Party found a figurehead in the ever-popular Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.

“There are very few people I can think of over the last 10 years who have been more consistently helpful to conservative candidates in this state than David Bossie,” Hough said in a telephone interview on Friday.

Bossie and The Presidential Coalition have bolstered Hough’s campaigns, and the senator said he meets annually with Bossie to talk about fundraising strategies for key races in the state.

In 2017 and 2018, The Presidential Coalition made 35 donations to 26 campaigns, including $5,000 to Hough.

Other notable donations included those to support Republicans in the state party’s “Drive for Five” effort to break the Democratic supermajority in the Maryland Senate last: Mary Beth Carozza ($6,000), Bill Dotson ($3,000), Ron George ($6,000), Craig Giangrande ($3,000), John Grasso ($2,000) and Christian J. Miele ($6,000). Only Carozza won her race, and she now represents the Lower Shore in the Senate.

Other members of the General Assembly received support in successful campaigns, including House Minority Leader Nicholaus R. Kipke (R-Anne Arundel), House Minority Whip Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore County), Del. Matthew Morgan (R-St. Mary’s) and Sens. Justin Ready (R-Carroll) and Johnny Ray Salling (R-Baltimore County).

Szeliga was among the lawmakers contacted by Maryland Matters who offered support for Bossie.

“I’ve known Dave Bossie for many years,” she said in a written statement. “Dave is a true patriot and conservative leader who made history defending free speech in the landmark SCOTUS case Citizens United,” Szeliga wrote on Saturday. “I am not surprised that the liberal establishment is attacking him as we approach the next election. He has been very effective in helping elect President Trump and other conservative candidates across the country.”

Ready said Bossie and The Presidential Coalition have been helpful to his campaigns, boosting him as a young conservative in early races.

Bossie’s Maryland supporters also noted that an organization’s full impact can be more than just direct political contributions.

Bossie’s relationship with fellow Maryland Republicans has not been without controversy or tension, however. In 2016, Bossie ousted Louis Pope, a longtime stalwart of the state GOP associated with the party’s more moderate wing, to become Maryland’s Republican National committeeman. And he has been aggressively lining up Free State Republicans to support Trump’s reelection even as Hogan publicly ponders a longshot GOP primary challenge to the president.

Bossie’s four-year term as a national committeeman ends a year from now. He is eligible to seek reelection – and the decision on whether to grant Bossie a second term will be made at next spring’s semi-annual Maryland Republican convention.

‘Left-wing smear tactics’

Bossie did not respond to Maryland Matters’ requests for comment last week.

Neither Citizens United – where press questions about the report were directed – nor three Maryland companies that were prominent vendors for The Presidential Coalition, responded to questions about the coalition’s indirect support for candidates or the content of publications made on behalf of the coalition.

The coalition’s response to Axios said that its political activities include “internal membership activities” that aren’t subject to disclosure on state or federal campaign finance reports, and the coalition’s 2017 tax return claimed it spent $5.4 million on “political campaign activities” including “polling and surveying of members and the public, communications with members and the public on issues and matters relating to the appointment and election of individuals to public office.”

But the Campaign Legal Center’s report said evidence doesn’t back up such claims of indirect candidate support. The coalition’s mailers exclusively focus on raising more funds and not on calls to action on behalf of candidates and independent expenditures on behalf of candidates don’t show up in state or federal campaign finance reports, the Campaign Legal Center report noted. The telemarketing firms hired by The Presidential Coalition, which were paid more than $1 million over the last two years, also specialize in direct marketing campaigns rather than political fundraising or advocacy, the report stated.

“Simply put, there is a vast chasm between what the Presidential Coalition is telling its majority-small-dollar donors and how it is actually using the funds,” the report states.

The Campaign Legal Center suggests a number of solutions to monitoring The Presidential Coalition’s fundraising activities, which it says “fall into a legal grey area,” including limiting “personal use” expenses for 527 organizations like The Presidential Coalition, revoke the tax exempt status of such groups, or at the state level, requiring tax-exempt organizations to devote a certain percentage of donations to program activities.

While the Campaign Legal Center pointed out that states have been cracking down on deceptive fundraising and fraud practices in recent years, The Presidential Coalition said it is being “unfairly targeted by left-wing smear tactics because we are outspoken defenders of the President.”

“We will never back down,” the statement concluded.

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David Bossie, professional Clinton-era agitator and renowned Republican dirty trickster, these must seem like the good old days. During the 1990s Bossie, as a grass-roots activist and congressional staffer, was often at the epicenter of churning out stories about President Clinton, deftly feeding the press and Capitol Hill investigators outlandish -- and usually unsubstantiated -- assertions about White House wrongdoing. Once Clinton left the national stage, Bossie, a political hit man by trade, seemed adrift professionally.

But with the emergence of a new political campaign and a new Democratic presidential candidate, Bossie has returned to his partisan groove. This week sees the publication of his quickie attack biography, "The Many Faces of John Kerry," which is sure to garner him cable-TV face time during and after next week's Democratic Convention, as bookers seek out Kerry critics to liven up their coverage. This product comes on the heels of Bossie's May release, "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11," in which Bossie reinvents himself as a national security expert and blames Clinton (of course) for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In June, Bossie hit a publicity -- and presumably fundraising -- geyser when the archconservative Citizens United group, of which he is president,filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, insisting that TV ads for Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," if aired after July 31, would violate new campaign finance laws because they double as political advertising. The FEC has not ruled on the matter, but the complaint itself once again thrust Bossie into the media limelight.

Topping off Bossie's comeback was the recent release of Clinton's memoir, "My Life." Not only did that publishing phenomenon give Bossie yet more opportunities to spout off against Clinton in the media, including an anti-Clinton attack ad broadcast during the former president's "60 Minutes" interview, but the book also solidified the unusual status Bossie had achieved. Anyone who gave Clinton's hefty book the Washington read (that is, a quick skim of the index pages) quickly discovered that Clinton made several mentions of Bossie.

"How often does a president know the name of a Hill staffer?" asks Glenn Ivey, who battled Bossie during the congressional Whitewater investigation. Ivey served as Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes' counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee, while Bossie worked behind the scenes as a staffer for congressional Republicans. "That's a strong statement as to the level, the profile, Bossie has developed."

Ivey rarely, if ever, agreed with the relentlessly partisan Bossie during the investigation. Yet he did see something he admired: "I respected the energy David brought to the enterprise. He was their driving force." One of Ivey's former congressional colleagues, who was also immersed in the perpetual Whitewater investigation, is less generous, recalling Bossie as "a lunatic."

Bossie's style during the investigation was to lob scattershot allegations toward an appreciative press corps that rarely seemed upset when the charges he gave them to amplify -- that Whitewater was a criminal enterprise, for instance -- failed to pan out as factual. As Democratic strategist James Carvilleonce put it, "He made collective fools out of about 80 percent of the national press corps." But none of this appears to have marred Bossie's reputation with reporters, even when then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- no stranger to hardball partisan politics -- reportedly ordered Bossie fired from his congressional staff position in May 1998. Bossie had overseen the bungled release of supposedly incriminating recordings of Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell's jailhouse phone conversations about Hillary Rodham Clinton -- recordings that had been edited, deleting obvious exculpatory remarks.

Now some critics wonder how a political prankster like Bossie has managed to maintain respectability in Washington, particularly among the press. A Nexis search retrieves more than 100 press references to Bossie this year, with MSNBC proving to be especially accommodating toward him. "Pat Moynihan had that wonderful phrase about defining deviancy downward. Now we're defining credibility downward if we take David Bossie seriously," says former Clinton aide Paul Begala. "There are a lot of credible critics of Democrats. David Bossie is not one of them."

"We've evolved into celebrity journalists. We judge them by Hollywood standards; if you're big enough, it doesn't matter why or how you got big in the first place," says Gene Lyons, coauthor with Joe Conason of "The Hunting of the President," which details many of Bossie's misadventures. "Now the same is true with political operatives. The fact that Bossie's name is known and he's achieved a certain celebrity status trumps the fact that he achieved that celebrity status by making shit up and twisting evidence to vilify Democratic politicians. He's a modern-day Donald Segretti," says Lyons, referring to the young Republican attorney hired by Richard Nixon's 1968 election team to sabotage Democratic campaign events -- "rat fucking" is what Segretti and his buddies called the tactic.

Bossie, through his spokeswoman, declined to comment for this story. So did Citizens United's founder, Floyd Brown.

Bossie joined Citizens United in 1992 as its director of political affairs, which he quickly transformed into a full-time job of hounding the Clintons. The group was essentially a two-man operation. Four years earlier Citizens United had produced the infamous race-baiting Willie Horton ad. "That spot was, is, will ever after be a nightmare," GOP strategist Mary Matalin once told the Chicago Tribune.

In fact, in 1992, Bush's father condemned Bossie and Brown's gutter practices, telling reporters: "We will do whatever we can to stop any filthy campaign tactics." During that same campaign, George W. Bush, on his father's behalf, even sent out a letter to 85,000 Republican contributors encouraging them not to contribute to Brown and Bossie's effort.

"What does the RNC [Republican National Committee] say about Bossie today?" wonders Begala. Terry Holt, spokesman for the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign, did not return calls seeking comment regarding  Bossie, whose group bankrolled an anti-Kerry ad earlier this year.

The press has also been hesitant to discuss, or dissect, Bossie's current role. For instance, during the controversy surrounding the release of "Fahrenheit 9/11," many news outlets, including the New York Times in a June 27 article, simply identified Bossie as the president of Citizens United. But the Times is well acquainted with Bossie's modus operandi; he has boasted about feeding information to its reporters, especially Jeff Gerth, every step of the way in their ill-advised, and since discredited, Whitewater investigation. "We have worked closer [on Whitewater] with the New York Times than the Washington Times," Bossie's colleague Brown once bragged to the Columbia Journalism Review.

And as the Washington Times noted, Bossie made a deal to leak the Senate Whitewater Committee's final report to the New York Times. Yet years later, when Bossie reemerges in the news as a critic of "Fahrenheit 9/11," to unsuspecting Times readers he's described simply as another grass-roots Republican activist.

"At the very least, you'd expect viewers and readers to learn Bossie was fired for doctoring tapes," says David Brock, the president and CEO of Media Matters for America, a liberal online research and monitoring organization. "That doesn't seem like the type of person whose words are worth much."

"As a principle I'd agree readers ought to know where particular sources are coming from," says Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, who has dealt with Bossie for many years. "On the other hand, I don't think David Bossie makes any secret about what his agenda is and where he's coming from."

In the past, reporters who fed off Bossie's wayward leaks were reluctant to shed light on his ability to engineer stories behind the scenes. In the early 1990s, the press printed and broadcast verbatim the Whitewater allegations being leveled by Citizens United and its ready-made press packets. Yet reporters rarely made public the source of their Whitewater leads. As the Columbia Journalism Review noted at the time, the press "has shamelessly taken the hand-outs dished up by a highly partisan organization without identifying the group as the source of their information."

"There's no doubt journalists have been compromised by [Bossie]," says Begala. "Once [they] make a commitment to somebody like that, they stick with him through thick and thin."

Adds Ivey: "If you look at how the press covered Bossie's ethical lapses and compare it with how they covered ethical issues raised about the Clinton administration, he really got kid gloves -- because reporters were the ones he had been feeding information to."

Bossie has generated unusual loyalty from some in the press corps. "Dave Bossie has never lied to me, and the Clinton White House has lied to me," ABC News producer Chris Vlasto notoriously told the Washington Post in one of its several Bossie profiles in the 1990s. Vlasto, who did not return a call for comment for this story, made that statement in 1997, five years after the accusations about Whitewater were first raised and two years after the Clintons were exonerated by the Resolution Trust Corp., whose conclusions were confirmed by every subsequent official investigation. "On this record," the RTC reported, "there is no basis to charge the Clintons with any kind of primary liability for fraud or intentional misconduct ... It is recommended no further resources need be expended on the Whitewater part of this investigation." Yet those reporters who subsisted on Bossie's handouts, including some at the New York Times, the Washington Post and ABC News, did not report the RTC's vindication of the Clintons. ABC's Vlasto, who had invested mightily in the Whitewater story, insisted in '97, "If it comes down to a question of whom do you believe, I'd believe Bossie any day."

Reporters weren't the only ones who paid a price for cozying up to Bossie. During the 1990s he worked most closely with four members of Congress investigating Whitewater and other Clinton-related matters: Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C.; Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y.; Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind.; and Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa. Bossie served as Faircloth's personal aide on the Senate Whitewater Committee and later as Burton's chief investigator on the Government Reform Committee. He was also a key source of Whitewater allegations for Leach's press spokesman, Joe Pinder, and personally funneled information to D'Amato. None of these four politicians survived their reliance on Bossie with their political reputations unblemished, and two -- Faircloth and D'Amato -- were voted out of office in 1998.

The truth is that Democrats saw Bossie as something of an insurance policy during Whitewater and subsequent Clinton hearings, because with him onboard the inquiries would never be taken completely seriously. After all, it was reportedly Bossie who urged Burton to reenact the death of former White House deputy counsel Vince Foster by shooting bullets into a melon in the backyard of the congressman's Indiana home.

Bossie's habit of shooting himself in the foot, or at least his political allies' feet, persists to this day. Despite his prediction on the eve of its release that "Fahrenheit 9/11" would "go nowhere," the movie became the most successful documentary ever made and is likely to be one of the summer season's most profitable films. Of the movie's historic $24 million take during its first weekend in theaters, one could argue that some large portion may be the result of Bossie's publicity campaign against it, which in many news accounts was rendered in the shorthand "Group tries to censor anti-Bush movie." Moore has promised to send Bossie a holiday card later this year to express his gratitude for Bossie's help in creating a bonanza for the film.

Bossie stands in a long and dubious tradition of political attack hacks whose hyperaggressive tactics frequently lead them to step over the line of fair play. On the media side, the granddaddy of the GOP hit men, credited with creating the modern attack ad, is Alex Castellanos, who is now producing commercials for the Bush-Cheney campaign. In 2000, for instance, Castellanos embarrassed the Bush campaign when someone discovered that an attack ad he had produced flashed the word "rats" on the screen for a split second. Castellanos denied using subliminal advertising, but put on the defensive, Bush had to yank the spot.

Bossie has engaged in such questionable or downright slimy tactics on many occasions.Here are some of his more famous misses:

The breaking point came in May 1998, when Bossie, then 32, oversaw the release of the doctored Hubbell tapes. As Roll Call reported at the time, "At Bossie's request, Burton sat on the tapes for nearly a year until word started to leak that Hubbell might be indicted by [Kenneth] Starr for tax evasion. Bossie, who supervised the tapes along with investigator Barbara Comstock, oversaw the editing of Hubbell's prison conversation[s] and decided to release them the day before Hubbell was indicted." According to Roll Call, Bossie enjoyed unusually close working relations with Starr investigators.

The tapes were edited for "privacy" considerations, according to Bossie. But they were also edited to completely omit key exculpatory passages, including one in which Hubbell exonerated Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. Gingrich ordered a reluctant Burton to fire Bossie.

Yet, in 1999, Bossie was given the Ronald Reagan Award by the Conservative Political Action Conference for his "outstanding achievements and selfless contributions to the conservative movement."And it wasn't just the conservative base that continued to embrace Bossie after the Hubbell tape disgrace; so did many in the Washington press corps.

It's hard to imagine that if a high-level Washington operative with a rap sheet like Bossie's even existed on the left, he or she would be celebrated by the Democratic Party or courted by the press the way Bossie has been. "There are kooks on the left, no doubt about it, people who believe Bush is guilty of murder," Begala says. "The difference is, journalists don't pay attention to kooks on the left, and neither do Democrats."

When the Clintons exited the White House, Bossie seemed rudderless as he jumped from one political target to the next.During the 2000 presidential campaign he coauthored another quickie attack book, "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore," but it didn't seem to play much of a role in the disputed election. During the summer of 2001, Bossie played the Gary Condit game, going on cable TV to tie the Democratic congressman to a dead intern. ("Gary Condit doesn't have much credibility left," Bossie said.) No evidence linking Condit to the murder ever emerged, and he was never charged. The next year, when the Enron scandal broke, Bossie appeared on Fox News and repeated GOP talking points that both political parties deserved blame because, after all, Enron's former CEO, Kenneth Lay, slept in the Lincoln bedroom once while Clinton was in office. But that in fact never happened.Also that year, Bossie appeared on TNN'S late-night show, "Conspiracy Zone With Kevin Nealon," where he dissected, yet again, the supposed mysteries surrounding the suicide of Clinton aide Foster. Plus, Bossie guaranteed that Sen. Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2004

In early 2003, Bossie's group released a pro-Iraq War commercial starring former Tennessee senator and "Law and Order" actor Fred Thompson -- to "combat the left-wing propaganda" Bossie asserted was coming from Hollywood. Bossie also made TV appearances to rail against France for its Iraq stance and call for an American boycott of French products.

This spring Bossie returned to his roots, producing an anti-Kerry ad that used recent "priceless" MasterCard ads to parody "another rich liberal elitist from Massachusetts." (According to Bossie, the ad's light touch was meant to stand in contrast to the left's "hate-filled speech and vitriol" aimed at Bush.) The spot, actually seen by very few TV viewers, produced a nice publicity bump for Bossie as the same network of reporters and pundits he'd cultivated for years with tips and leaks welcomed him into the unfolding campaign coverage. MSNBC's Chris Matthews announced on "Hardball": "Let me go to David Bossie. That ad is great, by the way."

Bossie's press welcome extended into May, when he began promoting his polemic claiming Clinton was responsible for 9/11. In June, Bossie boasted to the Washington Times that he is "one of the few people who actually know the facts about Whitewater, Travelgate, campaign finances and the Monica Lewinsky affair," and declared, without citing any facts,that Clinton's just-released memoir was not truthful.

Then came the "Fahrenheit 9/11" press bonanza and Bossie's self-styled cameo featuring the FEC. Thanks to Citizens United's filing, the FEC is considering a ban on the movie's TV ads because thenew campaign finance law prohibits corporate-funded ads that identify a federal candidate just before a primary or election. For purposes of the law, the Republican National Convention, which begins at the end of August, is considered a primary. The same ban would hold for 60 days prior to the general election in November.

What is odd about this is that if the FEC ultimately agrees with Bossie on the ads, all Moore has to do to make them legit is to replace Bush's fleeting image in the TV ads with someone else, such as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In addition, Moore's distributor spent a relatively tiny $3 million on TV advertising on the eve of the movie's premiere, and the chances that it will spend anything in August are very slim.

Even the editorial page at the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post mocked the notion that ads for a movie should be regulated for political content. "Have affairs really come so far that government has vested in itself the power to constrict the political debate -- right before an election, when voices and opinions matter most?" the paper asked.

Yet Bossie, once again, insists that the fight is about the rule of law and taking on a proven liar. During an online discussion hosted by Washingtonpost.com, Bossie insisted that Moore "never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. He doesn't exactly have a track record of credibility. His reputation as a liar are well documented."

For those who have watched Bossie wrestle with the truth over the years, that's a curious claim for him to make.

By ERIC BOEHLERT

Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, is the author of "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush."

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Update: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, through a spokeswoman, denied attending the Jan. 5 meeting. Facebook and Instagram posts appear to tell a different story.

The night before the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville and the then-director of the Republican Attorneys General Association met with then-President Donald Trump’s sons and close advisers, according to a social media post by a Nebraska Republican who at the time was a Trump administration appointee. 

Charles W. Herbster, who was then the national chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Advisory Committee in Trump’s administration, in a Facebook post at 8:33 p.m. on Jan. 5 said that he was standing “in the private residence of the President at Trump International with the following patriots who are joining me in a battle for justice and truth.”

Tuberville, through a spokeswoman Tuesday, told APR that he did not attend a Jan. 5 meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

Among the attendees, according to Herbster’s post, were Tuberville, former RAGA director Adam Piper, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, adviser Peter Navarro, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and 2016 deputy campaign manager David Bossie. 

RAGA’s dark-money fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, paid for robocalls directing people to the March to Save America and rally, which took place just before the Capitol attack.

Herbster attended the Jan. 6 rally, but said he left before the riot, according to the Omaha World-Herald. The newspaper also reported that Herbster “also met Tuesday in Trump’s private residence in his Washington, D.C., hotel with Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and other campaign advisers.”

“They discussed how to pressure more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results that made Joe Biden the winner,” The Omaha World-Herald reported.

Flynn earlier on Jan. 5 spoke at a rally of pro-Trump supporters in support of Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud.

“We stand at a crucible moment in United States history. This country is awake now,” Flynn told the crowd, according to numerous news outlets.

Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, spoke at the rally prior to the Capitol attack, telling the crowd: “Today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.” Right-wing political activist and an organizer of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, Ali Alexander, in videos posted on social media claimed that Brooks was involved in the planning of the rally that day, meant to pressure lawmakers inside the Capitol as they prepared to vote on certifying the Electoral College votes.

The Jan. 5 meeting, as discussed in the Facebook post, was first reported by journalist Seth Abramson on Tuesday. Abramson in his article states that it’s unclear if Trump himself attended the Jan. 5 meeting at his hotel.

“I’ve dedicated my life to promoting and preserving the American Dream. Tonight, as I look at our nation’s flag, I’m reminded of the battles and blood spilled to protect our way of life,” Herbster wrote in his post:

Charles W. Herbster, who was then the national chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Advisory Committee in Trump’s administration, in a Facebook post at 8:33 p.m. on Jan. 5 said that he was standing “in the private residence of the President at Trump International with the following patriots who are joining me in a battle for justice and truth.”

In numerous photos posted to his Facebook page in the months prior to the Jan. 5 meeting, Herbster can be seen posing with Trump and Trump’s sons and close advisors.

APR sent questions to a Tuberville spokesperson asking whether the senator had attended a Jan. 5 meeting with Trump, Piper and others at his hotel, and if so, why was he called to the meeting and what was discussed. The Tuberville spokeswoman replied in an email: “the answers to your questions are No and Not Applicable.” Attempts to contact Herbster on Tuesday were unsuccessful.

As pro-Trump supporters, far-right groups and militia members were breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani both mistakenly called Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah while trying to call Tuberville, according to multiple news accounts, a recording of a voicemail message by Giuliani left for Tuberville and statements by Lee. 

In the recorded voicemail message mistakenly left on Lee’s phone, first reported by The Dispatch, Giuliani asks Tuberville to stall the counting of electoral votes.

“I want to discuss with you how they’re trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more information to you,” Giuliani said in a voicemail.

Piper resigned as director of RAGA on Jan. 12 following much public scrutiny over robocalls paid for by the Rule of Law Defense Fund.

“Every decision Adam made on behalf of RLDF was with the best of intentions and with the organization’s best interests in mind,” Marshall said in a statement at the time. “Adam leaves a void that will be difficult to replace, but we wish Adam well as he pursues other opportunities that will allow him to spend more time with his family.”

Marshall has not publicly said why Piper resigned. Attempts to reach Piper for comment Tuesday were not successful.

RLDF was listed as a participating organization for the Jan. 6 “March to Save America” on the march’s website. The website is now down, but archived versions show RLDF as a participating group. Prior to the protest, RLDF sent out robocalls detailing when and where citizens should meet for the Jan. 6 rally, which was first reported by the watchdog investigative journalism group Documented.

“I’m calling for the Rule of Law Defense Fund with an important message,” the robocall stated, according to Documented. “The march to save America is tomorrow in Washington D.C. at the Ellipse in President’s Park between E St. and Constitution Avenue on the south side of the White House, with doors opening at 7:00 a.m. At 1:00 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal. We are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue to fight to protect the integrity of our elections. For more information, visit MarchtoSaveAmerica.com. This call is paid for and authorized by the Rule of Law Defense Fund, 202-796-5838.”

“Serving Republican attorneys general has been the honor of a lifetime and honestly a dream job,” Piper said in a statement on his resignation, according to the Associated Press.

In a statement to APR on Jan. 7, after APR’s story on the matter had published earlier that day, Piper said neither RAGA nor RLDF was involved with the planning of the rally and seemed to place the blame on staff.

“The Republican Attorneys General Association and Rule of Law Defense Fund had no involvement in the planning, sponsoring, or the organization of yesterday’s rally,” Piper said in the statement at the time. “No Republican AG authorized the staff’s decision to amplify a colleague speaking at the rally. Organizationally and individually, we strongly condemn and disavow the events which occurred. Yesterday was a dark day in American history and those involved in the violence and destruction of property must be prosecuted and held accountable.”

Marshall, in a statement to APR on Jan. 8, blamed unnamed RLDF staff and said he was not aware of his organization’s involvement:

“I was unaware of unauthorized decisions made by RLDF staff with regard to this week’s rally. Despite currently transitioning into my role as the newly elected chairman of RLDF, it is unacceptable that I was neither consulted about nor informed of those decisions. I have directed an internal review of this matter. As I said yesterday, I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the actions of those who attempted to storm the U.S. Capitol, a place where passionate but peaceful protestors had gathered and lawmakers debated inside. Our country is built upon the foundation of the rule of law. American democracy guarantees the right of peaceful protest. Those who chose to engage in violence and anarchy should and will be held accountable under the law.”

Marshall, speaking to The Montgomery Advertiser on Jan. 12, after a press conference on human trafficking and before Piper’s resignation was announced, said the internal review was ongoing. Asked by the Advertiser whether he felt Trump bore any responsibility for the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday, and for comment on Trump’s potential impeachment, Marshall declined to comment.

“I didn’t see anything about the rally,” Marshall said, according to the newspaper. “I don’t know anything about his remarks.”

APR’s questions to Marshall’s office Tuesday about the status of Marshall’s investigation into the matter, and whether he has learned of Piper’s possible attendance at that Jan. 5 meeting, weren’t immediately answered.

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David Bossie: Manchin and Sinema are not moderates

Manchin and Sinema appear poised to be in favor of a spending spree figure somewhere below $3.5 trillion

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With all the legislative backflips happening as Congress considers massive trillion dollar spending bills, it’s high time for a fiscal reality check.

Our national debt is currently $28.4 trillion. Our federal budget deficit is $2.7 trillion. By comparison in 1988 -- just 33 years ago -- our national debt was "just" $2.6 trillion and the federal budget deficit was a paltry $155 billion.

The current fiscal situation is so dire, so out of hand -- and the dollar figures so enormous -- they’ve become almost impossible for the American people to comprehend.  And, the Democrats’ latest $3.5 trillion boondoggle is no exception.

There are two Democrats in the United States Senate -- in a caucus of 50 -- who’ve spoken out in recent months about the monumental price tag of the aforementioned $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.  Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have been working overtime trying to paint themselves as moderate voices of reason in a sea of socialist insanity.

[DAN BONGINO: 'FLUSH YOUR MONEY DOWN THE TOILET' BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT GETS IT]

It’s a nice try, but I say not so fast.  While Manchin and Sinema should be applauded for pumping the brakes on the radical left’s ridiculously expensive country-busting spending plan, they both appear poised to be in favor of a yet to be determined dollar figure somewhere below $3.5 trillion. [OVER TEN YEARS]

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For Manchin, it’s reportedly around $1.5 trillion and for Sinema, it’s still unknown. But let me be clear:  for any politician looking to be awarded the "moderate" seal of approval, voting for another $1.5 trillion in completely unnecessary social welfare spending in the face of a $28 trillion national debt is anything but moderate.

The Democrats’ multi-trillion dollar socialist wish list is not emergency spending that must happen now -- far from it.  The high wire act being attempted by President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Schumer is truly shameful.

This trio of entrenched Washington politicians is trying to blur reality and rushing to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic one more time -- something Manchin and Sinema should reject entirely.  In fact, if Sens. Manchin and Sinema were really moderates, they would be talking about deficit reduction and entitlement reform, not more irresponsible spending.

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Consider our nation’s deteriorating financial picture in recent decades.  From our first President George Washington until our 42nd president (Bill Clinton) -- a span of 211 years - the United States accumulated $5 trillion of national debt.  During the administration of President George W. Bush, the national debt grew from $5 trillion to $10 trillion.

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Then, under President Barack Obama, the national debt jumped from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.  And under President Donald Trump, the national debt grew from $20 trillion to nearly $28 trillion -- much of it due to the emergency federal spending that was enacted to fend off a depression during the COVID-19 economic shutdown. [NO MENTION VOODOO CORP TAX CUT]

Alarms have been going off about our debt crisis for years, but far too little has been done to confront it.  And to make matters worse, the Medicare and Social Security programs are only years away from insolvency -- but you won’t find many in Congress willing to talk about that most inconvenient reality.

[SEN. BILL HAGERTY: BIDEN ADMIN ‘OVERREACH’ -- ON ENERGY, JOBS, PRIVATE DATA -- HAS AMERICANS ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’]

When considering this bleak fiscal outlook and our out of control spending habits, it’s only common sense to think that our leaders should be focused on fiscal responsibility, spending caps and cuts, deficit reduction, and entitlement reform.  Unfortunately, you’d be wrong -- dead wrong in fact.  Instead, Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer are all hell bent on doing the exact opposite: spend as much of your money as possible.

[AOC mocks Joe Manchin for wanting $1.5 trillion spending limit Video]

After 18 months and trillions upon trillions in COVID-19-related spending, these unhinged leftists want to continue spending and borrowing at the same unsustainable pace - not on emergency, mandatory spending -- but on infrastructure andSen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., socialist wish list.

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Some people think that spending on infrastructure is a good thing, but when you’re $28 trillion in debt, is it really the right time? And of course, out of touch Washington politicians on a drunken spending spree don’t want to stop at $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, but now want to ram through an additional -- and totally irresponsible -- massive welfare state expansion bill through Congress for good measure.

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We’re staring at a fiscal calamity and our left-wing leadership is choosing to make it a reality sooner rather than later.  It’s simply maddening what they’re going to leave behind for our children and grandchildren to deal with.

The Democratleadership teams on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are so slick in fact, they’ll look you in the eye and say all of this is paid for -- just trust us.  Of course that’s a lie.

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When liberal career politicians tell you that items with a still uncertain multi-trillion dollar price tag are fully paid for, should you believe them?  I don’t think so.

President Biden’s approval rating is plummeting because he’s overseeing all the crises his administration has instigated and the American people want our nation’s chief executive to fix problems, not create them.  And pushing radical socialist legislation that will tack on trillions and trillions to our national debt is only making our nation’s fiscal crisis worse.

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David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United, a Fox News contributor, the 2016 deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump for President, and the former chief investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during the Clinton administration. He is the co-author with Corey Lewandowski of “Trump: America First: The President Succeeds Against All Odds,”  along with "Let Trump Be Trump"  and “Trump’s Enemies.”

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at its first meeting of 2022, the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) laid out its plans for influencing this year’s midterm elections, abolishing abortion rights, defunding the left, limiting China’s influence, and countering a topic of great concern to Republicans: “wokeness.”

According to an agenda obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the CNP meeting took place the last weekend in February at the posh Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, California. The agenda reveals  changes in leadership and current priorities of the influential group, which is closelytied to Trump and the Republican Party.

Kevin Roberts, a CNP board member and president of the Heritage Foundation, kicked the event off with a speech on “how the Conservative Movement can go on the offense to promote America’s founding principles across the country.”

CNP is known for “connecting the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of Western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives,” as Columbia University Professor Anne Nelson describes the group in her definitive book :{Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}:.

Leadership Changes Elevate Voter Suppression Advocates 

The program for the February meeting offers the first glimpse of the secretive group’s high-level members and leaders since CMDpublished its September 2020 Membership Directory, provided by open source intelligence researcher Brent Allpress.

The group’s Executive Committee is headed by Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who has taken over from William Walton as CNP’s president. Judicial Watch’s “Election Integrity Project” has pushed for voter roll purges and promotes the myth that voter fraud is widespread in the U.S.

At the August 2020 CNP meeting, Fitton facilitated two panels on “election integrity,” CMDreported. “We need to stop those [vote-by-mail] ballots from going out, and I want the lawyers here to tell us what to do,” Fitton told meeting attendees, according to videos obtained by The Washington Post.

Another lifelong advocate of voter suppression now serves as CNP’s vice president: J. Kenneth Blackwell, a former secretary of state in Ohio and member of Trump’s failed voter fraud panel, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. He currently chairs the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonprofit spin-off of the Trump administration.

In May 2021, Blackwell facilitated an “Action Session” at CNP’s 40th anniversary meeting on how to combat the national voting rights effort, featuring U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential electoral college results, and GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who has promoted Trump’s Big Lie and advised him on his infamous call pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes for the former president to win the state.

At its February meeting, CNP hosted a screening of the film:{**Capitol Punishment**:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: with director Chris Burgard, which promotes the claim that, “Everything that we are being told [about the insurrection] is a lie and Americans are being persecuted to support that lie.” CNP has extensive ties to #StoptheSteal and the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, CMD reported.

Others joining the CNP executive committee this year include Jerry A. Johnson (treasurer), former president of the National Religious Broadcasters; William G. Boykin, retired Army lieutenant general and executive vice president of theFamily Research Council; Chad Connelly, president of Faith Wins; and Millie Hallow, managing director of executive operations at the National Rifle Association.

Blackwell is also listed as president of the board of directors for CNP Action, and Fitton is a new director of the affiliate.

The Gold Circle Members list is largely similar to the September 2020 directory, with many of the new additions representing shifts from lower membership tiers. Notable new members include Ashland University President Carlos Campo; Lynn Friess, widow of GOP megadonor Foster Friess;and Ryan Helfenbein, executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center and a vice president at Liberty University.

Politicizing Covid

“The pandemic led to unprecedented government mandates, the erosion of civil liberties, and an outright assault on freedom,” CNP’s agenda booklet argues. “Americans have seen and experienced what unchecked government power can do, and they have had enough.”

CNP has been instrumental in the relentless push from the right to ignore public health guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. It played a leading role in the anti-lockdown coalition known as “Save Our Country,” with members making up half of its leadership counciland organizing weekly conference calls to coordinate response tactics.

In May 2020, CMD also revealed that CNP Action, CNP’s 501(c)(4) affiliate, organized a call to discuss a plan for recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to campaign against Covid public health restrictions.

CNP’s February meeting featured a general session on the state of the pandemic in the U.S. led byDr. Jay Bhattacharya, a leading advocate for herd immunity who has advised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on his controversial anti-mask policies.

Focus on Elections 

Despite being a tax-exempt organization barred from engaging in electoral politics, CNP is focusing heavily on elections this year, according to the agenda for its February meeting.

Dave Bossie, president of Citizens United,led things off at the Gold Circle Dinner with a presentation on “the most pressing political battles in DC and their impact on the Conservative Movement.”

A general session titled “Virginia 2021: Lessons Learned” featured Chad Connelly, founder and president of Faith Wins; Mark Campbell, campaign manager for Glenn Youngkin, the Republican who won the 2021 governor’s race in Virginia; Victoria Cobb, president of The Family Foundation of Virginia; and Chris Wilson, CEO of WPA Intelligence sharing “their analyses of the Virginia race” and “what it means for 2022.”

After not winning a statewide race in more than a decade, in 2021 Republicans in Virginia won the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, while also recapturing the majority in the state House.

Former Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Becky Norton Dunlop, a past president of CNP,  joined the four “Lessons Learned” panelists for a CNP Action session “to chart the course to success nationwide in November.”

In his capacity as CNP Action chairman, Blackwell also hosted “Candidate Introductions” for attendees. While candidates were not listed on the program, CMD obtained a flier for Drew Montez Clark, a Republican candidate for Florida’s 25th district seat in the U.S. House, that was circulated at the meeting.

Clarkreportedly co-organized two buses carrying 100 Floridians to the Jan. 6 rally in DC that led to the violent insurrection at the Capitol. He also spoke at a far-right “America First” rally in April 2021 headlined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Supreme Court Takes Center Stage

“This term of the Supreme Court could be one of the most consequential ever, and CNP Members have been central to some of the landmark cases being decided,” the CNP’s February meeting program notes. Speakers at a general session on the subject included Alan Sears, founder of the Christian right litigation powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom; Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser; and First Liberty President Kelly Shackelford.

“CNP has been strategizing to dominate the Supreme Court for decades,” CNP expert Anne Nelson told the Associated Press in Oct 2020. “They have worked through the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the National Rifle Association, all run by members of the CNP.”

Dannenfelserwas among 14 other CNP members to attend the Sept. 26, 2020, Rose Garden ceremony at the White House where Amy Coney Barrett accepted the nomination for the Supreme Court, solidifying the far-right’s hold on the nation’s highest court.

The agenda notes that Dannenfelser “will provide an update on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that could result in completely gutting or overturning Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing women in America the constitutional right to an abortion.

Mississippi’s Speaker of the House Phillip Gunn (R-Miss.), the 2020 chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), touted the Dobbs v. Jacksoncase and its prospects for leading to a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade during a panel at the CNP meeting last May, CMD reported.

“We think that’s going to be a landmark case. All of us know that the United States Supreme Court composition has changed… in a way that is more pro-life,” Gunn told meeting attendees last spring. “They say that Amy Coney Barrett is one of the most active, pro-life people in America, so we believe that she brings a new dynamic to that court. We think our case, our law that we passed in 2018, will be transformative in the arena in abortion. We’re proud of that.”

Dannenfelser then led a CNP Action panel “on how the Conservative Movement can be best equipped for the impending Supreme Court decision on Dobbs” and to “strategize on messaging, state legislation, and more with attendees.”

One of the panelists,Mike Thompson, is a senior vice president with CRC Advisors. Leonard Leo,who played an integral role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges, founded CRC Advisors in 2020 with Greg Mueller to “funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement.” As of September 2020, Leo was aBoard of Governors member of CNP.

Pushing Back Against China, the Left, and a “Woke” Military 

Placing China “at the heart of the greatest challenges facing the United States in recent years”—from Covid to currency manipulation, climate policies, and “undue influence over American corporations”—Economic War Room host Kevin Freeman led a discussion titled “The 21st: An American or Chinese Century?”

Freeman was joined in the panel by Beau Brunson, Consumers’ Research Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs. Consumers’ Research has committed millions in dark money to fight environmental, social, and corporate governance concerns (ESG) and “woke” capitalism, where BlackRock has emerged as a top target of its campaign for its “hypocritical” investments in China.

CMD recently exposed Consumers’ Research as one of the largest sponsors of the State Financial Officers Foundation, a group of Republican treasurers, auditors, and staff from 16 states, which has  also prioritized fighting the ESG movement and “woke” capitalism.

Also on the panel were Pete Hoekstra, former ambassador to the Netherlands under Trump, and Steve Milloy, a FoxNews contributor and paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil, and other corporations.

The three also participated in a CNP Action panel on “Countering China,” where they collectively worked “on ways to combat the increasing and pervasive threat China poses to the United States and American life.”

Leading an CNP Action panel discussion on “Defunding the Left,”**Buckeye Institute**President and CEO Robert Altfacilitated a tutorial on how to cut off contributions to “left-wing causes” by targeting public employee unions, trial lawyers, and investment management firms. O.H. Skinner, executive director of Alliance for Consumers, and Bridgett Wagner, vice president of policy promotion at the Heritage Foundation, joined the discussion.

New CNP Executive Member Boykin led a panel discussion focused on the question: “Can a Woke Military Address Future Threats?” with Mike Berry, First Liberty’s general counsel, and Keith Kellogg, retired Army lieutenant general and co-chair of AFPI’s Center for American Security. The three talked about “extreme policies [that] have been implemented through the Department of Defense” and “how woke ideologies have influenced our armed services.”

Two other CNP meetings are scheduled for this year, May 18–20 in McLean, VA, and September 15–17 in Frisco, TX.

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LONGTIME TRUMP ADVISER DAVID BOSSIE LOOKS TO TAKE OVER THE RNC, SOURCES SAY

As Republicans gathered in Salt Lake City to prepare for the midterms and 2024, sources say Bossie is mounting a quiet bid to replace Ronna McDaniel, who won Trump’s ire after refusing to push his election-fraud claims.

BY TOM LOBIANCO

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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Longtime Trump adviser and Republican operative Dave Bossie is floating a run for chairman of the Republican National Committee, according to Republicans who spoke with Vanity Fair. But those same Republicans are split on whether the longtime Trump adviser and RNC committee member from Maryland is serious about trying to win the chairmanship next year or simply trying to raise his profile with former president Donald Trump.

The RNC met in Salt Lake City this week, ostensibly preparing for the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential election. But an effort by Bossie to expel representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from the party kicked up chatter behind the scenes that he’s gunning for Ronna McDaniel’s job leading the party.

“Bossie has been whipping votes,” said one person close to Bossie, who described the effort to kick out Cheney and Kinzinger as a way to drive a wedge between Trump and McDaniel.

Bossie has been overseeing the RNC’s presidential-debate committee, and worked with McDaniel this week behind the scenes to tamp down the Cheney-Kinzinger resolution, giving the impression that the two are unlikely to butt heads down the line.

Bossie denied he was seeking to unseat McDaniel. “Ronna and I have worked together as an effective team for several years now including at the just concluded Salt Lake City meeting,” he told Vanity Fair in a text message after this story was initially published. “Ronna and I worked on several resolutions together and continued our important work on the Presidential Debate Committee. I have no plans to run for chair of the RNC and folks trying to pit Ronna and I against each other will not succeed.”

In Salt Lake City, the compromise censure of Cheney and Kinzinger arguably gave cover to both sides in the battle—Bossie got to claim a victory over Never Trump Republicans, while McDaniel won with a voice vote on the resolution, preventing a situation where each individual RNC member would have to go on the record and pick a side between the establishment and Trump.

But as in all things political, little is what it seems on the surface.

Last November, after Wyoming Republicans voted to no longer recognize Cheney as a member of the party, McDaniel told reporters in Washington that “obviously she’s still a Republican.” In the same interview, McDaniel also acknowledged Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party, William “Frank” Eathorne, has been helping Bossie in the effort to kick out Cheney and Kinzinger.

The RNC will select its next chair at the start of 2023, for arguably its most important stretch since 2015, marked by jockeying over primaries, debates, fundraising, and ultimately trying to win back the White House—whether it’s with Trump at the top of the ticket or someone else.

This week’s meeting is one of just two before the party selects its chairman next year where the 168 members of the RNC who will select the next chairman are gathered together in one place—easy pickings for an ambitious pol lobbying for their support.

“This is a dry run [for next year],” said the person close to Bossie.

A spokeswoman for the RNC did not reply to an email and text message seeking comment.

McDaniel has done a remarkable job balancing the interests of the old party establishment and donors against Trump’s interests since Trump selected her to chair the party shortly after the 2016 election. (McDaniel famously talked Trump down from starting a third party in the wake of last year’s attempted coup and has been a constant presence in Trump’s orbit.)

McDaniel has not yet said whether she will seek a fourth consecutive term running the party, and has deflected questions about her plans, saying she is focused on the 2022 midterm races.

“His ultimate goal is being RNC chair,” said a second person familiar with Bossie’s maneuvering. “He’s going to have a hard time taking on Ronna. He would at least have to get Trump to weigh in.”

But other Republicans familiar with Bossie’s efforts doubt that he’s serious about challenging McDaniel for control of the party next year. Instead, they say he’s trying to elevate his profile in Trump’s orbit and party politics.

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“He took [the resolution to expel Cheney and Kinzinger] to Trump first before bringing it to the RNC—this is all about him auditioning to be a bigger fish,” said a third Republican familiar with Bossie’s efforts. The third Republican noted that Bossie got in hot water with Trump three years ago after his political group, the Presidential Coalition, was accused of using Trump’s likeness to fundraise for himself and his friends. (In a statement to Axios at the time, Bossie called the story “fake news brought to you by a collaboration of the biased liberal media and unabashed left-wing activists.”)

A Trump adviser said Thursday that Trump was “aware” of Bossie’s efforts at the RNC.

A veteran Republican operative close to the RNC pushed back on the idea that Bossie could win enough votes even if he does secure Trump’s support: “The reason Ronna got reelected was the members were really worried that some Trump grifter, like Bossie, was going to take over.”

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FOX NEWS: DAVID BOSSIE: WHAT TUESDAY’S ELECTION RESULTS TELL BIDEN, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS

by David Bossie |Jun 23, 2022

Joe Biden’s hot inflation summer has begun and the results of this week’s primary and run-off elections around the country provided some important insight into how Americans are feeling about his failing presidency and what issues they care about the most....

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The dangers of foreign influence over our government and foreign money infiltrating our elections have been a concern in the United States since the very beginning of our constitutional republic. In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton described corruption as one...

WASHINGTON TIMES: DAVID BOSSIE: The left’s grand plan to destroy our country

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by David Bossie | Jun 21, 2022

You can’t make fundamental change to a prosperous nation. That’s why Democrats are purposefully trying to destroy our country as we know it in their quest to change America into the world’s next failed socialist state. From the open borders disaster, the defund...

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by David Bossie | Jun 8, 2022

If the Jan. 6 House select committee’s infamous track record is any indication, it would have already leaked new smoking-gun evidence in their possession heading into Thursday’s prime time hearings. But there was no leak because there is no smoking gun. Instead,...

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FOX NEWS: DAVID BOSSIE: ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA, ELSEWHERE SHOW REPUBLICAN VOTERS LOVE ‘AMERICA FIRST’ CANDIDATES

by David Bossie | May 27, 2022

The closely watched primary election season continued Tuesday with contests in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Texas. And per usual, the biased and out of touch mainstream media is failing to focus on some very important news due to their unhealthy fixation on...

FOX NEWS: DAVID BOSSIE: Elections in Georgia, elsewhere show Republican voters love ‘America First’ candidates

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by David Bossie | May 18, 2022

Despite being victorious in an amazing 58 of the 59 primary elections in which he endorsed a candidate going into Tuesday night’s contests in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho, and Oregon, the biased mainstream media and political establishment were poised to...

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by David Bossie | May 18, 2022

What a bizarre spectacle it’s going to be the week of June 9 when the illegitimate Jan. 6 select committeefinally kicks off its ultra-partisan public hearings at the U.S. Capitol as left-wing civic unrest is occurring simultaneously across the street at the...

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FOX NEWS: DAVID BOSSIE: ON HUNTER BIDEN, WHITE HOUSE CAN RUN BUT IT CANNOT HIDE MUCH LONGER

by David Bossie | Apr 27, 2022

As the old saying goes, the chickens are finally coming home to roost. The revelation that a close business associate of Hunter Biden’s was granted access to the Obama-Biden White House on nearly 20 occasions is the just latest shoe to drop in a Pulitzer...

As the old saying goes, the chickens are finally coming home to roost. The revelation that a close business associate of Hunter Biden’s was granted access to the Obama-Biden White House on nearly 20 occasions is the just latest shoe to drop in a Pulitzer Prize-worthy story of power and corruption that’s becoming known simply as “Biden, Inc.”

This new disclosure is part of the shady operation that the mainstream media ignored for years to cover for Joe Biden — is now picking up steam at the worst possible time for the president.

It’s a textbook case of the Washington swamp at its worst and how the politically connected cash in on family members who are elected to high office year after year. And it’s high time for the Biden White House to finally start answering questions.

Richard Nixon answered questions about Watergate. Ronald Reagan answered questions about Iran-Contra. Bill and Hillary Clinton answered questions about Whitewater. Donald Trump answered more questions than any president ever about every topic imaginable. So, why does Joe Biden continue to get the kid gloves treatment?

The White House press corps must make life difficult for this White House on the issue of alleged Biden family corruption because it’s their job to do so, period.

The days ofarrogant Press Secretary Jen Psakibeing let off the hook by her pals in the liberal mediamust come to an end. This is a serious matter that must be dealt with in an up front and transparent manner.

Attorney General Merrick Garland should start by getting his department’s investigation of Hunter Biden out of the hands of President Biden and his political cronies in the West Wing.

It’s a nice talking point, but it doesn’t matter that the U.S. attorney in Delaware who’s conducting the investigation is a Trump appointee; what matters is that the Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to oversee an investigation into a member of the president’s family — or potentially the president himself. It’s a crystal clear conflict of interest and is the very reason that the special counsel statute exists in the first place.

Appointing an independent special counsel in this case is simply the right thing to do. Refusing to do so is part of the reason why a whopping 56 percent of the American people “don’t trust the government much or at all” to do what is right according to recent survey data.

Furthermore, House Republicans should be putting pressure on the Democrat-controlled Congress to start asking questions about Hunter Biden now — or it’s going to make the tsunami that’s coming their way in November that much worse.

Never before has a party in control of Congress been allowed to ignore a story of this magnitude. Hunter’s international business ties to China, Russia and Ukraine alone are enough for even a casual observer to wonder if President Biden is compromised.

Many believe that the Biden family’s financial connections to our adversaries are a threat to U.S. national securityand that it’s long past time for Congress to fulfil its constitutional oversight duty — regardless of who’s in the majority.

Surely the Pelosi-controlled House of Representatives can handle more than just the January 6 Committee’s nonstop harassment of former President Trump.

If only thebiased media had done its job on the Biden family corruption story from the get-go.

If only Big Tech hadn’t censored the story about Hunter’s laptop for so long. If only the Trump-hating Washington establishment hadn’t falsely labeled it Russia disinformation.

If this story had been investigated then, what’s been revealed this week and what’s in store in the weeks to come would have come out a long time ago; and it wouldn’t be putting Biden’s presidency in jeopardy. The cover-up is almost always worse than the crime — and much more politically costly.

In August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency because [GOLDWATER AN OTHER GOP STOOD UP FOR RULE OF LAW AND TOLD HIM THEY WD VOTE FOR.] he realized he was going to be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate.

Now fast-forward to 2022. Biden family corruption makes Watergate look like a parking citation. And let’s face reality; it’s only going to get worse when Republicans take back the majority in Congress and start exercising their subpoena and deposition authority.

Joe Biden should consider following in the footsteps of Tricky Dick — it might also save the Democratic Party in the process.

David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United,a Fox News contributor,the 2016 deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump for President, and the former chief investigator [WAS HE? FIRED?] for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during the Clinton administration. He is the co-author with Corey Lewandowski of “Trump: America First: The President Succeeds Against All Odds,” along with “Let Trump Be Trump” and “Trump’s Enemies.”

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Longtime right-wing Republican activist David Bossie reportedly pushed the recent Republican National Committee resolution that accused the House committee investigating Jan. 6 of persecuting “ordinary citizens engaged inlegitimate political discourse.”The resolution, which also censured Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the two Republican members of the committee, has drawn widespread criticism and stirred conflict within GOP circles.

Bossie, a longtime right-wing propagandist and collaborator with former Trump aide Steve Bannon, had reportedly been working with Wyoming GOP Chair William “Frank” Earthorne to get the RNC to kick Cheney and Kinzinger out of the party completely. The censure language in the resolution that ultimately passed was a compromise reached behind closed doors.

The RNC is also planning to fund a primary challenge against Cheney, with Bossie calling it a “one-two punch” against her.

Bossie was elected to the Republican National Committee representing Maryland in 2016, the same year he served as deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump. There was a bit of a falling out between the two in 2019 over a Bossie fundraising scheme, but in 2020, after refusing to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump turned to Bossie to help lead the campaign’s efforts to challenge the outcome of the election. Bossie is reportedly leading RNC efforts to assert greater control over any 2024 presidential debates.

Bossie, listed as president and board chair of the group Citizens United, has written several books and produced multiple films attacking Democratic candidates. It was Citizens United’s effort to run an anti-Hillary Clinton film during the 2008 campaign that led to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling that weakened campaign finance laws and ushered a flood of dark money into U.S. elections.

During the 2016 Republican convention, Bossie and Bannon helped launch what Bannon called a “Christian war film” seemingly designed to incite fear and anger among the GOP’s conservative Christian base.

Vanity Fair reported last week that sources told the magazine that Bossie is making a bid to take over the RNC from current chair Ronna McDaniel, though Bossie denied that ambition. According to Vanity Fair, a “veteran Republican operative close to the RNC” downplayed Bossie’s chances, saying, “The reason Ronna got reelected was the members were really worried that some Trump grifter, like Bossie, was going to take over.”

In 2018, Bossie was briefly suspended from Fox News after telling a Black fellow panelist, “You’re out of your cotton-picking mind.”

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Progressives expressed outrage Friday after the Republican National Committee formally declared the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election "legitimate political discourse."

"Mark this day for future reference."

"January 6th was not "legitimate political discourse"—it was a violent insurrection on our Capitol," Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) tweeted in response to the RNC declaration.

"I didn't know if I'd make it out alive," she added. "Some didn't. We cannot let the GOP whitewash what happened."

The New York Times reports the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted overwhelmingly Friday to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for their participation in the Democrat-led bipartisan commission investigating the January 6 attack.

The RNC censure resolution accuses Cheney and Kinzinger of "participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse," and of "utilizing their past professed affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes."

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)—a member of the special House committee investigating the January 6 attack—told the Times that "The Republican Party is so off the deep end now that they are describing an attempted coup and a deadly insurrection as political expression."

"It is a scandal that historians will be aghast at, to think that a major political party would be denouncing Liz Cheney for standing up for the Constitution and not saying anything about Donald Trump's involvement in the insurrection."

Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the progressive advocacy group Common Cause, said in a statement that "January 6 was an insurrection that left people dead and scores of seriously injured in its wake. It was not legitimate political discourse no matter what the GOP says."

"It was a violent attempt to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and ignore the will of the people," she continued. "It was a dangerous and irresponsible attempt to try to intimidate Congress with an angry racist mob assembled and then set loose by a man who had just lost the presidential election."

"With today's vote, the Republican Party has just endorsed violence as a legitimate form of political expression," Hobert Flynn added. "Their vote to legitimize violence is anti-democratic. There is no room for ambiguity when it comes to an attack on the peaceful transfer of power and our democratic system of government."

Cheney responded to the censure by posting a video showing supporters of Trump's "Big Lie"—the fallacious belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen—savagely assaulting Capitol police officers and violently storming the U.S. Congress in a bid to stop lawmakers from certifying President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

Daniel Ziblatt, a professor at Harvard University and author of How Democracies Die, tweeted: "I have spent a lot of my career studying what happens when conservatives fully go off the rails. This is one of those moments."

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an RNC committee Thursday evening unanimously passed a resolution to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The resolution will be voted on by the full RNC, all 168 Republican National Committee members, Friday.

That resolution – submitted by Trump "dirty trickster" and GOP "shady partisan hit man" David Bossie – makes false claims about President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats,

"The Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress have embarked on a systematic effort to replace liberty with socialism; eliminate border security in favor of lawless open borders; create record inflation designed to steal the American dream from our children and grandchildren;neuter our national defense and a peace through strength foreign policy; replace President Trump's 'Operation Warp Speed' with incompetence and illegal mandates;and destroy America's economy with the Green New Deal."

The resolution also promotes the lie that participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were merely "ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."

It calls for the RNC to "immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the House of Representatives, the Republican Party and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference."

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Team Trump Had a Second Pre-Insurrection War Room

An investigation of who was in this second Insurrection Eve war room has now begun.

Seth Abramson

Jun 6

Introduction

As this publication has exclusively and exhaustively detailed, on the eve of the January 6 insurrection Team Trump convened a 23-person war council at Trump International Hotel in D.C. to plot out—as attendees have since confessed—what would happen the following day. It is now clear that a second, contemporaneous pre-insurrection war council was held at a nearby Washington hotel and that it may well have been linked, through either phone or video conferencing, to the first.

This previously unreported news could significantly swell the size of Donald Trump’s pre-insurrection planning team, even as it remains possible (indeed, a possibility that has been extensively investigated here at Proof) that any remote conferencing that occurred the night before the January 6 insurrection also included the White House.

The Two War Rooms

The group that convened at Trump International on January 5 included, per eyewitness accounts previously compiled by Proof, the following members of Trump’s family, legal team, campaign staff, advisory corps, donor class, circle of friends, allies in Congress, and presidential administration:

Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Corey Lewandowski,David Bossie,Michael Flynn, Peter Navarro, Adam Piper, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Lindell, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Doyle Beck, Daniel Beck, Layne Bangerter, and two additional unnamed U.S. senators, one of whom prior Proof reportssuggest was Ted Cruz (R-TX). Domestic terrorist Ali Alexander“attended” by phone.

Other possible attendees—whose status is still being investigated in light of evidence they were present—include Alex Jones, Sidney Powell, Patrick Byrne, and Guiliani cybersecurity adviser Phil Waldron. As Proof has previously noted, and as will become vital to the account below, four individuals from the two lists above now claim (or have had it claimed by legal counsel) that they weren’t, in fact, part of any meeting involving Trump International Hotel on January 5, despite eyewitness accounts to the contrary. Those individuals are Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro, and David Bossie.

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/528810-lewandowski-bossie-added-to-pentagon-advisory-board-after-latest-purge

top Trump allies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie are among nine new members of a Pentagon advisory board installed after the administration fired the previous members.

The purge at the Defense Business Board, which provides Pentagon leaders with outside advice on business management issues, was first reported Friday by Politico.

It is the latest shake-up at the Department of Defense (DOD) following President Trump’s loss to President-elect Joe Biden in November’s election.

"I’m proud to welcome each of these new members to the Defense Business Board and I look forward to their contributions to help guide the Department’s business efforts in the coming years,” acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, whose installation kicked off the Pentagon shake-up, said in a statement Friday. “These individuals have a proven record of achievement within their respective fields and have demonstrated leadership that will serve our Department, and our nation well.”

Lewandowski served as the president's campaign manager for part of his 2016 White House bid and joined the 2020 campaign as a senior adviser.

Bossie was a deputy campaign manager in 2016 and in November was tapped to lead Trump’s legal efforts challenging the results of the 2020 election. He is also the president and chairman of conservative advocacy group Citizens United. He and Lewandowski have co-written books together.

The Biden administration can replace them when he takes office, but their appointment marks Trump's latest effort to inject politics into the Pentagon in the waning days of his presidency.

The other new members of the board are Henry Dreifus, Robert McMahon, Cory Mills, Bill Bruner, Christopher Shank, Joseph Schmidt, Keary Miller, Alan Weh and Earl Matthews.

They are replacing Chairman Michael Bayer, Vice Chair Atul Vashisitha, Arnold Punaro, John O'Connor, David Venlet, Paul Dolan, Scott Dorn, David Walker and David Van Slyke.

“I want to thank each of these members for volunteering their time and talents in service to the Department of Defense and in turn, our country,” Miller said in his statement.

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A Pentagon news release on the changes said the fired members "had been serving in expired positions," but Politico reported that at least three told it their terms were not close to expiring.

The Defense Business Board purge comes about a week after a similar shake-up was reported at the Defense Policy Board, another key DOD advisory group. The director of the Defeat ISIS Task Force was also ousted this week.

The Pentagon purge started shortly after the election with Trump’s firing of Mark Esper as Defense secretary. The next day saw the departure of three other top officials who were replaced with Trump loyalists.

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Rudy Giuliani may be President Donald Trump's personal attorney, but his presidential campaign is reportedly not pleased with his involvement in the post-election legal battle. For months, the president had been setting the stage to contest the results of the presidential election by claiming that the results would be rigged due to widespread voter fraud. But now, Giuliani threatens to dismantle it all.

It was announced on Friday that Trump placed Giuliani in charge of the election lawsuits — a new development his campaign team is not thrilled about. Some of Trump's advisors have even described Giuliani as a "counterproductive" presence in what is already being described as an uphill, and nearly impossible, battle.

A half-dozen other Trump advisers have described Mr. Giuliani's efforts as counterproductive and said that he was giving the president unwarranted optimism about what could happen. Those advisers have said that they are concerned Mr. Giuliani is damaging not only Mr. Trump's remaining legal options, but his legacy and his future opportunities in politics as he considers another campaign in 2024.

The latest development comes just days after Giuliani's prelude to disaster on last weekend. From the moment the Trump campaign learned of the location of Giuliani's press conference held on last Saturday, they knew it was a disaster in the making. In fact, the location, alone, signaled alarm bells for campaign advisors.

At the time, it was announced that Giuliani would be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, Penn. Although campaign advisors scrambled to axe the event, Giuliani forged ahead. Standing outside of the Four Seasons location, which adjacent to a crematorium and sex shop/adult bookstore, the former New York City mayor spewed countless conspiracy theory with little to no evidence to back his claims.

Ironically, Giuliani was holding the press conference as President-elect Joe Biden was being declared the winner of the election.

A report published by Politico has outlined the consequences that could arise as a result of Giuliani's actions.

Giuliani's promotion also threatens to complicate a legal apparatus that has been in the works since June. The campaign began assembling a team of lawyers in swing states and counties where recounts might take place. The effort has been overseen by Citizens United President David Bossie, who was tapped because of his conservative street cred and connections to pro-Trump activists around the country.

As of Saturday, November 14, Trump has had nearly a dozen post-election lawsuits dismissed by judges in state courts across the country.

How Hillary Clinton helped create what she later called the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’

By Karen Tumulty

September 3,2016

Hillary Clinton speaks to news organizations on Jan. 26, 1996, the day she testified before a grand jury investigating the Whitewater scandal. (James A. Parcell/The Washington Post)

The epic battles between the Clintons and their tormentors on the right have shaped American politics for nearly a quarter-century.

But there was a moment early on when the toxic course of that history might have been changed, had it not been for Hillary Clinton’s impulses toward secrecy.

It came one weekend near the end of Bill Clinton’s first year as president, and it pitted the first lady against her husband’s advisers.

“If a genie offered me the chance to turn back time and undo a single decision from my White House tenure, I’d head straight to the Oval Office dining room on Saturday morning, December 11, 1993,” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, then a top aide to the president, wrote in his memoir “All Too Human.”

There was an urgent meeting that day to discuss a request by The Washington Post for documents relating to the Whitewater Development Corp., a failed Arkansas real estate investment in which the Clintons had been involved.

Whitewater had been an issue in the 1992 presidential campaign. More recently, questions had arisen about whether the land deal and the Clintons might be linked to the collapse of a savings and loan.

Stephanopoulos and David Gergen, another senior adviser, were internal rivals at the time who agreed on almost nothing. But both argued for full disclosure of the records. After a few days of rough coverage, they confidently predicted, the story would go away as the press corps discovered there was nothing sinister to the land deal and turned its attention elsewhere.

The president would not budge — and both of them knew why.

“Hillary Clinton is a woman of many strengths and virtues, but like all of us, she also has some blind spots,” Gergen said in a recent interview. “She does not see the world in the same way that others do, when it comes to transparency and accountability.”

She was not in the room, but the aides felt her presence.

“You could usually tell when Clinton was making Hillary’s argument: Even if he was yelling, his voice had a flat quality, as if he were a high school debater speeding through a series of memorized facts,” Stephanopoulos wrote. “Gergen and I didn’t know what was in the Whitewater documents, but whatever it was, Hillary didn’t want it out — and she had a veto.”

The fallout from that decision to stonewall would be enormous. Pressure built for the appointment of a prosecutor, first Robert B. Fiske Jr., then Kenneth W. Starr, who had been solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush.

Starr’s far-ranging investigation ultimately uncovered Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, would have the dark distinction of becoming the only first lady ever called before a federal grand jury. In 1996, she testified for four hours, mostly to answer ­questions about subpoenaed ­Whitewater-related documents that had vanished and then suddenly reappeared in the White House living quarters.

Gergen, Stephanopoulos and other top Clinton aides from that era — some of whom ended up with huge legal bills of their own — contend that none of this might have happened had Hillary Clinton been more open in the first place.

“I believe that decision against disclosure was the decisive turning point. If they had turned over the Whitewater documents to The Washington Post in December 1993, their seven-year-old land deal would have soon disappeared as an issue and the story of the next seven years would have been entirely different,” Gergen wrote in “Eyewitness to Power,” his book about his time working for four presidents, from Nixon to Clinton.

Nannygate, Travelgate, Whitewater, Filegate: It's tough to remember all the scandals that plagued President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton through the '90s. For millennials, here's what you missed. For everyone else, here's a refresher. (Sarah Parnass,Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)]

As he has watched the controversies that have beset her current presidential campaign, particularly the one over her private emails, Gergen has been struck by parallels to that pivotal moment in 1993.

“She has built a protective shield around herself,” Gergen said. “Her first response is, when people come after me, I’m going to have my guard up and be suspicious of what their motives are.”

[The inside story of how the Clintons built a $2 billion global empire]

Clinton drew the opposite lesson from those early Whitewater experiences — one that also shapes how she operates today.

Her view was that she should have thrown up more resistance.

In a conference call on Jan. 11, 1994, exactly one month after the meeting in which Stephanopoulos and Gergen had been overruled, the president’s aides convinced the Clintons that they should request an independent investigation to quell the growing media furor.

“We will never know if Congress would eventually have forced an independent counsel on us. And we will never know whether releasing an inevitably incomplete set of personal documents to The Washington Post would have averted a special prosecutor,” she wrote in “Living History,” her memoir. “With the wisdom of hindsight, I wish I had fought harder.”

The real problem, Clinton argued, was that “we were being swept up in what legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin later described as the politicization of the criminal justice system and the criminalization of the political system.”

Documents from the Whitewater investigation are unloaded at the Ford House Office Building on Capitol Hill in 1998. (Susan Biddle/The Washington Post)

Industry of scandal

Since then, an entire industry has grown up around Clinton scandals, pseudoscandals and conspiracy theories.

Millions of dollars have been raised and spent, both by their adversaries and their defenders. Republican-led congressional investigations have been launched, and lawsuits filed by conservative watchdog groups. The two sides wage constant war on the Internet, talk radio and cable news channels.

A search of Amazon.com finds more than 40 anti-Hillary books, with titles such as “American Evita” and “Can She Be Stopped?” At the moment, three of the top-10 offerings on the New York Times’ hardcover nonfiction bestseller list are volumes bashing the Clintons.

So Hillary Clinton had it right when she made her famous declaration that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was out to get her and her husband. The opposition was and is passionate. It is well financed. It sees dark — sometimes preposterous — motives in nearly everything the Clintons do.

By the time Barack Obama took office, what she had called a conspiracy had grown into a permanent institution. On an ideological and political level, it fought Obama’s expansive view of government through legislation, lawsuits and grass-roots movements such as the tea party. In its darker corners, it spread sinister rumors about his patriotism, his religious beliefs and even his citizenship.

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Through it all, Hillary Clinton has remained a target for a particularly intense kind of vehemence.

“Over time, some on the far right have made her into a ­boogiewoman to instill fear and raise money,” said John Weaver, a GOP strategist. “Is she the devil incarnate? No. These critics can’t even explain why they hate her. It’s unhealthy for our politics.”

The Clintons’ aversion to transparency, as well as their tendency to skirt the rules and play close to the legal and ethical line, have made it easier for their enemies.

Their defensiveness seems to have deepened, which worries longtime friends and advisers.

“I think she’s much more of that bent than he is. He sees the sunnier side, rather than the darker side,” said one former top aide who has known both Clintons for decades, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk freely. “It’s grown worse over the years, and it’s now built up into, ‘They are out to get us.’ They’re not wrong, but did part of this come from their secretiveness and unwillingness to make a clean breast of things?”

[What Hillary Clinton’s emails tell us about her management style]

Hillary Clinton cannot shake continuing questions over her use of a private email account when she was secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s omnivorous appetite for contributions from donors who have government business.

Polls consistently show that strong majorities of voters do not consider her to be honest or trustworthy.

That is because the perceptions have had a long time to settle. There are many through-lines from the controversies of the 1990s to the ones dogging the Clintons today.

When the existence of her private email account became public last year, Hillary Clinton initially claimed that she had set it up for convenience. It later became clear that she did it in part because she wanted to have the power to keep her records outside the realm of public discovery — just as she had hoped to do with the Whitewater documents.

A State Department inspector general’s report noted that when the agency’s deputy chief of staff for operations suggested in 2010 that she set up a government account, the secretary responded, “Let’s get separate address or devicebut I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.” She would delete more than 30,000 emails from her personal server before turning over the remainder in response to a State Department demand.

Similarly, the current questions of whether donors to the Clinton Foundation received special State Department access are an echo of the campaign-finance scandals that erupted during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

The evidence thus far does not confirm any “pay to play” operation. It does indicate that some who wrote big foundation checks saw those gifts as a means of opening doors .

On Aug. 27, the conservative group Citizens United released emails obtained as part of a public records lawsuit. They showed that Clinton Foundation official Doug Band had pressed Clinton aide Huma Abedin to invite three donors, who had given millions to the foundation, to a 2011 State Department lunch with Hu ­Jintao, the Chinese president at the time.

Emails made public earlier showed, among other things, a sports executive using his foundation connections to press for a visa for a soccer player, and the crown prince of Bahrain going the same route to ask for a last-minute meeting with the secretary of state after “normal channels” failed.

[Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Department]

“You can’t tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins. Big donors get all the access, and that’s what this is about,” said David Bossie, who until this week was president of Citizens United. On Thursday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named Bossie his deputy campaign manager.

Bossie and other Clinton critics say that there is precedent in arrangements made during the 1990s.

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Six-figure contributors to the Democratic National Committee were offered sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom and invited to coffees in the White House Map Room, where regulators with oversight of their industries were present.

Sometimes, the fundraising touched the tripwire between the unseemly and the illegal. Bundler Johnny Chung made at least 49 visits to the Clinton White House, including one when he dropped off a $50,000 check at the first lady’s office. Two days after that, he was allowed to bring a group of Chinese business executives to watch the president’s radio address, where they had their pictures taken with Bill Clinton.

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Chung later told federal investigators that $35,000 of the $366,000 he donated to the Democratic Party in 1996 came from the Chinese government. He pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy.

On the other hand, many of the murky conspiracy theories and rumors that have swirled around the Clintons over the years have proven to be groundless — ridiculous, even.

And yet, they persist. Trump has trafficked in ­rumors that Clinton has serious health problems, although there is no real evidence, outside of doctored ­video and ­out-of-context photos that keep bouncing around the Internet.

Clinton has called that speculation a “paranoid fever dream” on Trump’s part.

Earlier this year, Trump dredged up old speculation that the Clintons might have had a hand in the 1993 death of their close friend Vincent Foster, the White House deputy counsel.

“He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide,” Trump said. “I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.”

There were five official investigations into Foster’s death. None found evidence that it was anything but suicide.

All told, seven separate ­independent-counsel investigations of Clinton administration officials were conducted during his years in office. They had cost taxpayers nearly $80 million by the spring of 1999.

Each time a new set of allegations arose, the prediction would come: This is the one that will do them in.

Scalp-hunting as sport

“There seems to be an undying belief that there’s a silver bullet here,” said David Brock, who runs a group of organizations allied with the Clintons, and who has been on both sides of the Clinton wars. When one does not pan out, he said, “another conspiracy theory is hatched.”

In the early 1990s, Brock was an investigative reporter for conservative publications. A story he wrote for the American Spectator claimed that Arkansas state troopers had arranged for trysts for Bill Clinton while he was governor there. One of the women mentioned, Paula Jones, subsequently filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton that became part of Starr’s investigation and ultimately triggered the perjury charge against him.

Controversies of varying degrees of seriousness tumbled by during Clinton’s eight years in office: Troopergate, Filegate, Travelgate, Chinagate, Pardongate. Even the more trivial ones left an aroma of malfeasance long after details had become a blur.

All of it drew upon a cynicism and suspicion of government officials that harked back to the first “gate” — Watergate. Hillary Clinton had come to Washington fresh out of law school to work for the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry of Richard M. Nixon.

Watergate produced new levers against corruption. After Nixon’s resignation, the Freedom of Information Act was strengthened. Congress also passed the Ethics in Government Act, which called for more financial disclosure from government officials and set up procedures for independent investigations of those who were accused of wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, news organizations had become more skeptical of government and less willing to take officials at their word.

When Bill and Hillary Clinton arrived in the White House, scalp-hunting had already become part of Washington’s political culture.

The Reagan administration’s Iran-contra affair was still a fresh memory. The Supreme Court nominations of Robert H. Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991 had turned into epic partisan battles. In 1989, former senator John Tower (R-Tex.) failed a confirmation vote as defense secretary because he had a reputation as a heavy drinker, marking the first time in 30 years that a president had been denied a Cabinet pick. Later that year, a tenacious backbench congressman named Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) forced the resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) over ethics charges.

One of the most dogged groups to pursue the Clintons has been Judicial Watch, a conservative organization founded in 1994. Its current efforts include 18 active lawsuits to force the disclosure of public records from Hillary Clinton’s State Department tenure.

“The permanent infrastructure around government corruption began with Watergate. Up until Judicial Watch, [watchdog groups] were all creatures of the left,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The right is increasingly using the same tools to great effect.”

Among Judicial Watch’s early funders was Richard Mellon Scaife, the reclusive heir to a banking fortune who died in 2014. He also bankrolled American Spectator and its “Arkansas project” to examine the Clintons’ past. AKA RWI?!

Why were the Clintons such an inviting target, and why have they remained one all these years?

As with everything else, the two sides have diametrically different views.

Trump has labeled Clinton “crooked Hillary” and says she may be “the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.”

The couple had a reputation for shading the truth that began even before they reached the White House. Bill Clinton was known as “Slick Willie” back in Arkansas, and the nickname seemed to fit as he glided through political eruptions over his actions.

He had smoked marijuana at Oxford University, he admitted, but insisted he had not inhaled. He had avoided the Vietnam draft around that time by signing up for ROTC, then reneged on the promise when a high lottery number ensured that he would not be selected. He steadfastly denied a 1992 tabloid report that he had had a 12-year affair with an Arkansas state government worker and cabaret singer named Gennifer Flowers— only to acknowledge in a deposition six years later that he had had a sexual relationship with her. And while he did not admit to harassingJones, [ELVES?]another Arkansas state employee, he ended up paying $850,000 to settle a lawsuit that originally asked for $700,000.

Hillary Clinton also became known for telling implausible stories when her back was against the wall. When it came out in 1994 that she had turned a $1,000 investment in cattle futures into nearly $100,000 in a matter of months in the 1970s, the White House initially claimed that the novice trader had based her decisions on information she found in the Wall Street Journal.[VS?]

The Clintons were also the first baby boomers to reach the White House, bringing with them the unresolved debates that had raged between the left and the right since the 1960s.

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“They represented a huge cultural shift, not only generationally, but Hillary as the first lady, with her own professional identity and political portfolio. All of that inspired a lot of fear among opponents of that change,” Brock said.

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Some argue that what really bothered the right was the fact that Bill Clinton was such a skillful politician. He had co-opted them on issues they regarded as their own — among them, crime, trade and welfare reform.

“I think the Republicans figured early on they couldn’t take him down politically. He was too adept,” so they found other ways, the Clinton aide said.

Whether that was the calculation or not, his opponents were constantly attacking. They went far beyond raising questions of government impropriety. Right-wing talk radio and the new medium of the Internet, which brought in fresh players, including the Drudge Report, spread fantastic theories tying the Clintons to everything from drug-running to murder.

“By 1996, it was in full force. Although we had the White House, Hillary was always very critical of the lack of effectiveness in our response,” the former presidential aide said.

At one point, the Clinton team assembled a 332-page internal report which alleged a “communication stream of conspiracy commerce.”

They came up with a byzantine theory of how it all worked: Unverified stories would originate at right-wing organizations, find their way onto the Internet, be picked up by conservative publications or London tabloids, make their way back into the U.S. media, then trigger congressional inquiries — at which point, they would become legitimate fodder for mainstream news organizations.

Opponents dismissed this view as paranoia. C. Boyden Gray, who had been George H.W. Bush’s White House counsel, called it “kind of goofy,” but he conceded that every president feels embattled at some point.

“I think that happens to many White Houses,” Gray told The Post. “But I don’t think any of us would have put that much pen to paper.”

Kenneth W. Starr, independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, talks to the media in 1997 outside his offices in Little Rock. (Jeff Mitchell/Reuters)]

Recruiting the enemy

Brock, whose article about the Arkansas state troopers had sparked the Paula Jones lawsuit, disavowed the anti-Clinton forces in a 1997 Esquire article headlined “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man.” He followed that up in 2002 with a book, “Blinded by the Right.”

“What interested Democrats about the book was not the personal confessions part of it, but the part that described the largely institutional efforts by the right,” he said.

Early the next year, Brock got a thank-you call from Bill Clinton, whom he had never met. The former president asked Brock what he planned to do next, and Brock described an idea for a liberal organization to push back against news coverage, much as Accuracy in Media had been doing from the right since 1969.

Clinton suggested that Brock create a business plan, which Brock did and sent to him. Bill Clinton shared it with Hillary, who by then was a New York senator.

She invited Brock to present it at meetings with her major donors in the fall of 2003, both in Washington and at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Their checkbooks opened.

His group, Media Matters for America, launched in 2004.Brock now runs four other organizations that he says were “built to counter the right-wing machine.”

They are Correct the Record, which describes itself as “a strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks;” American Bridge 21st Century, which focuses on opposition research; the Franklin Forum, which provides media training; andCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group he took over in 2014. He also sits on the board of the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action.

Brock added, “I feel like the playing field has gotten much more level from the time I started doing this until now.”

He also noted that new, explicitly liberal media players have emerged — among them, the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo.

All of which suggests that, should there be another Clinton presidency, the battles of the last one will continue and escalate. What Bill Clinton once described as the “politics of personal destruction” are now a permanent fixture of the U.S. political system, likely to endure long after anyone can remember what started it all.

bossie claims he could be jailled for violating McC-F but i see only fines:[vs d'souza straw donors?]

In December 2006 the FEC entered settlements with three 527 groups the Commission found to have violated federal law by failing to register as "political committees" and abide by contribution limits, source prohibitions and disclosure requirements during the 2004 election cycle. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was fined $299,500; the League of Conservation Voters was fined $180,000; MoveOn.org was fined $150,000. In February 2007, the 527 organization Progress for America Voter Fund [pro-bush]  was likewise fined $750,000 for its failure to abide by federal campaign finance laws during the 2004 election cycle.

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AMY GOODMAN: Brittany Kaiser, can you talk about the “Crooked Hillary” campaign and how it developed?

BRITTANY KAISER: Absolutely. So, this started as a super PAC that was built for Ted Cruz, Keep the Promise I, which was run by Kellyanne Conway and funded by the Mercers. That was then converted to becoming a super PAC for Donald Trump. They tried to register with the Federal Election Commission the name, Defeat Crooked Hillary, and the FEC, luckily, did not allow them to do that. So it was called Make America Number 1.

This super PAC was headed by David Bossie, someone that you might remember from Citizens United, who basically brought dark money into our politics and allowed endless amounts of money to be funneled into these types of vehicles so that we don’t know where all of the money is coming from for these types of manipulative communications. And he was in charge of this campaign.

Now, on that two-day-long debrief that I talked about — and if you want to know more, you can read about it in my book — they told us —

AMY GOODMAN: Wait, and explain where you were and who was in the room.

BRITTANY KAISER: So, I was in New York in our boardroom for Cambridge Analytica’s office on Fifth Avenue. And all of our offices from around the world had called in to videocast. And everybody from the super PAC and the Trump campaign took us through all of their tactics and strategies and implementation and what they had done.

Now, when we got to this Defeat Crooked Hillary super PAC, they explained to us what they had done, which was to run experiments on psychographic groups to figure out what was working and what wasn’t. Unfortunately, what they found out was the only very successful tactic was sending fear-based, scaremongering messaging to people that were identified as being neurotic. And it was so successful in their first experiments that they spent the rest of the money from the super PAC over the rest of the campaign only on negative messaging and fearmongering.

AMY GOODMAN: And crooked, the O-O in “crooked” was handcuffs.

BRITTANY KAISER: Yes. That was designed by Cambridge Analytica’s team.

AMY GOODMAN: Karim?

KARIM AMER: And one thing that I think it’s important to remember here, because there’s been a lot of debate among some people about: Did this actually work? To what degree did it work? How do we know whether it worked or not? What Brittany is describing is a debrief meeting where Cambridge, as a company, is saying, “This is what we learned from our political experience. This is what actually worked.” OK? And they’re sharing it because they’re saying, “Now this is how we want to codify this and commoditize this to go into commercial business.” Right?

So this is the company admitting to their own know-how. There is no debate about whether it works or not. This is not them advertising it to the world. This is them saying, “This is what we’ve learned. Based off that, this is how we’re going to run our business. This is how we’re going to invest in the expansion of this to sell this outside of politics.” The game was, take the political experience, parlay it into the commercial sector. That was the strategy. So, there is no debate whether it worked or not. It was highly effective.

And the thing that’s terrifying is that while Cambridge has been disbanded, the same actors are out there. And there’s nothing has been — nothing has changed to allow us to start putting in place legislation to say there is something called information crimes. In this era of information warfare, in this era of information economies, what is an information crime? What does it look like? Who determines it? And yet, without that, we are still living in this unfiltered, unregulated space, where places like Facebook are continuing to choose profit over the protection of the republic. And I think that’s what’s so outrageous.

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Bossie: The media need to investigate Joe Biden and his Ukraine dealings

David N. Bossie By David N. Bossie | Fox News

Are media going easy on Biden?

For the past 12 days, the political media has been focused on “handsy” and “creepy” former Vice President Joe Biden and his penchant for making unwanted contact with women seemingly wherever he is. While these allegations deserve their fair share of attention, the mainstream media may be missing -- or more likely ignoring -- the real Biden story that’s staring them in the face.

When I served as the chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during the Clinton Administration, I regularly worked with journalists on investigations they were covering for weeks and even months. But 20 years later, those types of stories are few and far between.

BIDEN FACES SCRUTINY FOR DEMANDING OUTSTER OF UKRAINE OFFICIAL PROBING FIRM THAT EMPLOYED HIS SON

That being said, the media must do a deep-dive into Joe Biden and his family’s relationship with Ukraine, like the recent reports byaward-winning journalist John Solomon in his column at The Hill.

The biased media’s refusal to cover the Biden-Ukraine story to date is shameful. President Trump never receives such favorable treatment. In fact, the vast majority of liberal journalists out there today hate President Trump and cover him and his administration with a presumption of guilt.

When it comes to the Biden’s and Ukraine, there’s an awful lot of smoke. Among other things, Solomon is reporting that in 2016 during his tenure as Barack Obama’s Vice President, Biden threatened to pull $1 billion dollars in loans to Ukraine if its President Petro Poroshenko didn’t fire the country’s prosecutor general.

The catch? The prosecutor was allegedly knee-deep in a corruption probe of Burisma Holdings, a firm that featured Biden’s son Hunter as a board member.

Biden got his way and the blowhard former vice president even publicly bragged about the firing.A top official from the Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office confirmed to Solomon that they are currently investigating these troubling allegations.

As it turns out, Hunter Biden’s firm in America (Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC) was allegedly receiving six figures a month from Burisma and according to Solomon, the fired prosecutor told him that he was planning to question Hunter Biden and other Burisma board members before he was relieved of duty.

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Solomon links to court records indicating that over an 18-month period in 2014- 2015 “more than $3 million was paid out of Burisma accounts to an account linked to Biden’s … Rosemont Seneca firm.” This was happening at the same time that Joe Biden was running point for the Obama Administration on matters involving Ukraine.

Using high office to enrich oneself or family members is textbook corruption. It’s an example of crony capitalism at its worst; and it appears Joe Biden was alledgedly involved in a big dose of it in Ukraine.

Citizens United has been working to uncover corruption in our government using Freedom of Information Act litigation against the State Department for years. Last month we filed suit in federal court to try and shed light on the overseas business activities of Hunter Biden and some of his associates after one year of State Department recalcitrance.

Some of the serious allegations involving the Biden’s and Ukraine were first uncovered by Peter Schweizer in his book “Secret Empires.” Once you learn about Hunter Biden’s business associations in Ukraine, it’s quite fitting that Joe Biden made his last foreign trip as Vice President there in January 2017.

According to Schweizer, “Four days before Biden arrived, Burisma made a dramatic announcement: the Ukrainian criminal investigations into the company and its founder had been ended by Ukrainian government prosecutors.”

If Biden were a Republican like President Trump, the mainstream mediawould be digging into these allegations in hopes of destroying him politically. But Biden is a Democratic ally and presidential frontrunner, so the liberal media has taken a pass on Ol’ Joe’s alleged Ukrainian mess so far.

During his visit to Ukraine in January of 2017, Biden made remarks about corruption in Ukraine that haven’t aged very well, knowing what we now know. Biden told Ukrainians to " ... keep demonstrating your commitment to the rule of law; keep fighting corruption; insist on transparency; investigate and prosecute government officials who siphon off public funds for their own enrichment.”

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It’s time for former Vice President Biden to answer questions about the real story. There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Ukraine.

David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United, a Fox News contributor, the 2016 deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump for President, and the former chief investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during the Clinton administration. He is the co-author of "Let Trump Be Trump"  and “Trump’s Enemies.”

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former Trump campaign deputy manager David Bossie, who Axios recently exposed as milking donors by flaunting President Trump’s name, is trying to repair and revive his controversial fundraising operation. 

The bottom line: Bossie suspended fundraising after Axios revealed that very little of the money he was raising was going to political campaigns. Trump was livid, forcing the Bossie retreat. Now, Bossie tells us he is making several changes — presumably to get back into Trump’s good graces and back into the fundraising business.

The impact: Bossie directed his political group, the Presidential Coalition, to cease all fundraising on May 7, 2 days after Axios published the findings of its investigation, done in collaboration with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC).

The fallout: Bossie told Axios that the group is "currently redesigning our fundraising programs, because of my longstanding relationship with the president and because of my desire to only help the president and the administration."

By the numbers: The Presidential Coalition's average daily contributions plunged from over $20,000 per day in early May to under $2,000 per day by the end of June, according to a new Axios/CLC analysis of the organization's latest IRS filing from the first half of 2019.

The state of play: Despite the backlash it faced, the Presidential Coalition is still spending just a small percentage of its money on direct political activity, though the percentage is higher than that of 2017 and 2018:

Worth noting: Bossie, a Fox News contributor, was totally absent on the network for nearly 3 months after our story ran. However, he did appear on the network again on July 31 to defend Trump after his tweets attacking Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings. A Fox News spokesperson told Axios that Bossie is still a contributor.

The Trump campaign told Axios that it stands by its May statement.

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 deputy manager of the Trump 2016 campaign called for the White House to release calls between the former President Barack Obama and other world leaders.

"Just an idea," tweeted David Bossie, president of the conservative activist group Citizens United and a trusted friend of President Donald Trump.

"@realDonaldTrump should consider releasing President Obama's phone conversations with world leaders. Say the one with Iran before the pallets of cash boarded the plane."

The U.S. flew $400 million to Iran in 2015 under the Obama-negotiated nuclear deal as part of a settlement relating to a pre-revolution arms deal that was never completed.

Trump is facing impeachment in part over his conduct on a July 25 call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The White House has released an edited summary of that call but has withheld a full transcript of the conversation.

In the summary, Trump is seen asking Zelenskiy for a "favor" and two open two investigations, one into the Democratic Party and another into former Vice President Joe Biden, one of its leading candidates for the 2020 nomination.

House Democrats, who have opened an impeachment inquiry, accused Trump of seeking the help of a foreign government to interfere to his benefit in the next election.

Trump denies any wrongdoing. But the two investigations he wanted are based on allegations that are either conspiracy theory or spurious.

One was into the discredited conspiracy theory that the DNC conspired with the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to frame Russia for election meddling, and that the evidence is held on a server in Ukraine.

The other was into dubious accusations of corruption leveled at Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma.

According to The New York Times, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's Ukraine expert, told the House impeachment inquiry that multiple important words and phrases were not included in the summary of the Trump-Zelenskiy call. Vindman had sat in on the call at the time.

Bossie is a longtime friend of Trump's and was considered to be a close confidant.

But the president distanced himself from Bossie back in May amid accusations that he scammed elderly and middle-class supporters of the president, Politico reported.

According to Axios, only a small portion of the millions raised by Bossie's group the Presidential Coalition, largely from small-dollar donors, was used to back the campaigns of Trump-supporting conservative candidates as it had pledged to do.

The former Trump campaign aide denied misleading donors. Some of the money was reportedly used to pay external consultants with which Bossie was connected and to buy books he wrote.

By September, The Daily Beast reported that Trump and Bossie had made up.

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Citizens United

Type: nonprofit

The organization behind the pivotal campaign finance U.S. Supreme Court case, Citizens United v. FEC, Citizens United’s super PAC spent $182,000 on pro-Trump messages in 2016.

Donald Trump, left, reacts to the crowd as he shakes hands with co-host David Bossie at the Freedom Summit, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Greenville, S.C. (AP/Rainier Ehrhardt)

People affiliated with the group have had a hand in other organizations backing Trump: Its president, Bossie, was Trump’s 2016 deputy campaign manager, while founder Brown is co-chairman of the super PAC America Fighting Back. Citizens United hasn’t reported any pro-Trump expenditures since he was elected.

“I am an outspoken supporter of this president and will help him in whatever way is most beneficial to his re-election,” Bossie told the Center for Public Integrity.

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David Bossie, Fox News contributor. A right-wing operative who has a history of employing dirty tricks and smears, Bossie was Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016. Fox News hired him as an on-air contributor in February 2017, even though he is reportedly bound by a non-disparagement agreement that prohibits him from publicly criticizing Trump. Indeed, Bossie has used his Fox platform to offer boilerplate defenses of Trump. In December 2018, as Fox personalities recommended him to replace White House chief of staff John Kelly, Bossie made an on-air pitch for the post on Fox & Friends. 

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actually with cory l 2 bks to defend trump from deep state

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lewandowski-and-bossie-target-trumps-deep-state-enemies/

Former Trump advisers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie are releasing a book on Tuesday that promotes far-right conspiracy theories about “embedded enemies of President Trump” in the “deep state.” The book names specific Trump appointees they describe as part of a “resistance” within the government. The Washington Post got an early look at the book—“Trump’s Enemies”—and began reporting on it over the weekend. Bossie and Lewandowski previously co-authored “Let Trump be Trump,” a memoir of their time on the campaign.

According to the Post’s Philip Rucker, the new book “paints a dark and at times conspiratorial portrait of Trump’s Washington.” Rucker says the book “reads in part like Trump’s Twitter grievances in book form.”It portrays FBI and Justice Department officials as wanting to “nullify the election and bring down the president.”

Lewandowski and Bossie write that these officials “attack the administration with a thousand cuts. They do this in complete disregard to the millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump. They do it only for their own ends. There are far too many people in the deep reaches of the federal government who harbor as deep a hatred of Trump as does anyone from the Clinton/Obama cabal. The thing is, they get away with it when no one is looking.”

Bossie and Lewandowski’s book, and its demonization of law enforcement and intelligence officials, fits into an aggressive strategy by Trump and his supporters to delegitimize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign—and justify whatever kind of firings or other forms of obstruction Trump and his supporters marshal in response to Mueller’s probe or investigations likely to begin when Democrats assume control of the House of Representatives in January.

Bossie and Lewandowski appeared on “Fox News Sunday” yesterday to promote the book. Bossie insisted, “There’s a vast left-wing conspiracy going on that has been going on since the president won this election.” Lewandowski said that their book outlines “how the intelligence community went after the president” because they “disagreed with his political philosophy.” Lewandowski promoted the book earlier this month on Breitbart News Daily, where he complimented Breitbart for reminding people that “the deep state is very real.”

“Trump’s Enemies” seems designed to give credence to far-right conspiracy theories about the “deep state” trying to overturn Trump’s election and carry out a slow-moving “coup d’etat.” Regarding the Russia investigation, the book says, “The upper echelons of the intelligence community and federal law enforcement have waged a full on war against the president.”

Right-wing Trump supporters like Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton have been banging this drum for a long time. Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, author of “Killing the Deep State: The Right to Save President Trump,” has promoted the need to “destroy this dangerous shadow government for good.”

Religious Right leaders have been key to this strategy, promoting conspiracy theories about the “deep state” setting out to undermine the current administration—with many Religious Right figures describing the deep state as a satanic and demonic movement engaged in spiritual warfare against the God-anointed Trump. This summer, for example, Gary Bauer called for the firing of Rod Rosenstein and breaking deep state resistance. Rick Joyner said that “To try to overthrow a duly elected president is treason.” Today, Jerry Falwell, Jr. tweeted a link to a recent Emma Greene article in the Atlantic quoting Falwell describing Jeff Sessions as “part of the deep state” and noting that Falwell had once said that Sessions, Hillary Clinton, Rosenstein, and former FBI Director James Comey should all “rot in the same jail.”

Earlier this year, a group of pro-Trump “apostles” and “prophets” gathered 1,300 supporters at Trump International Hotel in D.C. where they prayed for God to send his angel armies to destroy Trump’s deep state enemies in the FBI and Justice Department. In September, Intercessors for America released an “Intercessory Intel Report” on the deep state that urged people:

Pray that any plan to undermine, harm, derail and subvert elected officials would be uncovered. Pray that any conspiracy plans would be revealed and any illegal acts prosecuted. Ask God to clean house in our government!

As RWW’s Jared Holt noted in April, Fox News personalities are also playing their part:

Last December,Hannity told former White House strategist and Breitbart executive Steve Bannon that he feared that he “may end up in jail” for defending Trump against a deep-state effort to remove Trump from office.“By the way, people like us may end up in jail,” he told Bannon. “Let me tell you. They will stop at nothing. This is what I’m trying to get across to people. This is serious. This is the rule of law in this country now.”

Since then, conspiracy theorists like Hannity have ramped up the rhetoric they’ve used to discuss what they believed to be direct opposition from the deep state. Conservatives across right-wing media have been repeatedly warning voters that government agencies, technology companies, and satanic forces have been working in tandem to undo people who support Trump.

Bossie is president of Citizens United, the group behind the legal case that led to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in which the court’s conservatives dismantled campaign finance regulations and opened the floodgates to secret unlimited spending to influence elections. The case grew out of an anti-Hillary Clinton film that Citizens United wanted to run before the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Bossie is a practiced propagandist, having produced more than two dozen “documentaries” since 2004, many featuring right-wing figures like Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and Michelle Malkin. Bossie and Steve Bannon have teamed up to make at least six films, including 2012’s The Hope and the Change”—which was meant to prevent Barack Obama’s re-election—and 2016’s “Torchbearer,” which was screened during the Republican National Convention in 2016.

Bossie introduced Trump to Bannon in 2010. And when Bannon was ousted from the White House in the summer of 2017,Bossie went on Fox News to defend Bannon’s role in the Trump campaign and White House, and to declare that Bannon would have more weapons at his disposal in promoting the Trump agenda working outside the White House with Bossie and Lewandowski. That fall, Bossiedefended Bannon declaring war on establishment Republicans when others like Newt Gingrich said it was a stupid political strategy. In October 2017, Bossiepraised two right-wing candidates who will be sworn in to the U.S. Senate in January, Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn and Missouri’s Josh Hawley.

In December, Lewandowski and Bossie will be keynoting the “American Priority Conference,” which is “showcasing the political, cultural, and intellectual leaders of the America First movement.”

Tags: Corey Lewandowski David Bossie Steve Bannon Deep State Russia Investigation Trump Administration Breitbart Citizens United

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appearing on Fox News Sunday, the former deputy campaign manager of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run admitted that conservatives engaged in a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to undermine the Clintons just as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton charged.

Speaking with host Chris Wallace, David Bossie was describing Trump’s enemies when he made the admission.

“There is a vast left-wing conspiracy that has been going on since the president [Trump] won this election,” Bossie insisted. “All throughout the transition and through his first two years.”

“A vast left-wing conspiracy, very similar to what Hillary Clinton called the vast right-wing conspiracy,” he added as host Wallace interrupted him by saying, “Which incidentally didn’t turn out to be true.”

“No, it was true,” Bossie corrected the Fox News host. “Chris, there was an effort by the conservative movement to undermine President Clinton.”

David Bossie, it should be noted, was behind the Citizens United case, which was based on a movie attacking Hillary Clinton.

You can watch the video below via Twitter:

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www.mediatransparency.org

May 5, 2008

Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Back in the Swift Boat captain's chairs

Two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning are mainstreaming attacks on Clinton and Obama

Floyd Brown and David Bossie have spent a good part of their political careers making life miserable for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Unlike Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire financier who was unremitting in his efforts to take the Clintons down during the latter part of the twentieth century and whose newspaper endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton prior to the Pennsylvania primary, neither Brown nor Bossie have had a pro-Hillary conversion.

These days, however, Brown's new organization, The National Campaign Fund -- which launched a new website "ExposeObama.com" -- and Bossie's Citizens United have added Sen. Barack Obama to the mix.

Brown recently told Time magazine that "he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute."

Bossie told Newsweek that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."

Best known for his infamous Willie Horton television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis' presidential aspirations in 1988, Brown's National Campaign Fund has prepared a new TV attack ad called "Victims," which lambastes Obama for being too easy on gang murderers.

"The campaign by Hillary Clinton has not been able to raise Obama's negatives," Brown told Time. "It is absolutely critical that Obama's negatives go up with Republicans." Time reported that copies of the ad were "e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message."

While declining to comment on how much money he was hoping to raise, Brown pointed out that "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded. This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."

"The ad draws a parallel between Obama's weakness on gang violence and the war on terror," said Brown. According to the conservative news site, NewsMax.com, the ad "tells of a woman leaving church choir practice who was killed by gang gunfire while shielding her 6-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old boy beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car, and a 14-year-old boy shot five times in the back for refusing to flash a gang hand sign."

"That same year, Barack Obama -- then an Illinois state senator -- voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders, the ad points out," NewsMax reported. The ad ends: "When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"

According to Time, "Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perpetrator of a crime belonged to a gang. The links between Obama's vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident's are indirect and tenuous, as is the further connection the ad draws between the issue of Obama's position on the death penalty and the issue of international terrorism."

The ExposeObama team consists of Brown, who is also president of Excellentia Inc., which according to his bio, is "a consulting company specializing in non-profit organizational strategy, development and the marketing of ideas"; executive director Bruce E. Hawkins, "a highly skilled political strategist" who has worked for such conservative as Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Mike Huckabee; treasurer and general counsel James V. Lacy, the co-founder and managing partner of Wewer & Lacy, LLP and the cofounder in 1978, along with the late anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

On another front, a group called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, headed by California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, teamed with Brown to attack both Obama and Hillary Clinton for wanting to raise taxes on the American people. According to DeVore, both senators "want to raise taxes. Americans should have this information and be aware of the other extremely liberal positions Obama and Clinton hold."

"The ad draws a parallel between Obama and Clinton's records on taxes," said Brown. "The bottom line is that they can't deal with our economic problems by raising taxes. International competition cannot be addressed by raising taxes and raising the costs of business in America."

In the early 1990's Brown penned "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton," and he took credit for creating a 1-900 line for callers to listen to edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers who, during Bill Clinton's run for the presidency in 1992, claimed that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.

Last summer, when it looked as if Hillary Clinton was a sure-fire cinch to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Brown announced that he was working on a movie that, according to the website of Citizens United, would "expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future."

Now, with Brown having moved on, "Hillary: The Movie" (website) is about to "explode onto the scene!" claims Citizens United's website. Produced by CU Chairman of the Board and President, David Bossie, the author of the recently released book, "Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction," the movie contains more than 40 interviews "with experts, opinion makers, and many of the people who personally locked horns with the Clintons."

The film has "a cast to end all casts," and includes Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Jeff Gerth, Buzz Patterson, Michael Barone, Billy Dale, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Tony Blankley, Dick Armey, Bay Buchanan, Joe Connor, Mark Levin, Frank Gaffney, Peter Paul, Gary Aldrich, Dan Burton, John Mica, Michael Medved, Kathleen Willey, Kate O'Beirne, and Larry Kudlow.

Two Trailers for the film and three clever -- one 30 second and two 10 second -- advertisements for the film are featured at CU's website. The ads have been the cause of legal action: In late March, CNN reported that the Supreme Court had rejected CU's fight "to air commercials promoting" the movie without having to "indicate by name its sponsorship and disclose its political donors."

According to CNN, The case, rejected on jurisdictional grounds by the Supreme Court, had been appealed after a federal District Court refused to issue a preliminary injunction clearing the way for the promotions to run.

"At issue," CNN reported, "was whether broadcast ads promoting the 90-minute documentary ... are subject to strict campaign finance laws on political advocacy, or would be considered a constitutionally protected form of commercial speech." The three-judge District Court panel "rejected the group's arguments that the documentary is more akin to news or information programs like PBS' 'Nova' or CBS' '60 Minutes.'"

"'The Movie' is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary world, and that viewers should vote against her," wrote the judges in their ruling.

Both trailers are fast paced goulashes of Hillary sound-bites, flashing headlines and talking heads. The first one begins with a campaigning former North Carolina Senator John Edwards cautioning against "nostalgia," and climaxes with a long quote from former Clinton aide and Fox News Channel commentator **Dick**Morris: "We must never underestimate thiswoman. We must never underestimate her chances of winning. And we must never forget thefundamental danger that this woman poses to every value that we hold dear. You see," says Morris," I know her."

Although in reality, the film is "explod[ing] onto the scene" in only a handful of selected venues, the American Spectator's Quin Hillyer called it (and the companion book), "The best compendium of Hillary mendacity (and at-least-near-criminality) available right now." Hillyer acknowledges that he "did a final copy-edit for -- but did not write -- the book." Hillyer assures readers that the film does not merely re-hash Hillary's greatest hits, but includes "an examination of more recent scandals that never received the attention they deserved."

David Bossie is also the president and manager of an entity called The Presidential Coalition LLC, described by SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy as "a Republican front group that registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a Section 527 political action committee on June 30, 2005 ... [and] is affiliated with Citizens United. The group's IRS filing stated that the PAC was "Organized to directly or indirectly accept contributions and/or make expenditures to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of individuals to federal, state or local public office, or office in a political organization."

Bossie "was fired in 1998 from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight -- which was investigating alleged Clinton White House campaign finance abuses -- for his role in releasing selectively edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations," Media Matters for America has reported. "(Hubbell went to prison for defrauding his Little Rock, AR, law firm.)"

He is also the author of a spate of books attacking Democrats including "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore (2000), "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (2004), and "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" (2004).

Ramping up the rage and ranting up the rhetoric about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers

According to Newsweek, David Bossie has placed Obama in his sights. The magazine reported that Bossie maintained that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."

Shortly after Obama's victory in the Wisconsin primary, longtime conservative columnist Cliff Kincaid, accused the Illinois Senator of having "controversial socialist connections." Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right wing media watchdog group, and a contributing editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, charged Obama with being "an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler."

Questions about Obama's relationship with Ayerswere subsequently raised by conservative radio and Fox News Channel talk show host Sean Hannity. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about Ayers during the Obama-Clinton debate prior to the Pennsylvania primary.

Recent columns by Charles Krauthammer and Ann Coulter also raised the specter of Ayers.

According to Krauthammer, Ayers, along with Tony Rezko, "the indicted fixer," and Jeremiah Wright, "the racist reverend," make up Obama's "Three Amigos":

Obama makes it sound as if the relationship consists of having run into each other at the DMV. In fact, Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. Obama's own campaign says that they maintain 'friendly' relations.

Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, 'I feel we didn't do enough.'

Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is.

Newsweek reported that "Obama, who lives near Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park, attended an event at Ayers's house when Obama ran for the state Senate in 1995 -- and served on the board of a nonprofit with him for several years. Obama is aware of the acts Ayers committed when he was 8 years old and has called them 'detestable,'" says spokesman Ben LaBolt, adding that Obama occasionally bumps into Ayers in his neighborhood 'but has not seen him for months.' At a recent dinner party, according to one guest who asked not to be identified discussing a private gathering, Ayers 'ridiculed' the notion that Obama shared his left-wing views: 'He thought the idea that there was a political connection between them was absurd.'"

In early March, John Ponder of the Pensito Review wrote that Obama biographer, John K. Wilson, author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest," who said that Ayers was "not affiliated with the Obama campaign," described the Ayers relationship: "In 1995, State Sen. Alice Palmer held an event for supporters at the home of Ayers, where she announced her plans to run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Obama also served on the board of directors for a progressive foundation, the Woods Fund, from 1999-2001, when Ayers was also on the board. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama's state senate campaign fund. And Obama and Ayers appeared together on a 1997 panel at the University of Chicago dealing with juvenile justice (Obama also praised Ayers' approach on the subject in an op-ed he wrote that year), and on a 2002 panel on public intellectuals at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Just as Obama's explanations about his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- and Wright's increased public presence -- has not put that saga to rest, there is no doubt that right wing columnists, talk show hosts, partisan advertising and public relations specialists, pundits and two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning, Floyd Brown and David Bossie, will squeeze every last drop out of the Ayers controversy.

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David Bossie

The 29-year-old currently works for Senator Lauch Faircloth. Previously, he served as the national youth director in Senator Robert Dole's 1988 presidential campaign. In 1992, he became the executive director of Floyd Brown's Presidential Victory Committee which produced an ad and a 1-800 number with recordings of Gennifer Flowers' alleged conversations with Bill Clinton. Floyd Brown also worked on Dole's 1988 campaign as the Midwest political director but is most famous for creating the Willie Horton commercial that helped sink the Dukakis campaign. In May 1994, Bossie claimed to be working sixteen hours a day on Whitewater.

Additional Information on David Bossie

Bossie held August 1994 impeachment press conference with Howard Phillips. On August 10, 1994 David Bossie -- who was identified as "Director of Government Relations and Communications for Citizens United" along with Howard Phillips chairman of the Conservative Caucus held a press conference addressing the "Latest Whitewater Developments, Impeachment Possibility."

Citizens United press release, 8/10/94

At the press conference,Bossie said he would present Jack Brooks, the House Judiciary Committee chairman with petitions with 10,000 signatures calling for impeachment hearings. Phillips said he would present Brooks with 26,000 petitions calling for Clinton's impeachment. Bossie was also highly critical of Robert Fiske at this press conference.

Gannett News, 8/10/94

Columbia Journalism Review described Bossie in May 1994. In May 1994, Trudy Lieberman, a senior editor at Consumer Reports wrote: "Bossie, the twenty-eight-year-old political director for Citizens United, a conservative Republican operation, runs an information factory whose Whitewater production lines turn out a steady stream of tips, tidbits, documents, factoids, suspicions, and story ideas for the nation's press and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Journalists and Hill Republicans have recycled much of the information provided by Citizens United into stories that have cast a shadow on the Clinton presidency."

Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994

The article also described him as a "source par excellence to journalists dredging the Whitewater swamp" who claims to get eighteen calls an hour.

Columbia Journalism Review, May/June1994

In 1992 Brown & Bossie harassed the family of a suicide victim. In April, 1992, 30 news organizations received "an anonymous and untraceable letter" by fax "claiming Clinton had had an affair with a former law student who committed suicide 15 years ago." Floyd Brown attempted to link Clinton to the 1977 suicide of this, "emotionally distraught young woman, seven-months pregnant," Susan Coleman.

CBS Evening News, 7/13/92

Brown's associates "repeatedly contacted the woman's family in an unsuccessful attempt to confirm the charges."

San Francisco Chronicle, 7/28/92; "CBS Evening News," 7/13/92

Bossie and ex-DC police officer Jim Murphy questionedSusan Coleman's mother and her husband as well as her friends. They even tried to find out what was in Susan's suicide note.

"CBS Evening News," 7/13/92

Bossie and Murphy followed Susan's mother to an Army hospital in Augusta, GA where her husband was being treated for a stroke. They "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide."

CBS Evening News, 7/13/92

Bossie & NBC executive producer chased Schaffer around Fayetteville. In January 1994, Brown's associate, David Bossie was seen with NBC network producer Ira Silverman attempting to interview former Arkansas state Banking Commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer. Silverman admitted using Bossie for background information, but denied working together on the interview. Schaffer's husband said the two "jumped out from behind [a] car... [and] chased her through the streets."

Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/20/94

Beverly Bassett Schaffer said she was "ambushed" and then "stalked" around Fayetteville by Bossie and Silverman. Schaffer said that her car was rushed twice by Silverman, an NBC camera crew, and Bossie.

The Fayetteville Morning News, 1/15/92

Silverman said, "I talk to them [Brown and Bossie] along with everyone else. Back in October and November it was difficult to develop sources."

Columbia Journalism Review, 5-6/94

Bossie claimed to be fueling Whitewater. In May 1994, Bossie said that "Citizens United" had provided Whitewater information to "the top fifty major publications, networks, and editorial boards... We've provided the same material on the Hill both on the House and Senate side." Bossie also claimed that he would have gladly provided documents to Democrats, but they haven't asked.

Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994

Bossie praised Brown... called politics a "full contact sport." In 1994, Brown claimed that he was harsher and meaner than most in politics and Bossie said, "That's right, Stick and jab. Stick and jab and keep on moving. Politics. It's definitely a full-contact sport."

New York Times, 4/24/94

Chicago Tribune described Bossie in March 1994. In March 1994, Carol Jouzaitis of the Chicago Tribune wrote of Bossie, "The researcher, David Bossie, harvests tales of alleged wrongdoings from a network of Clinton enemies, then peddles them to Capitol Hill and media contacts in hopes of prompting scandalous stories."

Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94

Time described Bossie's dirt-digging in January 1994. In January 1994, Time magazine wrote, "Brown's associate, David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt. Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources.

Time, 1/24/94

In mid-January Time reported that Floyd Brown was covertly feeding information and "hard-to-find" documents to reporters and Hill Republicans looking into Whitewater. Time said that David Bossie had been to Little Rock several times "digging for dirt." Evidently, some Whitewater "tale tellers" prefer to deal with Brown and Bossie "figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources."

Time, 1/24/94

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CU:

Board of Directors of Citizens United includes the following individuals:[1]

https://ballotpedia.org/Citizens_United

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wiki

Citizens United Productions, headed by president David Bossie, has released 25 feature-length documentaries. The following is a list of films produced by Citizens United Productions.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1260360/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Gary Aldrich ... Himself

Michael Barone Michael Barone ... Himself

Bay Buchanan Bay Buchanan ... Herself

Bill Clinton Bill Clinton ... Himself (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton ... Herself (archive footage) (as Hillary Rodham Clinton)

Ann Coulter Ann Coulter ... Herself

Frank Gaffney Frank Gaffney ... Himself

Newt Gingrich Newt Gingrich ... Himself

Larry Kudlow Larry Kudlow ... Himself

Michael Medved Michael Medved ... Himself

Dick Morris Dick Morris ... Himself

Robert D. Novak Robert D. Novak ... Himself

Kate O'Beirne Kate O'Beirne ... Herself

R. Emmett Tyrrell R. Emmett Tyrrell ... Himself

Kathleen Willey Kathleen Willey ... Herself

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LAT

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0301-bossie-citizens-united-20160226-story.html

not sorry

In 2007, my organization produced a documentary called "Hillary: The Movie" and tried to put it on TV. The name of our nonprofit? Citizens United.

Our name, of course, has become synonymous with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that followed in 2010. And ever since it unfairly has become the boogeyman of liberal politicians, blamed for opening the floodgates to excesses of money in elections. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders say opposing Citizens United should be a litmus test for the next Supreme Court justice, and both support a constitutional amendment to overturn it.

To me, however, the decision represented — then and now — a sweeping victory against government censorship of free speech, especially political speech.

Prior to it, American political speech was stifled by excessive and burdensome rules aimed at protecting incumbents and the establishment class of both parties. As Justice Kennedy explained in his opinion, since the Federal Election Campaign Act was enacted in the 1970s, the Federal Election Commission had adopted 568 pages of regulations, drafted 1,278 pages of explanations and justifications for those regulations, and issued 1,771 advisory opinions interpreting the law. There were rules for 71 distinct types of entities, each of which was subject to separate rules for 33 different types of political speech.

People upset by the repercussions of Citizens United might blame me, or maybe Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion. But they should turn their gaze to filmmaker Michael Moore. In June 2004 — a presidential election year — he released "Fahrenheit 9/11."That documentary — produced and promoted with corporate money— made a tremendous impact in the run-up to election day. TV was filled with ads for the film, which made President George W. Bush look ridiculous in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That inspired me to produce conservative films.

But when I made "Hillary: The Movie" in 2008, the Federal Election Commission argued that,unlike Moore's film[really?] , it was a form of "electioneering" and that I couldn't show it during an election season— the very time that free speech matters most. Under the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws, the government could actually have thrown me in jail for showing "Hillary: The Movie" or its promotional ads on television.[really?]

Our case focused narrowly on making "Hillary: The Movie" available as video-on-demand. But the justices rightly looked at the bigger picture. 

If federal election laws could be used to prevent mynonprofit organization from advertising or distributing our movie, what was to prevent other forms of speech with corporate ties — books from publishing houses, DVDs from film studios — from being limited during an election cycle if they mentioned or favored a political candidate?

It's worth remembering that during the first round of oral arguments, Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart asserted that McCain-Feingold's limitations "could have been applied to additional media as well." Under that kind of broad interpretation of the law, Michael Bay's "13 Hours" about the debacle in Benghazi, Libya, or Johnny Depp's "Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie" also could have been challenged for violating corporate political spending during an election season.

Simply put, since the Citizens United decision there is more free speech in America — and, importantly, no evidence that corporations have been able to buy an election. In fact, the candidates with the biggest super-PAC war chests have often lost. Jeb Bush, who spent more than $100 million before dropping out of the Republican primary on Feb. 20, is just the most recent example.

I don't mean to suggest that the Citizens United ruling has had no effect.

This regulatory scheme was thwarting the ability of anti-establishment candidates to get their messages out. And our 2010 victory knocked a hole in it. It made it clear the 1st Amendment protects everyone's speech during the process of choosing elected leaders — and that their voices couldn't be stifled by spending caps or blackout periods.

Almost immediately, a shift began that has put the political establishment on its heels. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Rand Paul defeated GOP establishment candidates in Senate primaries in the2010 election. Scores of [KOCH FUNDED]tea party-backed candidateswere elected to the House, returning that body to Republican control. Super-PAC spending in support of former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz helped him defeat a well-funded Washington-backed opponent on his way to the U.S. Senate.

While some critics of the Citizens United decision are driven by ideology, many just preferred the status quo. Most politicians surround themselves with high-priced election consultants and lawyers who are masters of Washington's rule book — and they want to retain the advantage they're paying for.

For Clinton, it's not really about ideology, corporations or money; it's about her. After her lopsided loss in New Hampshire, she tried to out-Bern Bernie Sanders, reasserting that (despite her own super PAC backing) she's ready to reverse Citizens United. In her concession speech Clinton ranted, "Citizens United, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in our country's history, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign. A right-wing organization took aim at me and ended up damaging our entire democracy."

Not surprisingly, I disagree. The right of anyone to criticize political leaders and political opponents is one of the founding principles of our democracy.

:{That said, I do believe we need common-sense campaign finance reform. We should raise the limits on direct contributions to candidates and traditional membership PACs — which would help make super PACs unnecessary and obsolete. Increasing the disclosure threshold for individual contributions from $200 to $1,000 also would reduce the burden of election regulations and promote more participation in politics.

In the final analysis, I will always believe that more speech is better than less speech.}:

David N. Bossie is the President of Citizens United, which was the plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.

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https://ballotpedia.org/David_Bossie

David Bossie is the president of the nonprofit Citizens United. From September 1 to November 8, 2016, he served as the deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, taking a leave of absence from Citizens United.[1]

A longtime conservative activist, Bossie was named second on a Politico Magazine list of those transforming politics in 2015.

Career

Background

Bossie attended the University of Maryland, and he served as a volunteer firefighter in Maryland for 20 years.[2]

U.S. House investigations of Bill Clinton

According to The Washington Post, Bossie first came into the public spotlight during the presidency of Bill Clinton (D), when Bossie was a "Republican congressional staffer who aggressively delved into the Clintons’ finances and dealings."[3]In 1995, Bossie joined the staff of Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.), who was involved in the Whitewater investigations.[4] In 1996, he began working as an aide to Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), where Bossie served as the chief investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, specifically looking into the 1996 Clinton campaign's fundraising practices.[5][2] Bossie, who The New York Times had called "a dogged anti-Clinton sleuth," resigned after he released edited tapes of prison phone calls made by Webster Hubbell, the former United States associate attorney general.[6]

Citizens United

See also: Citizens United

Early work

In 1992, Bossie began working for Citizens United, a group founded by Floyd Brown that "seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security." During the 1992 presidential campaign, Bossie and Brown investigated then-candidate Bill Clinton (D), including unsubstantiated allegations about Clinton's personal life. The campaign for President George H.W. Bush (R) filed an FEC complaint against Bossie and Citizens United for their campaigning tactics after the group produced an "ad inviting voters to call a hot line to hear (almost certainly doctored) tape-recorded conversations between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers," according to a 2004 report in Salon.[7]

President

In 2001, Bossie became the president of the conservative activist group. During this time, the group became known for its successful landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.[2] At stake in the case was whether the group's film critical of a political candidate could be defined as an "electioneering communication" under the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.[8] The Supreme Court held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited, because doing so would violate the First Amendment.[8]

In 2016, Bossie wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times regarding his role at Citizens United and in the Citizens United Supreme Court case. In the piece, Bossie stated his belief that the case was primarily about free speech, not money in politics. He wrote:[9]

“Our name, of course, has become synonymous with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling ... in 2010. And ever since it unfairly has become the boogeyman of liberal politicians, blamed for opening the floodgates to excesses of money in elections. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders say opposing Citizens United should be a litmus test for the next Supreme Court justice, and both support a constitutional amendment to overturn it. To me, however, the decision represented — then and now — a sweeping victory against government censorship of free speech, especially political speech.[10]”

In 2015, based on his work with Citizens United and the campaign finance that the Supreme Court decision ushered in, Politico Magazine ranked Bossie second on its list of those transforming politics. The article cited Bossie's role in shaping "the campaign new normal" of super PACs and satellite spending for the 2016 election cycle.[11]

Republican Party of Maryland

Bossie was elected in 2016 to serve a four-year term as the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Maryland.[12]

Presidential election, 2016

More on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign staff
Staff overview
• Trump staff overview

Management and strategy

•Steve Bannon, Executive chairman

•Kellyanne Conway, Campaign manager

•David Bossie, Deputy campaign manager

•Michael Glassner, Deputy campaign manager

•Jim Murphy, National political director

•John Mashburn, Policy director

Communications

•Hope Hicks, Communications director

•Jason Miller, Senior communications advisor

•Katrina Pierson, Campaign spokesperson

Advisors

•Roger Stone, Informal advisor

•Sam Clovis, Co-chair and policy advisor

•Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Senior advisor

•Michael Biundo, Senior advisor

Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016

See also: Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016

On September 1, 2016, Bossie was hired as the deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. At the time, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said, "He's a battle-tested warrior and a brilliant strategist. He's a nuts-and-bolts tactician as well, who's going to help us fully integrate our ground game and data operations, and help with overall strategy as my deputy."[1] When Bossie was hired, The Washington Post reported that he was expected to "work on crafting attacks against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, mining past controversies involving her and former president Bill Clinton, and cultivating Trump’s bond with conservative activists."[3]

Make America Number 1 super PAC

See also: Make America Number 1

In June 2016, Republican donor Robert Mercer converted a pro-Ted Cruz super PAC, Keep the Promise I, into an anti-Hillary Clinton super PAC, Make America Number 1. The group was informally known as the "Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC," language reflecting the campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg. Bossie was hired to run the super PAC by Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who had been in charge of Keep the Promise and left to join the Trump campaign shortly after. Upon taking the role with the super PAC, Bossie said, "This is an opportunity to really refocus the presidential debate around Hillary Clinton and her character, and the whole culture of corruption that’s surrounded the Clintons for decades."[13]

Conway was promoted to Trump's campaign manager in August 2016, two weeks before Bossie was also hired on to the campaign itself.[14]

Writing

Bossie is also a contributor Breitbart News and Fox News, and he has authored several political books, including:[15]

Intelligence Failure: How Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 (2004)

The Many Faces of John Kerry (2004) WND https://www.amazon.com/Many-Faces-John-Kerry-Massachusetts/dp/B005ZOMR3O

Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction (2008)

Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore (2010)

Top influencers by state

See also: Top influencers by state

In 2016, Ballotpedia identified David Bossie as a top influencer by state. We identified top influencers across the country through several means, including the following:Influencers in American politics are power players who help get candidates elected, put through policy proposals, cause ideological changes, and affect popular perceptions. They can take on many forms: politicians, lobbyists, advisors, donors, corporations, industry groups, labor unions, single-issue organizations, nonprofits, to name a few.

Local knowledge of our professional staff

Surveys of activists, thought leaders and journalists from across the country and political spectrum

Outreach to political journalists in each state who helped refine our lists

Recent news

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms 'David Bossie'. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles.

David Bossie - Google News

See also

Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016

Make America Number 1

Citizens United

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

External links

Citizens United official website

David Bossie on Facebook

David Bossie, author at *Breitbart*

David Bossie on Twitter

Footnotes

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booktv

Bossie talked about hisbook,Intelligence Failure: How Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11, published by WND Books. In the book, the author writes that Clinton administration policies were responsible for allowing al-Qaida to plan and execute a number of attacks against American targets, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, two 1998 Africa embassy bombings, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. He further alleges that the Clinton administration’s poor relationship with the U.S. military and intelligence services, as well as its failure to take the fight to al-Qaida in any significant way, may have contributed to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?182253-4/intelligence-failure

amazon review has woolsey quote endorse i can't find;

https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Failure-Clintons-National-Security/dp/0785260749

eight years before 9/11, on February 26, 1993, Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network declared war against the United States with a deadly attack on the World Trade Center. Al Qaeda continued to wage war on the U.S. throughout the Clinton Administration, attacking Khobar Towers in 1996, two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. How could these attacks happen? How could Al Qaeda wage these assaults against the strongest, best-defended nation in the world? Intelligence Failure is the definitive account of Bill Clinton's greatest failure as president. Using exclusive research and previously unreported findings from congressional investigations and other sources, David Bossie details how Clinton's poor leadership and denigration of both the U.S. military and intelligence services exposed America to terrorist assault. "September 11, 2001, may have happened under Bush's watch," Bossie declares, "but it will always remain Clinton's legacy."

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https://www.nytimes.com/:{2004:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:/09/10/politics/campaign/election-board-restricts-ads-for-antikerry-film.html

,Sept. 9- The Federal Election Commission on Thursday denied a request by an independent advocacy group touse unregulated contributionsto pay for television and radio commercials promoting a documentary and a book critical of Senator John Kerry.

The group, Citizens United, had hoped to get around restrictions in new campaign finance laws that prevent organizations from running commercials that mention a candidate within 60 days of the general election if the commercials are financed with unlimited soft money contributions from corporations or labor unions.

The group argued that it was part of the news media and could therefore take advantage of an exemption that allows news, commentary and editorial content to run freely around elections. But the commission voted 4 to 0 to approve an advisory saying that the group did not qualify.

"You don't want a situation where people are airing campaign commercials and they are exempt from commission rules because they are considered a media event," said Ellen L. Weintraub, the commission's vice chairwoman, a Democrat. "The danger is that the exemption swallows the rules."

David N. Bossie, the group's president, said he was "clearly disappointed" by the ruling.

"They want to limit free speech, and that's what this issue is about for us," Mr. Bossie said.

Continue reading the main story

The case is one of several in which campaigns, advocacy groups, entertainment companies and other organizations have recently sought to clarify -- and in some cases circumvent -- the advertising restrictions.

Continue reading the main stor

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Perhaps the most prominent case involved the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," which is harshly critical of President Bush. Citizens United filed a complaint with the commission in June asserting that advertisements for the movie would violate the law if they ran around election time. The complaint was dismissed after the film's creator, Michael Moore, and his associates said they did not plan to run such commercials.

In Thursday's case, the group focused on its own documentary (it has not announced the title), which will be released in coming weeks. Citizens United asked the commission whether it could legally pay to run the film on television, as well as whether it could advertise the film, around election time. It had similar questions about advertising for a book written by Mr. Bossie, titled "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong for America" (WND Books).

The group, created in 1988, has run ads in support of Mr. Bush and donated to his campaign through its political action committee. It also produced video documentaries in the 1990's, including "Sinister Secrets of the U.N." and "Confidential Report: Bill Clinton, Al Gore and the Communist Chinese Connection."

Citizens United argued that it was part of the news media because it had distributed newsletters, position papers, video documentaries, infomercials and books.

The commission disagreed, noting that the organization was buying air time, rather than getting paid to provide content, and that it did not routinely produce documentaries.

"Once a vote is cast you cannot take it back. Americans owe it to themselves to learn as much as they can about the real candidates, beyond the phony images projected by the media consultants and the press. Whether or not you agree with their conclusions, Bossie and Brown have painted a revealing portrait of Al Gore- exactly the kind of material every American should know. Prince Albert brilliantly serves up what is a voter's most valuable resource- information."- Professor Larry Sabato, University of Virginia

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From the guys who first exposed Bill Clinton, a scathing indictment of the career and views of his "cheerleader in cheif." -- Richard Lowry, Editor, National Review

Prince Albert...is thoroughly researched and footnoted and facts are stubborn things, as Al Gore will discover. -- John Fund, Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

You've heard about it on talk radio. But this book is even better than all the hype! A must read. -- Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, Talk America Radio Network

192 ppMerril Press

https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Albert-Life-Lies-Gore/dp/0936783281

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ctr publ integrity tag:

https://www.publicintegrity.org/news/David-Bossie

fine for scams (old ppl?

information isn’t public.

Political committees that have hiredInfoCision include Carson America, the campaign committee representing former presidential candidate Ben Carson, which paid $5.2 million. A Carson representative could not immediately be reached.

A pro-Trump committee, Great America PAC, has spent $435,600 on InfoCision since 2016, according to FEC filings.

The Tea Party Majority Fund has spent about $2.2 million on InfoCision since 2013, and the Tea Party Leadership Fund paid the company about $433,100 during the same time period.

Conservative-leaning Citizens United Political Victory Fund, which is led by Trump’s former deputy campaign manager David Bossie, has paid InfoCision $2.1 million since 2013.

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https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/01/10/21463/telemarketer-conservative-causes-pays-250000-fine

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https://xxx.theguardian.com/us-news/**2016/sep**/03/citizens-united-david-bossie-trump-campaign

Trump's new hire David Bossie has decades-long history attacking Clintons

Donald Trump’s new deputy campaign manager made his name digging up dirt on Bill Clinton in 1992 and was the force behind the Citizens United ruling

Lauren Gambino in New York

@laurenegambino

Sat 3 Sep 2016

In the late 1990s, David Bossie overreached in his zealous pursuit of the Clintons and it cost him his job. But after 20 years of investigating the couple, Bossie has once again been summoned to help bring down his old foe, Hillary Clinton, this time from the perch of a presidential campaign with no apparent limits.

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he hired Bossie as a deputy campaign manager during an interview with the Washington Post. Trump described Bossie to the paper as “a friend of mine for many years. Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how to win.”

Though Bossie has a long, controversial history of digging into the Clintons’ many scandals – real and perceived – he is now more commonly known as the force behind the landmark 2010 supreme court ruling that opened the floodgates to huge corporate funding on election campaigns. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has vowed to overturn the decision and push for limits on the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

The case, Citizens United v the Federal Election Commission, stemmed from a decision by the FEC to block the conservative advocacy group, from publishing an unfavorable documentary about Hillary Clinton in early 2008, when she was locked in a tough primary battle with Barack Obama.

The supreme court case was only one iteration of a deeply antagonistic relationship between Hillary Clinton and Citizens United that dates to before her husband was president.

A 1997 Washington Post profile of Bossie traces his first turn on the national stage to 1992, when a CBS documentary identified him as one of two men who had been harassing the parents and friends of a young woman who had killed herself some years before. The men were reportedly trying to confirm that the woman had killed herself after becoming pregnant by her law professor, Bill Clinton.

During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Bossie, a college drop-out and volunteer firefighter, began to develop a reputation as a “bloodhound” and a “dogged anti-Clinton sleuth”. After Clinton was elected, Bossie joined Citizens United as a researcher, which eventually led him to the early discovery of what became the Whitewater real estate scandal.

Bossie became a staffer on the Senate’s special committee on Whitewater and he was later promoted by the speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, to chief investigator for the House’s government reform and oversight committee. He was pushed to resign in 1998 amid criticism of his overzealous tactics.

In the profile, published one year before his resignation, the Post compared Bossie to Roy Cohn, the bare-knuckled right-hand man for Senator Joe McCarthy who mentored Donald Trump.

Before joining Trump’s campaign, Bossie served as president of Citizens United and head of the Super Pac Defeat Crooked Hillary. He has taken a leave of absence from both organizations while he serves on Trump’s campaign.

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Bossie is among a slate of recent top-level hires that include Stephen Bannon, the former head of the conspiracy theory-laden website, Breitbart News, where Bossie has occasionally been published, and Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster and strategist.

The triumvirate of new hires are close allies of shadowy hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. According to Bloomberg, Mercer has invested heavily in Breitbart News and helped finance a documentary spin-off of Clinton Cash, a book written by conservative author Peter Schweizer.

The addition of Bossie, in many ways the early architect of what Hillary Clinton would famously call the “vast rightwing conspiracy”, signals that the Trump campaign has no intention of leaving any Clinton controversy untouched. Trump has already shown a willingness to revive some of the most sensational – and some of the darkest – Clinton controversies, including Bill Clinton’s marital infidelity and the 1993 suicide of Vincent Foster, a Clinton White House aide and a personal friend.

On Thursday night, Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, said the decision to hire Bossie is another example of how the Republican nominee has embraced the “rightwing fringe”.

“David Bossie is so craven and maniacal that in the heyday of the overreaching, Gingrich-era Congress, the top Whitewater conspiracy theorist in the House had to fire him for doctoring evidence,” Podesta said.

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A FIREFIGHTER'S BLAZING TRAIL

AN ARTICLE IN YESTERDAY'S STYLE SECTION EXAGGERATED THE ROLE OF THE STEPHENS INC. INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM IN THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION. THE COMPANY--ONE OF THOSE EXECUTIVES IS THE FATHER OF FORMER ROLL CALL REPORTER MARY JACOBY, WHO WROTE IN 1996 ABOUT DAVID BOSSIE, THEN A SENATE INVESTIGATOR--FIGURED ONLY TANGENTIALLY IN THE PROBE. (PUBLISHED 11/14/97)

By Lloyd GroveNovember 13, 1997

He's trying hard to be inconspicuous -- a barrel-chested, crew-cut, bespectacled guy hanging furtively in the back doorway of a House committee room -- butDavid Bossie is impossible to miss. Dancing from side to side in his dull-gray suit, unable to suppress a tiny swagger, he looks a little like an overdressed Saturday night wrestler -- "The Destroyer" perhaps.

That, at least, is how President Clinton's friends would like to portray this 32-year-old college dropout and volunteer firefighter, the man who has become the nation's leading impresario of Clinton White House scandals. "Bossie is a pretty destructive fellow," says Clinton loyalist David Pryor, the retired senator from Arkansas. "I don't think I ever met him, but I never heard anything good about him. . . . His tactics are unconscionable, as far as I'm concerned, and I think he deals in a sort of cesspool world."

"He's something like a kamikaze," says Beverly Bassett Schaffer, the former Clinton-appointed chairman of the Arkansas securities commission who once accused Bossie -- along with a network television crew -- of "stalking" her on the streets of Fayetteville. "I think he's reckless. He throws bombs wherever he wants, and whoever's in the path between him and the enemy -- look out!"

Bossie -- who declined to be interviewed for this article -- lives at Firehouse 15 in Burtonsville, sleeping fitfully between alarms in a Spartan bunk bed. He ran 423 emergency calls last year, everything from delivering babies to dousing house blazes to cutting trapped victims out of car wrecks.

But he's far better known as the most visible investigator on Republican Rep. Dan Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee, the House panel probing Democratic campaign finance abuses. Burton, a staunch Indiana conservative who regularly denounces the Clinton White House for all manner of perceived perfidy, has leaned heavily on Bossie to rescue the embattled investigation and mount public hearings, including one scheduled for today. Bossie has been laboring mightily to lower his profile.

Fat chance. Not since Roy Cohn -- the bare-knuckled chief counsel for Sen. Joe McCarthy in the Red-hunting hearings of the 1950s -- has a congressional staffer been so thoroughly demonized by his enemies. And it has been a long time since a staffer stirred up such a fuss in Congress.

Although hejoined Burton's staff last fall as chief investigator -- a post for which he's paid about $105,000 annually -- Bossie is now simply "a member of the investigative team," according to the majority counsel, Richard Bennett. Bennett is a new arrival to the committee; he started work in September after the committee's former counsel, John Rowley, left in July, along with two other staffers, following repeated clashes with Bossie.

Rowley's departure was highly public. His stinging letter of resignation, blast-faxed to the media, complained about "the unrelenting self-promoting' actions of the Committee's Investigative Coordinator," David Bossie.

According to committee sources, GOP Reps. Christopher Cox of California, Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Rob Portman of Ohio (none of whom returned a reporter's phone calls) pressed Burton to fire Bossie after Rowley's exit. At the time, Burton refused.

But with Bennett -- a former U.S. attorney of Maryland -- hiring a new chief investigator, veteran FBI agent Dudley "Butch" Hodgson, and sitting down for a beer with Rowley, there's increasing speculation among House Republicans that the chairman may soon be forced to drop the ax.

"I think they're wrong," says Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), a rare panel member willing to defend Bossie publicly. "I would say first of all that I like him a lot. I think he is a catalyst. He has creative ideas, energy, he's bright. I know he can be very aggressive and if you're his adversary, you may not like him. But he's making a contribution to the committee."

Rep.Henry Waxman of California, the committee's senior Democrat and a frequent critic of the panel's investigative procedures, is not so sure Bossie is doomed. He speculates that Bossie "must have Mr. Burton's full confidence because he decided to support Mr. Bossie and allow Mr. Rowley to leave."

Burton, for his part, refuses to comment on Bossie. "I really do not intend to get into a discussion about any of the committee's employees," he said last week.

Nevertheless, with the Senate's campaign finance investigation recently shut down, Burton's committee is taking center stage. Bossie is taking some heat.

"It's stating the obvious to say Bossie has an agenda, and that agenda is to take down Clinton," says a Republican Capitol Hill staffer who, like many who were interviewed, requested anonymity. "He's a decent guy, he's savvy, he generally knows how to deal with the press, he knows how to advance a story. . . . But the problem is, he leads with his agenda, and that drives everything -- and that just tends to undermine the credibility of the investigation."

"The climate has become extremely partisan -- really a polarized, poisoned atmosphere that has made it difficult to function on almost any matter," says Burton's predecessor as chairman, retired Pennsylvania congressman William Clinger.

Bossie's reputation precedes him -- and Clinton operatives work hard to assure that he never shakes it off. Since the 1992 presidential campaign, when he was a top official of the right-wing lobby Citizens United, publisher of the Clinton-bashing paperback, "Slick Willie" -- in which Citizens United president Floyd Brown called Bossie "the bloodhound who sniffed out many of the interesting stories enclosed" -- friends of Clinton have had Bossie in their sights.

He first came to national attention in a July 1992 report on the "CBS Evening News." It was not an auspicious debut.

Correspondent Eric Engberg reported that Bossie and a retired D.C. police officer, Jim Murphy, both working for Brown, had been harassing the friends and family of Susan Coleman, who had committed suicide years before. They were trying to confirm that Coleman shot herself "following a love affair with her law professor, Bill Clinton, that left her pregnant," Engberg reported. Bossie and Murphy trailed Coleman's mother to an Army hospital in Augusta, Ga., where her husband was being treated for a stroke. "Here the two men burst into the sick man's room," Engberg narrated, "and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide."A chastened Bossie later told friends that the CBS story had made his grandmother cry.

Bossie decided to lighten up on sex and follow the money. During gumshoe trips through Arkansas in 1992 and 1993, he collected key contacts and documents regarding the Clintons' ill-fated Whitewater real estate investment and related problems. Throughout 1994, reporters -- including regulars from the major television networks and such establishment outlets as the New York Times and The Washington Post -- listened as Bossie held forth on the Clintons' complex financial entanglements.

"The Secret Spinner," Newsweek magazine dubbed him at the time. Bossie, who once toyed with the idea of becoming an investigative journalist, had by then developed an impressive reputation for honesty and accuracy among the mainstream press -- which made him unusual, if not unique, among ideological activists of any stripe.

"Dave Bossie has never lied to me, and the Clinton White House has lied to me," says ABC News producer Chris Vlasto, echoing the comments of other reporters. "If it comes down to a question of whom do you believe, I'd believe Bossie any day."

It was around this time that Bossie cemented his friendship with "Dan," as he and other senior staffers call Chairman Burton. Starting in March 1994, Bossie regularly fed the congressman suggestions for Whitewater speeches, which Burton then delivered on the House floor. Burton came to rely on Bossie's advice, once tracking him down by phone to Ocean City, Md., where Bossie was partying with some of his firefighter buddies.

In July 1995, Bossie took his anti-Clinton crusade to a bigger venue, becoming Sen. Lauch Faircloth's (R-N.C.) personal aide on the Senate Whitewater Committee. He was a conspicuous presence at the hearings, continually whispering in Faircloth's ear. "He's a very tenacious fellow, strong in his opinions, strong in his determination to get at the bottom of things," Faircloth says. "Let me say that we stayed pretty closely on top of what he was doing."

According to a Republican senator, Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y) was concerned from the start about Bossie's reputation for leaking. When unauthorized leaks did occur, this senator says, D'Amato admonished Bossie to "knock it off." Bossie, whether responsible or not, promised he would.

Richard Ben-Veniste, who was the Whitewater Committee's chief Democratic counsel, came away from the experience an unlikely Bossie fan.

"Because he was such a notorious bad boy, and because he had such an intimate relationship with the press, he became a lightning rod and was used to deflect attention from other leakers on the Whitewater Committee," Ben-Veniste says. "They frequently used the BDI defense.' BDI stands for Bossie Did It.' "

Ben-Veniste adds: "I like him. He was refreshingly candid. One of my beefs over a long career is hypocrisy, and Bossie is unvarnished and candid in his objectives."

"Under the tutelage and direction of about two or three people in Arkansas," says Clinton apologistJames Carville, "Bossie is responsible for the greatest political dirty trick in American history -- this entire Whitewater thing. It's resulted in three congressional investigations, two special prosecutors . . . and it's all come to nothing. He made collective fools out of about 80 percent of the national press corps. I wish I was as skillful at manipulating the media as he is."

In fact, the Clinton people have done some skillful media manipulation of their own. A lengthy discussion of Bossie was a key element of last year's White House study of aso-called anti-Clinton "conspiracy" in the "media food chain"(this document, widely ridiculed, came to be known informally around the West Wing as "The Puke Stream"). The White House also prepared a dossier on Bossie that was distributed to reporters outside the Whitewater hearing room in February 1996.

The dossier included a fund-raising letter from Citizens United -- "the same people who are responsible for the Willie Horton negative attack advertisement {in 1988}," White House special counsel Mark Fabianiwrote in a cover note. In the letter, Floyd Brown claimed that "our top investigator, David Bossie, is on the inside directing the {Senate} probe."

Brown's letter prompted several Democratic senators to heap attacks on Bossie while a chagrined D'Amato ordered Bossie to swear in an affidavit that he was no longer employed by Brown's group.

Jane Sherburne, who was deputy White House counsel at the time, recalls being approached by Bossie in the hearing room as the Floyd Brown letter was having its desired impact.

"So how does it feel to get a little back?" the White House lawyer asked the Republican aide.

"You're not doing a bad job," Bossie replied.

"Thank you, I take that as a compliment.

"Well, you should."

Sherburne says today: "I kind of had to respect the guy."

Bossie knows hardball. When Roll Call reporter Mary Jacoby wrote a tough profile of him in early 1996, he made it his business to find out that Jacoby's father was a top executive in the Arkansas-based investment banking firm Stephens Inc., a company that figured prominently in the Whitewater probe. Then he set about spreading the news, resulting in a Robert Novak column suggesting that Jacoby had a conflict of interest.

More recently, Bossie has paid back Clinton loyalist Lynn Cutler -- now a White House aide -- for putting his photograph along with an unflattering biography on the Web site of Cutler's pro-Clinton organization, "Back to Business." The group recently disbanded, but the Burton committee subpoenaed the group's private donation records, which indicate a $25,000 contribution from the notorious Johnny Chung, one of today's witnesses.

"All I can tell you is that I've done nothing wrong," Cutler says.

Bossie was born in Boston, the second of four children of an X-ray technician father and a nurse mother, and grew up in Connecticut and Michigan before his family settled in Montgomery County. He attended Towson University and the University of Maryland but never graduated, neglecting his studies for the thrill of politics.

As an 18-year-old in 1984, he was smitten with Ronald Reagan and volunteered in the reelection campaign. Throwing himself into the College Republicans, he next worked against Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md.) in 1986, and went on to become Sen. Bob Dole's Maryland youth organizer in the 1988 presidential contest. That was when he met Brown, a Dole organizer in the Midwest.

Anaccomplished political networker, Bossie snagged a job with Morton Blackwell after the presidential campaign, and arrived at Citizens United in 1991. He has been a volunteer firefighter for the past seven years. While he might discover that it's easier to put out a real fire than political one, some are betting on Bossie.

"I know Bossie by reputation as a hard case, a point man, a tough guy," says former congressman Clinger. "But sometimes you need to have a tough pit bull on your side."

Special correspondent Anne Farris contributed to this report. CAPTION: The man behind the investigation: David Bossie, below and with Rep. Dan Burton at a news conference on the House probe into Clinton's finances. CAPTION: David Bossie at the Burtonsville fire station where, when not pursuing the campaign finance investigation as a GOP staffer, he's a volunteer firefighter.

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CU $

oddly peak 2008? 2016 1/2 of 2014 offyear?

Total Receipts$1,382,818
Total Spent$1,373,210
Begin Cash on Hand$541,729
End Cash on Hand$551,338
Debts$0
Independent Expenditures$69,969
Date of last reportDecember 31, 2016

2016 PAC Contribution Data

Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates (list recipients)

(0% to Democrats, 96% to Republicans)

$211,500
Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more( list donors)$252,540

Official PAC Name:

CITIZENS UNITED POLITICAL VICTORY FUND 

Location: WASHINGTON, DC 20003

Industry: Republican/Conservative

Treasurer: ALLEN, KEVIN 

FEC Committee ID: C00295527

(Look up actual documents filed at the FEC)

total 200k fed

Presidential

Total to Democrats: $0

Total to Republicans: $5,000| Recipient | Total |

Trump, Donald (R)$5,000

House

Total to Democrats: $500

Total to Republicans: $165,000| Recipient | Total |

Amash, Justin (R-MI)$2,500
Banks, Jim (R-IN)$5,000
Biggs, Andy (R-AZ)$2,500
Blum, Rod (R-IA)$3,500
Bongino, Dan (R-FL)$5,000
Brat, Dave (R-VA)$4,000
Bridenstine, James (R-OK)$3,500
Brooks, Mo (R-AL)$2,500
Buck, Kenneth R (R-CO)$2,500
Carroll, Morgan (D-CO)$500
Comstock, Barbara (R-VA)$5,000
Daly, Kay (R-NC)$2,000
DeSantis, Ron (R-FL)$10,000
Duncan, Jeff (R-SC)$2,500
Duncan, Jim (R-NC)$5,000
Flynn, Mike (R-IL)$5,000
Franks, Trent (R-AZ)$1,000
Garrett, Scott (R-NJ)$3,000
Gerritson, Becky (R-AL)$5,000
Gohmert, Louis B Jr (R-TX)$5,000
Gosar, Paul (R-AZ)$2,500
Griffith, Morgan (R-VA)$1,000
Harris, Andy (R-MD)$5,000
Hice, Jody B (R-GA)$1,000
Huelskamp, Tim (R-KS)$5,000
Johnson, Mike (R-LA)$2,500
Jordan, Jim (R-OH)$3,500
King, Steven A (R-IA)$10,000
Labrador, Raul (R-ID)$6,000
Lynch, Matt (R-OH)$2,500
Massie, Thomas (R-KY)$3,500
Mast, Brian (R-FL)$6,000
Meadows, Mark R (R-NC)$6,000
Mooney, Alex (R-WV)$4,500
Mooney, Patrick (R-FL)$2,500
Mulvaney, Mick (R-SC)$1,000
Palmer, Gary (R-AL)$2,500
Perry, Scott (R-PA)$1,000
Plaster, Mark (R-MD)$1,000
Posey, Bill (R-FL)$1,000
Ramsland, Russ (R-TX)$2,500
Salmon, Matt (R-AZ)$2,500
Schweikert, David (R-AZ)$1,000
Tenney, Claudia (R-NY)$6,000
Thomas, Mary (R-FL)$5,000
Toth, Steve (R-TX)$2,500
Weber, Randy (R-TX)$1,000
Webster, Daniel (R-FL)$1,000
Yoho, Ted (R-FL)$1,000

Senate

Total to Democrats: $0

Total to Republicans: $33,500| Recipient | Total |

Fleming, John (R-LA)$5,000
Glenn, Darryl (R-CO)$1,000
Lee, Mike (R-UT)$5,000
Long, Wendy (R-NY)$2,500
McConnell, Jonathan (R-AL)$5,000
Stutzman, Marlin (R-IN)$5,000
Szeliga, Kathy (R-MD)$10,00

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00295527

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...How does someone get nominated to the Business Advisory Council?

The Presidential Coalition’s Founder and President, Dave Bossie, is reaching out to successful business leaders who fought with everything they had for 8 years of Obama’s disastrous economic policies and regulation – business leaders who not only survived those years, but who are now helping to lead America to new levels of prosperity. Those are the business minds that deserve to be recognized and become Co-Chairmen of the Business Advisory Council.

Who is Dave Bossie?

Dave Bossie – who is also the President of Citizens United – served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign, and was :{named Deputy Executive Director for the Trump Presidential Transition Team. In 2015, Dave was ranked number two in Politico's top 50 most influential people in American politics, and in 2016 was elected to serve as the Republican National Committeeman from Maryland.

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In 2010, under Dave's leadership, Citizens United won a landmark First Amendment decision at the United States Supreme Court (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), which struck down two decades of unconstitutional restrictions on free speech.

As president of Citizens United Productions, Dave has produced 25 documentaries since 2004 with the help of Steve Bannon, Phil Robertson, Michelle Malkin, Senator Rick Santorum, Governor Mike Huckabee, Callista and Newt Gingrich, and the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart.

Dave is also the former Chief Investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. During Bill Clinton's two terms as President, he led investigations ranging from the Whitewater land deal to the transfer of technology to China and to foreign fundraising in the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign.He has also authored four books, including the best-selling Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11.

What is The Presidential Coalition?

The Presidential Coalition exists to educate the American public on the value of having principled conservative Republican leadership at all levels of government and to support the conservative "farm team". From Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush and Donald Trump, principled Republican Presidents have displayed the courage and wisdom necessary to guide our nation through some of our greatest and most difficult times. Their leadership has stood the test of time and made America great. These principled Republicans are the ideal role models for America's future leaders at the state and local levels of government.

What is the Conservative Farm Team?

Since 2005, The Presidential Coalition has been dedicated to identifying and supporting conservative candidates running for office at the state and local levels of government. Many of today's up and coming grassroots conservatives will blossom into our national leaders of tomorrow. They represent the next generation, the conservative farm team, and it is critically important that they receive early support.

Our most glowing examples of success are the cases of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh in Maryland.

Not everyone is focused on these state and local races, as many groups tend to concentrate on high profile federal elections, but we at The Presidential Coalition take great pride in our work to seek out the courageous conservatives putting their names on the ballot in the races that few are covering. These men and women are in the trenches running for the right reasons. They care deeply about their country, their children and grandchildren's future, and fighting for the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution that we all hold dear.

Giving support to these candidates inspires them to forge on when the going gets tough. Our support lets them know someone out there is watching them and appreciates the hard work they are doing day in and day out for the conservative movement – even when it seems like no one is paying attention to all the handshaking and door knocking.

That's why The Presidential Coalition's work is unique. We're not like everybody else – only focused on the elections that the cable news is constantly reporting on – we're interested in finding the diamonds in the rough who get little media attention, but will be the conservative leaders of tomorrow.

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David Bossie apologizes for 'cotton-picking mind' comment to black panelist

By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS 06/24/2018 02:59 PM EDT Updated 06/24/2018 03:46 PM EDT

Former top Trump campaign official David Bossie apologized on Sunday after telling a fellow Fox News panelist who is black that he was out of his "cotton-picking mind" during a discussion about the bellicose rhetoric in U.S. politics.

"During a heated segment on Fox & Friends today, I should have chosen my words more carefully and never used the offensive phrase that I did," Bossie wrote on Twitter. "I apologize to Joel Payne, Fox News and its viewers."

Bossie — who served as a deputy campaign manager and is still close to the White House, joining President Donald Trump for events in Nevada on Saturday — grew increasingly agitated during the Sunday morning segment, which included discussion of Democrats and others who have described the Trump administration's policy toward separating families that cross the border illegally as akin to Nazi actions during the Holocaust.

"Michael Hayden posted a picture of Auschwitz," Bossie said of the former director of the National Security Agency and frequent Trump critic.

Joel Payne, a former aide to then-Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and other top Hill Democrats, interjected as Bossie appeared ready to list others who had made similar comparisons, causing Bossie to exclaim, "You're out of your cotton-picking mind."

"Cotton-picking mind?" Payne responded. "Brother, let me tell you something, I've got some relatives who picked cotton."

The Oxford English Dictionary describes "cotton-picking" as an expression used for emphasis, though it's considered an offensive one, given the racial connotations and connection to slavery. The NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder suspended a play-by-play announcer earlier this year for using the phrase in connection with player Russell Westbrook.

A Fox News spokesperson distanced the network from Bossie's words, saying his use of the phrase was "wholly inappropriate."

"David Bossie’s comments today were deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate," the spokesperson said in a statement. "His remarks do not reflect the sentiments of FOX News and we do not in any way condone them."

Fox News chief national correspondent Ed Henry, who was anchoring the segment, also addressed Bossie's comments shortly after he made them. Henry said the phrase was "obviously offensive."

"David Bossie used a phrase that clearly offended Joel Payne, and it offended many others," Henry said. "I don’t know what David meant by it. It went back and forth between the two of them. I’ve known David a long time, I’ll let him address exactly what he said, but I want to make clear Fox News and this show, myself, we don’t agree with that particular phrase."

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David Bossie: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

By Ryan O'Connell

Published Jun 1, 2017

Bossie speaks at the Iowa Freedom Summit on January, 2015 (Getty)]

Amidst the mounting allegations that Russia was somehow involved with his campaign and victory, President Donald Trump is gearing up to mount a counter attack. Trump is reportedly assembling a “war room,” meant to defend the embattled president and push back against the seemingly never-ending allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. And it’s not just going to be any war room mind you. Trump is stacking the deck.

Among those rumored to be involved is David Bossie, a long-time Republican operative and former deputy campaign manager for the Trump campaign. Bossie made a name for himself during 1990’s, when he was a dogged investigator of alleged wrong-doings committed by then President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. He parlayed his notoriety and fame into the role of president of the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United, where he has written books and produced documentaries about the Clintons, among other subjects.

Since working on the Trump campaign and assisting with the transition, Bossie has been working as a contributor to Fox News, where he recently blasted the media for it’s treatment of Trump, saying that “no president has ever seen a permanent obstruction campaign like President Trump.” Regardless of the situation, any good war room needs loyalty like that.

Here’s what you need to know about David Bossie.

1. Bossie, a College Drop-out, Got Started in Politics Working for Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Campaign

President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in November 1984 (Getty)

Bossie was born on November 1, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of his parents’ four children. His father was an X-ray technician and his mother was a nurse. In addition to living in Boston, the family lived in Connecticut and Michigan before ending up in Maryland. Bossie first attended Towson University in Towson, Maryland and then the University of Maryland. He dropped out without earning a degree.

At 18, Bossie got his first taste of politics, working as a volunteer for President Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign.He then joined the College Republicans, worked in local Maryland elections and eventually became the youth organizer in Maryland for Senator Bob Dole when the Senator ran for president in 1988. The next few years were spent working and networking, with Bossie eventually ending up at Citizens United in 1991.

Bossie was a volunteer firefighter in Montgomery County, Maryland for twenty years. He is married to Susan Bossie. The couple have four children.

2. Bossie Began Working With Notorious Republican Operative Floyd Brown in the Early 90’s

Bossie met Floyd Brown, a Republican operative, when both men were working on the Dole campaign. Brown was behind the now infamous “Willie Horton” ad, an ad which helped torpedo the campaign of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for president in 1988. Brown would go on to become the founder of Citizens United.

Brown and Bossie became a formidable and dangerous duo during the 1992 Presidential election. Bossie was tasked with investigating rumors about the sex life of Bill Clinton, the Arkansas Governor and Democratic nominee. One of their projects involved a phone line that allowed callers who were interested to call in and for only $4.99, could learn more about Clinton’s alleged sexual misconduct and history. If someone was really interested, they could even listen to sex tapes between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. Clinton’s opponent in the race, President George H.W. Bush, was appalled, saying it was “the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process.”

Gennifer Flowers in 1992 (Getty)

Bossie would go on to make a name for himself shortly after, when he was tasked by Brown to get to the bottom of the death of Susan Coleman. Coleman was a law student who had committed suicide. Brown and Bossie, among others, believed that the reason for the young woman’s suicide was that she had had an affair with Clinton, her law professor, and that Clinton had gotten her pregnant. The “investigation” received national attention when CBS Evening News filed a report in July of 1992, detailing how Bossie and Jim Murphy, a retired Washington D.C. police officer, followed Coleman’s mother as she went to visit her husband, who was recovering from a stroke at an Augusta, Georgia Army hospital.

“Here the two men burst into the sick man’s room,” CBS Correspondent Eric Engberg reported, “and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter’s suicide.”

The Bush campaign demanded that Brown stop and the Coleman’s denied that their daughter’s suicide had anything to do with a supposed love affair with Clinton. Bossie later said that the report made his grandmother cry. Brown was unfazed however.

  1. Bossie Has Been Investigating the Clintons for Three Decades

Bill & Hillary Clinton, February 1992 (Getty)

Despite their best efforts, Bossie and Brown were unable to stop Bill Clinton from being elected President in 1991. The victory didn’t slow the two men down though, and if anything, they became more determined to bring down the Clintons.

In 1995 Bossie was hired by North Carolina Senator Lauch Faircloth, who was on the committee investigating Whitewater, an investigation pertaining to the Clinton’s involvement with a land purchase back in 1978. The following year Republicans launched another investigation, this one focused on the Clinton campaign’s fundraising practices. Bossie was brought on to be the investigation’s lead investigator by Republican Congressman Dan Burton, the head of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.

Bossie would only last 18 months before he was forced to resign. Numerous elected officials took issue with Bossie’s methods, specifically his selective and deceitful editing of recorded conversations between law officials and Webb Hubbell, a Clinton associate who was in jail for stealing from both clients and his law firm. Bossie had chopped up over 150 hours of tape into one neat hour and then shared it liberally with the media. Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House at the time, called Bossie “an embarrassment to the Republicans.”

Years later Bossie is still hunting for dirt on the Clintons. Since January of 2016, he has been routinely suing the State Department, seeking access to emails, agendas and travel manifests from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State.

4. Bossie Became the President of Citizens United in 2001

In 2000 Brown left the organization he had created and Bossie became president of Citizens United in 2001. Under Bossie, the organization started focusing more of their attention to producing media, mainly documentaries and books. Since 2004, Citizens United Productions has produced over 25 documentaries. In 2012 they produced Occupy Unmasked, a documentary looking to poke holes in theOccupy movement that was written and directed by current White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

Citizens United Productions biggest “hit” was Hillary: the Movie, released in 2008. The attack ad disguised as a documentary was meant to derail Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and the film was going to be made available via On Demand in the days leading up to the Democratic primaries in January 2008. However, doing so was considered illegal under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and was strongly enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC.) Citizens United took the FEC to court, only to be denied by a three judge panel. Not to be deterred, their next move was to file an appeal with the United States Supreme Court, which they did in August 2008.

Oral arguments in the case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, began in March 2009 and in January 2010 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that spending limits included in BCRA were unconstitutional. The ruling opened the door to significantly looser campaign finance laws and the idea that “corporations were people” too.

Bossie and Citizens United have taken their fight to print as well. Bossie has authored several books since 2004, most of which are about his favorite subject, the Clintons. In 2004 Bossie wrote Intelligence Failure: How Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 and in 2008 he wrote Hillary: the Politics of Personal Destruction. Bossie has also written books about Al Gore, John Kerry and Ronald Reagan.

5. Bossie’s Relationship With Trump Dates Back to the Citizens United Case

The relationship between Bossie and President Trump began around the time of Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission. Trump was reportedly very interested in the case and was told about Bossie by a fellow casino magnate, Steve Wynn. Trump was mulling a run for president in 2012 and Bossie piqued his interest.

When Trump did run for president four years later, he remained in contact with Bossie, and in September of 2016, made Bossie’s involvement in the Trump campaign official, naming him deputy campaign manager. Trump himself asked Bossie to join the campaign, tasking him with running the day-to-day operations and field operations, in addition to participate in debate prep, jobs that had become neglected by campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, as her media availability had started to take precedent.

In announcing the hiring of Bossie, Trump referred to him as “a friend of mine for many years,” saying that Bossie was “solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how to win.”

Following Trump’s win in November 2016 Bossie played an active role in the presidential transition, acting as the deputy executive director. This was followed up by helping to start America First Policies, a non-profit aimed at helping further the new president’s agenda. Yet when it came to officially staffing the White House, Bossie was a noticeable omission.

Undeterred as usual, Bossie moved on and with Reince Priebus being named Chief of Staff, Bossie had his eye on Chairman of the Republican National Committee position. That didn’t come to fruition either though, as one RNC source said that “leaders had been wary from the get-go of his (Bossie’s) combative, brash style.” Bossie eventually ended up at Fox News, but is reportedly still in regular contact with the president, mainly when it comes to media matters and messaging.

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, theMercers were big backers of Trump. They were originally behind Cruz, but once he fell, they got behind Trump right away, in a way that a lot of other wealthy Republicans were loath to do, giving him money, setting up a super PAC. But Rebekah Mercer, the daughter, who is very aggressive in getting involved in the candidates and causes she backs—I have a scene in the book where she flies out to a Trump fundraiser in Long Island, demands a meeting with Trump—and you can do that if you’ve given him millions and millions of dollars, as the Mercers have—and says, "Look, you’re losing. You’re going to lose this election unless you make a change." And Trump says, "Well, yeah, things aren’t going real well, but..." Andshe says, "No, you’re losing. And the only way you’re going to win is if you have a radical change. I have a team of people that I think ought to take over your campaign"—Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and, later, David Bossie, all of them veteran Clinton activists. And Trump, who was frustrated with his current campaign manager, Paul Manafort, agrees and says, "OK, let’s put them in charge. We need somebody who can hit harder."

Bannon is this famously aggressive Breitbart News publisher who would not be held back, has the same instincts as Trump. And people didn’t know it at the time, but Trump had known Bannon for a long time. And lo and behold, we wake up, I think on a Wednesday morning, to this announcement that Steve Bannon, despised by just about everybody in Washington, is now in charge of Trump’s presidential campaign.

AMY GOODMAN: And Paul Manafort is out, something he was resisting, and Jared Kushner played a role in that.

JOSHUA GREEN: Well, it’s funny. Paul Manafort wasn’t out, originally. And what Trump did was he hired Bannon, I think on a Sunday night, without telling Paul Manafort or anybody else. And there’s a scene in the book, where it’s on a Sunday, and Trump tells Bannon, "OK, you’re in. Drive out to my country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, tomorrow. We’re going to have a senior staff meeting," with Giuliani and Chris Christie and Manafort and all the kind of campaign brain trust. Kushner actually wasn’t there, because he was off yachting in Croatia with David Geffen, so he wasn’t present for that meeting. But at the meeting, Manafort, who still thinks he’s in charge of the campaign, walks into a room and sees Steve Bannon there. And Bannon says, "Hey, I’m kind of joining the campaign."

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http://www.salon.com/2017/05/23/frontlines-bannons-war-an-efficient-examination-of-the-philosophy-steering-the-white-house/

bossie plugged bannon into network? mercer?

As chaos swirls around President Donald Trump and his administration, FRONTLINE tonight will premiere ***Bannon’s War*** — an in-depth look at controversial Trump strategist Stephen Bannon, who has long made it clear that upending the political establishment is his goal.

clash of civ started in usn

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voter suppression nevada lost in ct?

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Although the Mercers had initially been persuaded to back Texas senator Ted Cruz in the Republican primary, Bannon preferred Trump, and by the time of the Republican National Convention the Mercers were with him. Rebekah made her move last August, at a fundraiser at theEast Hampton estate of Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets. According to two sources, one who strategized with the Mercers and another who worked closely with Trump, Rebekah insisted on a 30-minute face-to-face meeting with Trump, in which she informed him that his campaign was a disaster. (Her family had pledged $2 million to the effort about a month earlier, so she felt comfortable being frank.) Trump, who knew her slightly, was willing to listen. He had been disturbed by recent stories detailing disorganization in his campaign and alleging ties between Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and pro-Russia officials in Ukraine. Rebekah knew of this and arrived at her meeting with “props,” says the source who strategized with the Mercers: printouts of news articles about Manafort and Russiathat she brandished as evidence that he had to go. And she also had a solution in mind:Trump should put Bannon in charge of the campaign and hire the pollster Kellyanne Conway.[3]

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One of the great challenges in reporting this story was that almostevery single person in Trump’s orbit claims sole credit for his extraordinary victory on November 8. The multiplying narratives of his win can be difficult to untangle, but it is true that his operation ran somewhat more smoothly after Rebekah Mercer helped to replace Manafort with Bannon. This wasn’t necessarily becauseBannon himself was a particularly deft manager—he much preferred to focus on big-picture strategy, especially Trump’s messaging in rallies.Most of the details were left to his deputy, David Bossie—at least until October, when Bossie and Trump got into an argument over Trump’s impetuousness on Twitter and Bossie was kicked off the campaign plane, according to multiple sources. But one undeniable benefit of having Bannon in charge was that Rebekah trusted him.

Conway had worked for the Mercers' super PAC.

By the following morning, Rebekah was breakfasting at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the two people he trusts most, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to talk through the proposal in more detail. Within four days, Trump did exactly as Rebekah had advised. Manafort was out. Bannon was in charge. Trump also brought on David Bossie, the president of Citizens United,with whom the Mercers and Bannon had been close for years. Less than four months later, Mercer's handpicked team had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in American politics. Through a bizarre combination of daring and luck, the insurgents had won. Now, they were Trump’s version of the establishment—which is to say, a very volatile one.

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BOSSIE

Did not graduate from college (dropped Towson, but amalgamated into state system[but was member ofcollege republicans?]), youth organizer for several GOP presidential candidates

{  # During the 1992 presidential campaign, Bossie got into a fistfight with a Little Rock, Ark., private investigator, Larry Case, who said he had damaging information on Clinton. Bossie told police that Case had punched him after Bossie refused to pay Case a $10,000 advance as they were preparing to board a flight at Little Rock National Airport.

# That same year, Bossie set out to prove that a young pregnant woman named Susan Coleman had committed suicide in 1977 after having an affair with Clinton. Coleman's mother told CBS that Bossie hounded her relentlessly with his false story, even following her to an Army hospital in Georgia, where she was visiting her husband, in recovery from a stroke. Bossie and another man "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide," CBS reported.

# Also in 1992, President George H.W. Bush, repudiating Bossie's tactics, filed an FEC complaint against Bossie's group after it produced a TV ad inviting voters to call a hotline to hear (almost certainly doctored) tape-recorded conversations between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers.

# In 1994, Bossie traveled to Fayetteville, Ark., with an NBC producer, where the two allegedly "stalked" and "ambushed" Beverly Bassett Schaffer, a former state regulatory officer and a lawyer who had played a small role in the so-called Whitewater conspiracy. The two confronted Schaffer outside her office and, after she refused an on-camera interview, reportedly chased her across town,until she found refuge in the lobby of an office building.

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{... When the Clintons exited the White House, Bossie seemed rudderless as he jumped from one political target to the next. During the 2000 presidential campaign he coauthored another quickie attack book, "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore," but it didn't seem to play much of a role in the disputed election. During the summer of 2001, Bossie played the Gary Condit game, going on cable TV to tie the Democratic congressman to a dead intern. ("Gary Condit doesn't have much credibility left," Bossie said.) No evidence linking Condit to the murder ever emerged, and he was never charged. The next year, when the Enron scandalbroke, Bossie appeared on Fox News and repeated GOP talking points that both political parties deserved blame because, after all, Enron's former CEO, Kenneth Lay, slept in the Lincoln bedroom once while Clinton was in office. But that in fact never happened. Also that year, Bossie appeared on TNN'S late-night show, "Conspiracy Zone With Kevin Nealon," where he dissected, yet again, the supposed mysteries surrounding the suicide of Clinton aide Foster. Plus, Bossie guaranteed that Sen. Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2004.}:

Even more of an accident, as he LOST suit against FEC on Moore F911 movie, which gave him idea for loophole.  He made a movie just to have something to advertise?

["accidental filmmaker"

"David Bossie, a veteran conservative operative and self-described 'accidental filmmaker,' provided one of the event's most memorable offerings" at the November 10, 2006, weekend Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood,Max Blumenthal wrote November 16, 2006, in The Nation.[[27]](http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_N._Bossie#cite_note-27)

In 1998, Bossie was "fired from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight" after being "caught selectively editing tapes of former Clinton Administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations in a false effort to implicate Hillary Clinton for overbilling his law firm. ... Now Bossie has begun applying his tape-doctoring skills to film, installing editing equipment in the basement of Citizens United's offices and funneling millions of dollars from his group's coffers into producing full-length 'documentaries'," Blumenthal wrote.[[28]](http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_N._Bossie#cite_note-28)

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Citizens United Productions, headed by president David Bossie, has released 14 feature-length documentariesand will release three more films in Fall 2010. The following is a list of films produced by Citizens United Productions.

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ACLU: At War with America IRONY

Blocking 'The Path to 9/11'

Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration

Broken Promises: The UN at 60

Celsius 41.11  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/movies/lowering-the-subtlety-of-political-discourse.html?_r=0

Hillary: The Movie

HYPE: The Obama Effect

Perfect Valor [In 2004, coalition forces in Iraq launched Operation Phantom Fury, the battle for control of Fallujah. This is the amazing documentary that tells the story like only Citizens United Productions can.]

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Rediscovering God in America

Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage

Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny

We Have the Power: Making America Energy Independent

Generation Zero

9 Days That Changed the World

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The American Sovereignty Project is the grassroots lobbying arm of Citizens United, focused on issues related to American sovereignty and national security. Its goals include a complete withdrawal from the United Nations, defeat of the treaty establishing a permanent International Criminal Court, and "rejection of one-world government".[1]

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from? who? matt rhoades

tabloid NY post ed slime ed

https://nypost.com/**2016/11/17**/how-mitt-romneys-campaign-manager-took-down-hillary/

https://nypost.com/2016/11/17/how-mitt-romneys-campaign-manager-took-down-hillary/

ny post victory lap bs

The Clinton family foundation turned out to be a liability for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But it wasn’t foreordained. Here’s how it happened.

After serving as Mitt Romney’s campaign manager in 2012, I formed an outside political group called America Rising tasked with doing opposition research on Clinton. She left the State Department in 2013 with sky-high favorable ratings, but we knew that popularity (which might soon doom any 2016 GOP nominee) was the result of a general lack of scrutiny in the previous four years.

When we first started talking to reporters about the Clintons’ vulnerabilities, to their credit, they were almost always interested in the Clinton Foundation. Already, there were suspicions about the foundation unethically blurring the lines and bending the rules. The organization represented the intersection of politics and money, the favorite topic of any good political reporter.

In August 2013, the New York Post broke a story showing the Clinton Foundation had spent $50 million on private travel. Former President Bill Clinton had apparently become addicted to private jets. The general election was still more than three years away, and already the Clinton Foundation was transforming from a well-meaning charity to a private slush fund enriching the Clintons, making a mockery of Hillary’s claim the next year that her family was “dead broke.”

Uncovering this information was a challenge. Despite its lofty campaign promises about transparency, the Obama administration refused to cooperate with many of America Rising’s Freedom of Information Act requests.

Enter the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, whose president, Dave Bossie,went on to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy campaign manager. When our public-record requests for Clinton’s State Department correspondence were denied, Bossie took legal action, arguing that the public had a right to see this information.

The courts agreed, and the State Department started complying with the requests.We immediately understood why the Clinton forces took such pains to keep the correspondence from seeing the light of day. One email chain showed Bill Clinton seeking permission from his wife to give a paid speech to the leaders of North Korea and Congo for a whopping $650,000 fee that would be donated to the Clinton Foundation. Another email showed a major foundation donor with no national-security experience getting appointed to a highly sensitive government intelligence board.

As the emails dripped out, it became clear the Clintons were using their foundation to keep big financial supporters in place while laying the groundwork for her 2016 campaign.

Secretary Clinton’s painstaking efforts to conceal this information from the American public led her to conduct all her business on a private email server. In another twist of irony, her attempts to avoid public scrutiny caused the exact opposite and the national scandal she couldn’t shake....

ecretary Clinton’s painstaking efforts to conceal this information from the American public led her to conduct all her business on a private email server. In another twist of irony, her attempts to avoid public scrutiny caused the exact opposite and the national scandal she couldn’t shake.

The last few days of Clinton’s campaign against GOP nominee Trump were marked by a slew of negative headlines, including a new FBI investigation partially induced by the Clinton Foundation. Onetime Clinton loyalists were caught accusing Chelsea Clinton of using foundation funds to pay for her own wedding. Another damaging memo surfaced from a key Clinton confidante about the convergence of Bill Clinton’s business activities and the foundation’s fundraising goals, even using the term “Clinton Inc.”

On Election Day, 54 percent of the American public had an unfavorable view of Secretary Clinton. All of her scandals and controversies fell neatly into the buckets of untrustworthy, unethical and failed leadership we had been driving. The voters did the rest.

Matt Rhoades was the campaign manager for Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and founded the GOP super PAC America Rising and Definers Public Affairs

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note no evidence

Bill Clinton’s foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003, an analysis of the non-profit’s tax forms reveal.

The web of foundations run by the former president spent an eye-opening $12.1 million on travel in 2011 alone, according to an internal audit conducted by foundation accountants. That’s enough to by 12,000 air tickets costing $1,000 each, or 33 air tickets each day of the year.

That overall figure includes travel costs for the William J. Clinton Foundation (to which Hillary and Chelsea are now attached) of $4.2 million on travel in 2011, the most recent year where figures are available.

The Clinton Global Health Initiative spent another $730,000 on travel, while the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI) spent $7.2 million on travel.

CHAI also spent $2.9 million on meetings and training, according to the report, conducted by the Little Rock, Ark. Accounting firm BDK CPA’s and Advisors. All three entities have global reach, while CHAI has the most staff.

It’s impossible to discern from tax filings how the total travel costs were reached, although the former president is known to rack up his personal miles on private jets.

Wealthy businessman John Catsimatitis has lent aircraft to Clinton and to the foundation multiple times for travel, including Clinton’s recent trip to Africa along with daughter, Chelsea.

Clinton sometimes uses Catsimatitis’ Boeing 727, opting on other flights to use a smaller Gulfstream jet.

“I don’t think it’s necessarily their go-to plane, because the 727 is a pretty big plane. It all depends where they’re going and what they’re doing,” said a Catsimatitis spokesman.

Sometimes Clinton uses the plane at a discount rate for the foundation, and sometimes Catsimatitis donates the flight time to the charitable foundation, which has a variety of programs to improve global health and improve conditions in Haiti and other far-flung locales.

According to previously undisclosed data provided by the Clinton Foundation,presidential trips accounted for 13 percent of the 2010 travel budget and 10 percent of the 2011 travel budget.

That puts Bill Clinton’s single-year travel tab for 2011 at more than $1 million. A foundation official wouldn’t say how many presidential trips occurred in that time frame.

The remaining travel paid for an array of foundation travel, with nearly 60 percent soaked up by the health access initiative, and about 5 percent going to the Clinton global health initiative, including flying students to attend Clinton Global Initiative University.

A Climate Change Initiative took up 12 percent of travel in 2010 and 11 percent in 2011, although the program accounts for a much smaller fraction of foundation revenues. A foundation official said that’s because the program employs many overseas staff and domestic staff doing transcontinental travel.

Clinton made reference to foundation overhead in an “open letter” posted on his foundation’s web site – mentioning an outside review that called for “stronger management staff” and blaming his own efforts to keep costs down.

“The review told us that my passion to keepoverhead costs down – at about a low 8 percent for most of the last decade, rising only to above 11 percent in 2012 as we invested to support our growth – had gone on too long and that the Foundation needed better coordination without dampening the entrepreneurial spirit that infuses all our initiatives,” he wrote.

The sky-high travel costs come after a report revealed some of the foundation’s high-flying ways, including letting actress Natalie Portman fly first class with her pooch to a foundation event.[note limosine liberal anti pampered woman scam]

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-transition-power-structure-231260

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Sep 1, 2016 - "A friend of mine for many years," Trump said, speaking from his office in New York. "Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how to win." Bossie ...

Donald Trumps's Latest Hire: A Career Clinton-Hater - The Atlantic

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David Bossie - Wikipedia

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Political party‎: ‎Republican

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Board member of‎: ‎Citizens United

The Trump Campaign Just Hired a Notorious Clinton Antagonist ...

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Donald Trump Hires David Bossie To Build Turnout Machine - Breitbart

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Trump's new hire David Bossie has decades-long history attacking ...

https://XXX.theguardian.com › US News › Donald Trump

Sep 3, 2016 - Donald Trump recently announced David Bossie as his deputy campaign manager. Photograph: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons.

Meet David Bossie, Donald Trump's New Master of Dirty Tricks

www.thewrap.com/meet-david-bossie-donald-trumps-new-master-of-dirty-tricks/ 

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Media: Meet Donald Trump's New Deputy Campaign Manager ...

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Trump deputy campaign manager calls Clinton 'enabler' of husband's ...

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David Bossie: Trump 'Changed Man' After Months of Campaigning

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Citizens United, a conservative group run by David Bossie, filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission charging that ads for the film [michael moore? f911?]constitute political advertising and thus may not be aired 60 days before an election or 30 days before a party convention. On August 5, the FEC unanimously dismissed the complaint finding no evidence that the movie's ads had broken the law.[8] A further complaint filed in 2005 was also rejected.[9]

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As if Michael Moore and his documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 needed any more publicity, the conservative group Citizens United weighed in just in time to help.

Citizens United has a reputation for being outspoken. Its own ads critical of former President Bill Clinton aired during his recent 60 Minutes interview. Now the group is making news again by calling for government limits on TV and radio ads for Moore's new movie, alleging they are tantamount to campaign ads and should be subject to federal laws on campaign finance.

News of the Citizens United complaint was just part of the controversy over Fahrenheit 9/11, a media storm that helped the film top all other releases at the box office last weekend (and become the most successful documentary ever).

Helping to publicize the film was obviously not part of the motivation for Citizens United. But it's hard to see how the complaint will accomplish much else. Citizens United has two problems here. First, its complaint goes to the Federal Election Commission, which never rushes to judgment. It would be stunning if the FEC ruled one way or another before Election Day. And second, even if lightning struck and Citizens United won a speedy decision, it wouldn't make all that much difference.

To understand why, you have to look at how the First Amendment and campaign finance laws collide. The current law, authored by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), sets new limits on financing political ads on TV and radio. Candidates and party committees cannot run ads financed with corporate or union money; and, at certain key times on the calendar,independent organizations such as Citizens United cannot either.

The ban on corporate or union funding applies toany broadcast ad that identifies a candidate for federal office and airs within 60 days of Election Day, or 30 days of the convention that would nominate that candidate.

Of course, these rules have an exception, for "news articles, editorials and commentary." Not even Congress wants to gag the free press. The question yet to be definitively answered: How far does the media exemption go?

Not far enough to protect the ads for Fahrenheit 9/11, according to David Bossie, president of Citizens United. He says that Moore, his producers or distributors can't advertise after July 30, since the ads — at least those seen so far — refer to a federal candidate: President George W. Bush. And the Republican convention begins Aug. 30. Bossie launched a full frontal assault last week: a complaint to the FEC, a copy to Attorney General John Ashcroft, letters to TV and radio stations around the country — reminding them that they're legally required to keep records of airtime sales for political ads.

This raises a lot of questions that the FEC hasn't even begun to address up to now. For starters: Does Fahrenheit 9/11 qualify for exemption as "commentary"? If so, does the exemption cover ads for the commentary as well? Is the movie the product of a media company? And if it is, does that matter?

Or, as one WNYC listener asked me last week, what if Moore and his people rewrite the ads, so they don't show or refer to President Bush? The listener's suggestion: "Fahrenheit 9/11 — the movie the federal government doesn't want you to see."

Bossie's strategy — at least the legal part of it — rests on the novel idea that the FEC will act quickly and decisively.The idea would be less outlandish if the FEC had not just punted when confronted with essentially the same issue on the same day Bossie filed. Considering whether another documentary filmmaker qualified for the media exemption, the six commissioners (three Republican, three Democratic) agonized, fretted, and then voted to decide later.

Even when the commission eventually decides, it's a good bet that if Moore loses, he'll go to court to challenge the ruling if the election hasn't already happened. And if it's after Election Day, who cares?

But Bossie may have another strategy at work too.Like Moore, he knows how to work the media. In the early 1990s, Bossie was a private investigator in the Whitewater case, equally skilled at finding information and getting it into the political debate. Later, he went to work for the House Government Reform Committee, where he spearheaded the panel's relentless probe of Clinton's campaign fundraising.

More recently, Bossie has handled the FEC issue like a master, starting with a breathless article in a Capitol Hill newspaper, the day before the commission met. The headline: "'Fahrenheit 9/11' ban? Ads for Moore's movie could be stopped on July 30." A ban that soon seems unlikely. But we are going to see many more cases like this. McCain-Feingold significantly changed the way moneyflowsinto the politicalsystem. And with this high-stakes election getting more emotional all the time, more money than ever is pressing to get in.

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Trump just hired an ardent foe of campaign finance regulation: David Bossie, the man who helped open the floodgates for unlimited corporate political spending as the president of Citizens United.

As PFAW vice president Marge Baker said in our press statement:

This is just the latest addition to the mountain of evidence that as president Donald Trump would give free reign to special interests and appoint Supreme Court justices who will protect the privileges of the wealthy and powerful,but not the rights of ordinary people.

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http://www.**sourcewatch.**org/index.php/David_N._Bossie

David N. Bossie, the president of Citizens United and president and manager of The Presidential Coalition, "earned a reputation as a relentless sleuth -- or right-wing hit man, depending on one's political persuasion -- during his years as a high-profile Republican congressional investigator and conservative activist."[1]

Contents

Swiftboating Hillary

Hillary Clinton is "ahead in the polls and on course to become the Democrats' presidential candidate for 2008. So it is no surprise that a right-wing smear campaign is gathering speed to derail Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House," Paul Harris wrote June 17, 2007, for the UK's The Observer. "Conservative groups and political figures are planning a film, books and a concerted media campaign to demonise Clinton, who isalready one of the most polarising figures in American politics.

"Top of the list of projects is a planned movie, being filmed by veteran Republican operator David Bossie.[2] Bossie is raising money for the film through his conservative group Citizens United, which is appealing for video footage, stories about Clinton and money. It plans a release by the end of the year, just as the first primary elections are held in New Hampshire. Bossie is being helped in the project by Dick Morris, a former top Clinton aide who has become a leading Clinton critic," Harris wrote.[3]

"Citizens United and other Republican groups are set to model their anti-Clinton operation on the notorious :{Swift Boat:(style="background-color:#fff200;"):}: campaign that derailed :{John Kerry:(style="background-color:#fff200;"):}:'s 2004 bid for the White House. That aggressive smear campaign focused on Kerry's Vietnam war record and was seen as critical in President George W Bush's election victory. 'The Swift Boat campaign is going to be a direct model. They have openly come out and said that,' said Terry Krepel, editor of Conwebwatch, a website that monitors the output of conservative news media," Harris wrote.

Hillary: The Movie

Bossie's film Hillary: The Movie became a subject of controversy during the 2008 presidential election when Bossie was barred from advertising it. A federal court ruled that "Citizens United could not run ads for its negative film on Hillary Rodham Clinton without disclosing the ad’s donors. The group wants to release and promote 'Hillary: The Movie' to coincide with the dates when many states will hold primary elections, but the court found that in order for the ads to adhere to current campaign finance law, Citizens United would have to disclose who paid for the ads."[4] The group has appealed this case all the way to the Supreme Court. For more information about the legal arguments in that case and its implications for individual rights in a democracy as compared with corporate rights, see Portal:Corporate_Rights

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

In January 2010, the case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in a divided 5-4 vote, held that section 441b of the 2002 McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance law (Bipartisan Campaign Reform) was unconstitutional. The law prohibited corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for "electioneering communication," or for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate.

The ruling effectively protected corporate speech the same as individual speech. The majority’s ruling about corporate electioneering marked a dramatic break from the past. In doing so, the Court rejected a century of previous court decisions that ruled corporate donations can, and should be regulated. In its ruling, the court never explained why corporate identity demands the same treatment as individual identity.[5]

Obsessed with the Clintons

"Through the 1990s, Bossie spent much of his time assembling caches of documents to push his admittedly ideological agenda. He was a ready promoter of stories about President Bill Clinton's sexual and ethical lapses, proved and otherwise."[6]

Note: According to an October 10, 2003, archived version of his Citizens United profile, "Bossie served as president and chief investigator for the Center for Government Integrity, a government watchdog group investigating the then-Clinton Administration."[7]

The Center for Government Integrity is a project of Citizens United and not a separate entity, as the profile indicates.

Center for Government Integrity

The Center for Government Integrity (CGI), affiliated with Citizens United, states that it "conducts research, analyzes issues and provides information to the public on an array of issues relating to ethics in government. CGI and its founder, David N. Bossie, were instrumental in exposing corruption in the Clinton administration and the project continues to work to expose and root-out corruption and abuses of power at all levels of government," the Citizens United website states.[1]

Contents

Solicitations

:{Response Dynamics :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:Inc. is under contract with the Center for Government Integrity and American Sovereignty Action Projects through August 27, 2008.[2]

Mailing lists

The mailing list for CGI was sold to "CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS" by Response Unlimited.[3]

Contact information

1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20003

Phone: 202 547-5420

Toll-Free: 800 362-4788

FAX: 202 547-5421

URL: http://www.citizensunited.org/

Resources and articles

References

↑ Citizens United website.

↑ List of Paid Solicitors for Charitable Organizations, September 1, 2006 through September 1, 2007.

↑ "Usage for CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS," Response Unlimited, 2000-2004.

External articles

David M. Walker, Comptroller of the United States, Plaintiff v. Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States and Chair, National Energy Policy Development Group, Civil Action No. 02-0340 (JDB), United States District Court for the District of Columbia, December 9, 2002; posted online by FindLaw: "The Court has received amicus curiae briefs from the Center for Government Integrity, on behalf of defendant, and from Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, on behalf of plaintiff." re Cheney Energy Task Force

Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, "Legislator drawn into the scandal at UMDNJ. U.S. Attorney looks at Sen. Bryant's job," he Star-Ledger (N.J.), April 7, 2006.

Category: Politics (U.S.)

Note: The same profile states that "After Clinton's election, Bossie wrote investigative pieces for the monthly newsletter, Clinton Watch. It was at this time Bossie began investigating what is now known as 'Whitewater' and provided key information to the FBI and the national television and print media, which led to the appointment of an Independent Counsel."[8]

"Not long into the Clinton Presidency, Citizens United produced the video Clinton Chronicles, based largely on dirt Bossie had been digging in Arkansas. The video, filled with a plethora of factual errors and uncorroborated or disproven rumors, has been almost completely discredited," Dave Gonzo wrote in American Politics Journal May 7, 1998.[9]

Trudy Lieberman wrote in the May/June 1994 issue of Columbia Journalism Review:[10]

"Bossie, the twenty-eight-year-old political director for Citizens United, a conservative Republican operation, runs an information factory whose Whitewater production lines turn out a steady stream of tips, tidbits, documents, factoids, suspicions, and story ideas for the nation's press and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Journalists and Hill Republicans have recycled much of the information provided by Citizens United into stories that have cast a shadow on the Clinton presidency,""Bossie, who says he works sixteen hours a day on Whitewater, earned his Republican stripes as the national youth director in Senator Robert Dole's 1988 presidential campaign, and then moved on during the 1992 Bush campaign to become executive director of the Presidential Victory Committee. His boss, Floyd Brown, worked as Dole's Midwest political director during the 1988 campaign, but is best known for producing the Willie Horton commercial that helped sink the presidential ambitions of Democrat Michael Dukakis."

"Bossie was fired from his job as an investigator working for Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee in 1998"[11] while "investigating Clinton-Gore campaign finances."[12] According to a May 7, 1998, front-page article published by the Washington Post,[13] Bossie was fired "after overseeing the release of recordings of Hillary Rodham Clinton's phone conversations with [imprisoned] Whitewater figure Webster L. Hubbell. The tapes were edited to create the impression that Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at the Arkansas law firm where she and Hubbell worked."[14]

Note: According to an October 10, 2003, archived version of his Citizens United profile, Bossie said that he "was recruited to this position by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and Chairman Burton to investigate then-President Clinton's illegal foreign money entering the United States to influence the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. Bossie managed Burton's transition into the Chairmanship; managed a $10 million annual budget; directed personnel matters; and, supervised a 40-plus person investigative staff."[15]

Note: In their June 18, 2007, piece for Newsweek, Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball noted that "All the digging didn't amount to much: six years after the Clintons left the White House, Burton is a little-heard-from member of the minority party and Hillary Clinton is the front runner to be the Democrats' nominee for president in 2008."[16]

"Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Burton, in response to the controversy, 'I'm embarrassed for you, I'm embarrassed for myself, and I'm embarrassed for the [House Republican] conference at the circus that went on at your committee.'"[17]

The archived October 2003 Citizens United profile also states that, "Prior to serving Chairman Burton, Bossie served in the United States Senate as an investigator for Senator Lauch Faircloth on the Special Committee to investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and related matters, chaired by Senator Alfonse D'Amato [sic]."[18]

"Bossie and his Citizens United gang also made a mark in the 1992 campaign, when it produced an ad featuring Gennifer Flowers and sent out a fund-raising letter that gave the impression it was tied to the official Bush campaign. (The Bush campaign asked the [Federal Election Commission] to shut down Bossie's political action committee.)," David Corn wrote May 7, 1998, for Salon.[19]

Bossie's October 13, 2005, archived version of his Citizens United profile has been substantially webscrubbed, with the greatest mention of his involvement investigating the Clinton administration stated as follows:[20]

"During Bill Clinton's two terms as president, Bossie led investigations ranging from the Whitewater land deal to the illegal foreign money schemes in the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign and the illegal transfer of dual-use technology to China."

More controversy

In a November 2002 Washington Times opinion piece[21], Bossie wrote:

"The Carter-Mondale administration is well-remembered as the most beleaguered period in the 20th century. Every American recalls the days of double-digit inflation, interest rates of 20 percent, double-digit unemployment and gas lines that stretched several city blocks."

According to published statistics, however, the unemployment rate during Carter's tenure never exceeded 7 1/2 percent, although inflation did reach 13 1/2 % in 1980.[22]

In a July 20, 2004, Salon profile of Bossie, Eric Boehlert calls him "a political hit man by trade" and a "renowned Republican dirty trickster"who spent the 1990s "often at the epicenter of churning out stories about President Clinton, deftly feeding the press and Capitol Hill investigators outlandish -- and usually unsubstantiated -- assertions about White House wrongdoing".[23]

The article notes that he returned during 2004 with books and actions aimed at John Kerry and Michael Moore.

According to a July 6, 2002, archived version of his Citizens United profile, Bossie was "State Youth Director for Linda Chavez for U.S. Senate (MD) in 1986; and, the Maryland State Deputy Youth Director for Reagan/Bush re-elect in 1984."[24]

The same 2002 profile states:[25]

"From 1988 to 1990, Bossie was the Director of Programs for the Leadership Institutewhich trains young men and women in campaign technology, student publications and the operations of Congress. Also, Bossie organized, managed and lectured at over 40 seminars per year. ..."Bossie has also been the subject of many newspaper stories, columns, and editorials and made an impact in the Clinton Administration."Bob Novak wrote in the forward to Bossie's book, Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore, 'the pattern of making maximum accusations that sound outrageous to many people but backing them up with fastidious documentation is Bossie's style.' And 'Bossie is an invariably accurate source' and '?accuracy is his watchword.'"James Carville, President Clinton's top political operative, has said, 'Bossie is responsible for the greatest trick in American history, this entire Whitewater thing.'"Don Baer, former Clinton White House Communications Director said, 'Bossie is the absolute epicenter of the obsession with bringing down Bill Clinton.'"Bossie is also a central character in the national bestseller Bloodsport, written by Pullitzer Prize winning author James Stewart. Stewart wrote that Bossie 'was the tireless conservative operative who became a one-man army against the Clintons and even penetrated a network news operation.'"Bossie attended Towson State University and the University of Maryland where he studied Government and Politics."Note: Bossie's most recent Citizens United profile, accessed June 28, 2007, states the following regarding his education: "Born in Boston, Bossie attended the University of Maryland." There is no longer any mention of Towson State University.[26]

"accidental filmmaker"

"David Bossie, a veteran conservative operative and self-described 'accidental filmmaker,' provided one of the event's most memorable offerings" at the November 10, 2006, weekend Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood, Max Blumenthal wrote November 16, 2006, in The Nation.[27]

In 1998, Bossie was "fired from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight" after being "caught selectively editing tapes of former Clinton Administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations in a false effort to implicate Hillary Clinton for overbilling his law firm. ... Now Bossie has begun applying his tape-doctoring skills to film, installing editing equipment in the basement of Citizens United's offices and funneling millions of dollars from his group's coffers into producing full-length 'documentaries'," Blumenthal wrote.[28]

Books

David N. Bossie, Floyd G. Brown, "Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore", Merril Press, June 2000, ISBN 0936783281.

"Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11, WorldNetDaily (WND) Books, May 2004. ISBN: 0785260749

David N. Bossie, "The Many Faces of John Kerry", WND Books, July 2004. ISBN 0785260757

While the author details on the Amazon listing for Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore state Bossie "authored the best selling book, Slick Willie, Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton" the listing of that title only credits Floyd Brown as the author.[1]. A biographical note on the Young America's Foundation website states that Bossie "conducted the research and co-wrote, with Floyd Brown, Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton."[29]

Resources and articles

Related SourceWatch articles

Citizens United

Craig Shirley

Jeff Gerth

The Presidential Coalition

References

↑ Michael A. Fletcher, "Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11'," Washington Post, August 30, 2006.

↑ Hillary: The Movie at HillaryMovie.com.

↑ Paul Harris, "Anti-Hillary dirty tricks war hots up. Republicans use the internet, books and a film to try to derail Clinton's White House campaign," The Observer (UK), June 17, 2007.

↑ "Some Movie Ads Require Disclosure," CQ's MoneyLine, January 15, 2008.

↑ The Daily Star The court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Excerpts of the decision. January 28, 2010

↑ Michael A. Fletcher, "Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11'," Washington Post, August 30, 2006.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003. Note: This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.

↑ Dave "Doctor" Gonzo, "David Bossie, Vast Right-Wing Conspirator of the Week," American Politics Journal, May 7, 1998.

↑ Trudy Lieberman, "Churning Whitewater," CJR (Columbia Journalism Review), May/June 1994. Also archived at FindArticles.com.

↑ "*Washington Post*, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad," Media Matters for America, May 11, 2004.

↑ David Corn, "One-man rumor mill bites the dust," Salon, May 7, 1998.

↑ "*Washington Post*, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad," Media Matters for America, May 11, 2004.

↑ Michael A. Fletcher, "Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11'," Washington Post, August 30, 2006.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.

↑ Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball, "The New War on Hillary," Newsweek (MSNBC), June 18, 2007 (issue).

↑ "*Washington Post*, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad," Media Matters for America, May 11, 2004.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.

↑ David Corn, "One-man rumor mill bites the dust," Salon, May 7, 1998.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; most recent archived version October 13, 2005. This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.

↑ No reference cited. However, the URL http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm was blocked by the site owner. See the discussion on this entry in the *Wikipedia.

↑ "Myth: Carter ruined the economy; Reagan saved it. Fact: The Federal Reserve Board was responsible for the events of the late 70s and 80s," Korpios.org, first archived October 29, 2000.

↑ Eric Boehlert, "You can't teach an old attack dog new tricks", Salon.com, July 20, 2004.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version July 6, 2002. Note: This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.

↑ About staff: David N. Bossie, Citizens United; archived version July 6, 2002.

↑ David Bossie, Citizens United, accessed June 28, 2007.

↑ Max Blumenthal, "Hooray for Right-Wing Hollywood," The Nation, November 16, 2006.

↑ Max Blumenthal, "Hooray for Right-Wing Hollywood," The Nation, November 16, 2006.

↑ Featured Speakers: "David N. Bossie, President, Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation," Young America's Foundation event.

Profiles

"David Bossie", American Review, undated, accessed October 2004.

Guest Info: David Bossie, NewsGuests.com, accessed June 28, 2007.

David Bossie, IMDb.com, accessed June 28, 2007. Note: this profile mirrors Bossie's most recent Citizens United profile.

David Bossie in the Wikipedia.

"MEDIAGATE: The Hyping of Whitewater. An Archive," American Review. Includes article links 1992-1998.

Books about David Bossie

Gene Lyons, "Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater" (Paperback), Franklin Square Press; 1st ed edition July 1996, ISBN-10 1879957523 / ISBN-13 978-1879957527.

Articles by David Bossie

"Fahrenheit 9/11: Thumbs Down: Violates Federal Election Campaign Act", Washington Post, June 25, 2004.

2008

Bill Berkowitz, Anti-Obama Echo Chamber in Full Swing, Inter Press Service, August 20, 2008.

Categories: Politics (U.S.) | Elections (U.S.) | Conservatives | Political dirty tricks | Civil liberties (U.S.) | Needs review

aug 30

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/efforts-amend-constitution-limit-speech-will-fail-citizens-united-president-says

...

They’re wasting a lot of their time and energy, which I love,” Citizens United President David Bossie told CNSNews.com. “I wish them all the best in their efforts. I hope that they work tirelessly to no result, because they want to create incumbent protection programs, which is what McCain-Feingold was, which is what the DISCLOSE ACT is.”

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission lifted restraints on political speech, allowing corporations and unions to spend money on elections as long as they do not donate directly to a candidate’s campaign. The ruling overturned much, but not all, of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act.

Obama and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have led the effort to curtail the impact of the ruling.

Schumer has proposed the DISCLOSE ACT, which would require greater disclosure requirements for anyone contributing money to the election or defeat of a political candidate.

But on Wednesday, during an online chat on the website Reddit, Obama suggested that the Constitution be amended to restrict political donations.

“Money has always been a factor in politics, but we are seeing something new in the no-holds barred flow of seven and eight figure checks, most undisclosed, into super-PACs; they fundamentally threaten to overwhelm the political process over the long run and drown out the voices of ordinary citizens,” the president wrote. “We need to start with passing the Disclose Act that is already written and been sponsored in Congress - to at least force disclosure of who is giving to who. We should also pass legislation prohibiting the bundling of campaign contributions from lobbyists.”

“Over the longer term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't revisit it),” Obama wrote. “Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super-PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change.”

Bossie said the Democrats’ goal is to gain advantage over Republicans:

“Citizens United [decision] leveled the playing field,” Bossie said. “What they loved was, for decades, the unions being able to spend their union members’ money unfettered. They loved to be able to have the George Soroses and the MoveOn.orgs. The second conservatives can do the same thing, they cry their crocodile tears.”

Bossie referenced oral arguments before the high court to demonstrate the dangers of political speech restrictions.

“The most important thing during my case was the government’s admission in the Supreme Court in oral arguments that the logical extension of McCain-Feingold was that if it could ban documentary films, it could ban books,” Bossie said. “That is a dangerous thing.”

The Republicans National Convention adopted a plank in their party platform for the full repeal of the McCain-Feingold law. Though the provision restricting outside groups from spending on elections was struck down in the Citizens United ruling, some of the law’s restrictions -- such as individual contributions limits, disclosure requirements and disclaimer requirements -- still exist.

Bossie called the GOP plank “a great first step.”

“The party must allow your average American to participate in the political process,” Bossie said. “McCain-Feingold criminalizes political speech. That’s all it does. The American people don’t realize just how arduous and rigid the federal election law is. The barriers to entry for your average person, there are criminal penalties for it if you do it wrong. That’s why people need batteries of lawyers and accountants to meet all the regulatory burdens the U.S. government puts on them.”

The Republican platform says, “We oppose any restrictions or conditions that would discourage Americans from exercising their constitutional right to enter the political fray or limit their commitment to their ideals. As a result, we support repeal of the remaining sections of McCain-Feingold, support either raising or repealing contribution limits, and oppose passage of the DISCLOSE Act or any similar legislation designed to vitiate the Supreme Court’s recent decisions protecting political speech in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.”

Citizens United says it is dedicated to restoring government to citizens' control. “Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security,” its website says.

dailybeast:

David Bossie, the group’s president, had been impressed by Michael Moore’s 2004 anti-Bush polemic, *Fahrenheit 911*—not only by the film’s commercial success, but by the impact of the advertising campaign promoting the film. Bossie considered Moore’s ads by far the best political spots of the 2004 cycle, and he decided to transform Citizens United into a political production company. He’d make conservative films targeting liberal candidates, perhaps making some money through the sale of DVDs. But his larger purpose was to use the advertisements for his films as political weapons, exempt (he hoped) from the restrictions of campaign-finance laws because they were in support of a commercial product.

Bill Berkowitz, Anti-Obama Echo Chamber in Full Swing, Inter Press Service, August 20, 2008.

Bill Berkowitz* 2008

OAKLAND, California, Aug 20 2008 (IPS) - Right-wing groups are stepping up their campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, with two new books on the best-seller lists, another on the verge of publication, and a full-length documentary that will premiere during the party conventions later this month.

Jerome Corsi, a veteran of the 2004 Swiftboating campaign that helped sink the candidacy of the Democratic Party’s John Kerry, had his book “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality” debut at No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list on Sunday. Aug. 17 – although the list’s editors noted that some bookstores have reported receiving bulk orders.

“The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate” by David Freddoso is currently ranked at number five. And another Obama-bashing tome, expected sometime next month, is tentatively titled “Obama Unmasked,” and is written by Floyd Brown – the creator of 1988′s infamous Willie Horton television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on the presidential hopes of the Democrat’s Michael Dukakis.

Now, on Aug. 24, the eve of the Democratic Party’s convention in Denver, “Hype: The Obama Effect” – a full-length documentary that attacks everything about the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee – will be premiering at the Regal Pavilions 15 in the host city. The free showing is being sponsored by Citizens United and Chairman Dick Wadhams of the Colorado Republican Committee.

(The Regal Entertainment Group, which own Regal theaters, is the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world – it operates nearly 20 percent of all indoor screens in the U.S. The chain is owned by Philip Anschutz, an oil magnate, media mogul, and long-time contributor to conservative political causes.)

The film, through interviews with a host of Republican Party supporters, criticises Obama’s political positions, mocks the so-called cult of personality that many critics claim embodies his campaign, casts doubts about his judgment, and questions his character.

“While ‘Hype’ may not generate large box office receipts, it is sure to become another prong in the right-wing attack machine,” Mike Reynolds, a longtime investigative reporter covering politics and religion, told IPS. “[Citizens United head David] Bossie might be hopeful that as the campaign moves forward, some right-wing websites might offer the film as a premium as they have for the books.”

“In order to get regular voters to go see the movie, it will have to garner media buzz on the cable television news networks, like the anti-Obama books have,” Reynolds said. “Looking at both the television advertisement for the film and its five-minute trailer, it’s clear that neither Bossie nor Alan Peterson, the film’s director, have chops; they’re no Michael Moore.”

During the 2004 presidential campaign, one of the earliest attacks against the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Senator John Kerry – predating by several months the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth mega-attack on the candidate’s military record – was spearheaded byFloyd Brown’s group, Citizens United,a long-time conservative enterprise.

The ad became one of George W. Bush’s major themes: Based on Mastercard’s famous ad campaign, the spot cataloged the cost of Kerry’s expensive taste in clothes and his ownership of properties worth millions of dollars. It ended with “Anotherrich liberal elitistfrom Massachusetts who claims he’s a man of the people? Priceless.”

The goal of the Citizens United advertisement was to make Kerry look like an elitist; a premise that Bush advisor Karl Rove and the campaign of the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, has revived again this year. These days, in addition to the Obama-is-an-elitist message, he is also being defined by McCain as an empty suit – a “celebrity” who is out of touch with regular folks.

In June of this year, Rove – now a roving right-wing commentator with the Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream media platforms – pulled the snob card from the deck. Speaking at a country club, Rove likened Obama, to “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

In other words, Obama, the first African American to run for the presidency, is oddly enough being tagged as an elitist who is out of step with the U.S. public.

Bossie, who co-produced “Hype: The Obama Effect”, which was directed and written by Alan Peterson – who also directed “Fahrenhype 9/11,” a response to Michael Moore’s award-winning documentary “Fahrenheit 911″ – recognises that the film will likely have a very limited – if any – run in theaters and he intends to market it via mail-order sales on the Citizen United website, and through other DVD outlets.

“Bossie is a political hatchet man whose career is based on smears and attacking Democrats,” John Stauber,the executive director of the Centre for Media and Democracy, told IPS. “His Obama documentary will provide plenty of footage for use on the internet and in commercials, but I doubt that in and of itself that “Hype” will make much difference in the campaign.”

“I assume that the overall theme of Obama as ‘socialist agent disguised as cult hero’ must be resonating in the political marketing surveys of the Bossie-types and the McCain operatives, or they would switch to something more effective,” Stauber added.

“Going back to the days when he was unremitting in his attacks against Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bossie’s forte has never been accuracy,” Reynolds said. “It has been bloodletting. And in that regard, if ‘Hype’ gets any traction at all, it is likely to be viewed as the political counterpart of [the horror movie franchise] Saw V, due to be released just before the election.”

2014

breitbart BS  who on the rt is threat?

CITIZENS UNITED HEAD DAVID BOSSIE: CONSERVATISM UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN

Earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, David Bossie, the president of Citizens United and a veteran congressional investigator during the Clinton years, did not mince words.

"The conservative movement," he said, "is always under attack from the left. But right now, more importantly, we're under attack from within our coaltion as well."

"The movement is fractured," he said, because groups like the American Conservative Union are "straying from our shared conservative values."

Citing the late William F. Buckley, Jr., who wrote that the conservative movement is "on the side of excellence rather than newness," Bossie asserted that the conservative movement is threatened now because "certain groups are trying to buy their way into [it]."

According to Bossie, the conservative movement "is not part of the Republican Party, whose mission is to elect Republicans." Instead, Bossie said, "our mission is to promote conservative candidates and our core conservative values and principles."

"The [conservative] coalition that men like Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan built stood on three equally important foundations : fiscal conservativism, strong national defense, and a social conservativism that held society should adopt a moral code set down by God, the same God from whom we derive our most important civil rights."

"Conservativism itself cannot stand divided. There are some groups today who want to do just that," Bossie said. But Bossie reminded his audience,"it was the unity of the Reagan Coalition that gave it strength."

Bossie called for a vigorous defense of the conservative movement's core principles. "Some of conservativism's enemies . . . would see social conservatives silenced and driven out of the movement." Others would see both social conservatives and national security supporters driven out. "These forces constantly scold us," he said, "that we shouldn't stand in front of history and yell stop, but rather stand aside and politely wave as history passes by."

"They tell us we shouldn't defend the rights of the unborn . . . [or] the institution of marriage," he added.

Bossie said the forces opposing the historical principles of the conservative movement resort to tactics based on propaganda rather than intellectual honesty. "They call us names. They call us bigots," he said. "They call us intolerant for daring to speak up against the intellectual cliques of the cosmopolitan left."

But Bossie rejected this distortion of the modern conservative movement. "Theirs is a conservative movement that would be enslaved to the moral fallacies and fads... of the moment."

Conservatives, Bossie concluded, should reject this approach because it is "a recipe for a crippled movement, a losing coalition in a failing country."

You can watch Bossie's entire speech here:

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DAVID BOSSIE

Back in the year 2000, colleagues David Bossie and Floyd G. Browncollaborated on a book entitled,“Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore.”There’s little surprise there given the fact that both men are devout climate change deniers and evolution myth theorists.

David Bossie, an acolyte of Ronald Reagan, went to work for Floyd Brown at the Presidential Victory Committee back in 1992. He had already come into prominence, and perhaps flown into Brown’s radar, when he and another colleague attempted to show that Susann Coleman had become impregnated by, and committed suicide, after an affair with her law professor, Bill Clinton.  Interestingly, Bossie was hired by Fred Thompson’s U.S. Senate Investigation of the Whitewater Scandal as a lead investigator, to look into Clinton’s financial abuses.

During the investigation it came to light that Bossie, et. al. had published tapes that had been redacted. Bossie was summarily fired.

Once sitting pretty in Brown’s Citizens United Foundation, and feeling right at home with those of the same mind-set, Bossie began to focus his attention on the Citizens United Productions division. Creating such films as: Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration; Celsius 41.11; Rediscovering God in America, hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich; Hillary: The Movie; and Occupy Unmasked,Bossie and friends were riding high in their saddle as a major righ-ring propaganda mill.

It was, of course, Hillary: The Movie that brought them into the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court of the United States. When they were sued before the film was scheduled to be released in early 2008, the suit also brought with it an injunction. Unfortunately, for Bossie and friends, the appeals court did not hear the case until 2010, and the movie was then untimely. However, the Supreme Court ruling referred to by us today simply as Citizens United, sent an outcry throughout the country which is still reverberating today.

In addition to his office at Citizens United, Bossie is a member of theNational Conservative Campaign Fund, and has served as Director of Programs at the prestigious right-wing Leadership Institute which is home to many of the Christian right politicians.  Additionally, he is listed as the President and Manager of thePresidential Coalition, a Republican front group that is closely affiliated with Citizens United and instrumental in funding state and local candidates – so close, in fact that they share the same address at 1006 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s a cozy relationship.  But, that’s not the only coziness that Bossie enjoys. Sleaze or not, his gallery of running buddies is vast as you can see on the chart below:

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John Bliss has been the CFO for several higher education entities in Colorado including the State Colleges in Colorado, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE), the Colorado State University System, and the University of Colorado System. Mr. Bliss has been involved in many of the major state higher education strategic planning efforts in Colorado between 1979 and 2005 including the planning efforts required in HB85-1187 and the 2002 Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education for the 21st Century.

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richard (Dick) Lee Monfort(Co-Chair)

Dick Monfort earned his BA in Business Management from the University of Northern Colorado in 1976.  In 1981, Mr. Monfort became Group Vice-President of procurement and sales for Monfort of Colorado.  In 1987, Monfort of Colorado was purchased by ConAgra Foods. After the completion of the sale, Mr. Monfort was named President of Monfort, a subsidiary of ConAgra.  After another acquisition by ConAgra, he was named President of ConAgra Red Meats.  In 1995 Dick retired from ConAgra to pursue other businesses.  Those included the Hilltop Steak House in Boston; Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells, California; Montera Cattle Company; and various real estate investments such as the Brett Farve Steak House in Green Bay Wisconsin.

In 1997, Mr. Monfort bought part ownership in the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club and was named Vice Chairman.  Today he, along with his brother Charlie, have controlling interest in the team.  In 1998 and 2004 he was the campaign chair for the United Way of Weld County.  He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Northern Colorado, the Vice Chair of University Hospital in Denver, on the board of directors of the Denver Zoo, Chairman of the Economic Development Commission of Colorado,  and Treasurer of the Monfort Family Foundation, a charitable foundation with annual giving in excess of $4 million per year.

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