Trump’s Bringing in All the Smear Artists
The big news last evening was that Donald Trump had hired David Bossie, the former head of a political organization called Citizens United (yes that Citizens United) as deputy campaign manager. Beltway reporters seemed surprised by this although they shouldn’t have been. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway had already brought him aboard the Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, when she left to join the campaign and for good reason. He is probably the most vicious Clinton character assassin in America, having been perfecting his craft since the early 1990s. As it happens, I wrote about Bossie a couple of years ago for Salon, just because he’s a Zelig-like character who always seems to turn up when someone needs a hit man. In that piece I quoted liberally from the original reporting by Columbia Journalism Review’s Trudy Lieberman from 1994 that exposed the pathetic eagerness of the political press to gobble up any tid-bit the right offered up as evidence of Clintonian corruption.
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