David Bossie is now Trump's deputy campaign manager. He has been described as the Inspector Javert or the Captain Ahab of the anti-Clinton forces; perhaps no one has so single-mindedly dedicated his career, over the last 25 years, to taking down the Clintons:
The 50-year-old crusader is, in many ways, an embodiment of the toxic, obsessive, vendetta-driven political spirit that animates Trumpworld.One of Bossie's "claims to fame" is his work on the infamous Willie Horton ad, so effective against Michael Dukakis in 1988. Intent on proving that years before, a young woman named Susan Coleman had committed suicide because she had become pregnant by her law professor, Bill Clinton, he and a sidekick burst into the hospital room where Ms. Coleman's father was recovering from a stroke in order to "question the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide." Bossie later expressed regrets, saying that the story had made his (Bossie's) grandmother cry.
He immersed himself in the expensive and pointless dead end known as Whitewater, and had served 18 months in the position of chief investigator for committee chairman Dan Burton when he "... was forced to resign for questionable tactics. (Specifically, he distributed selectively edited transcripts of investigators’ jailhouse conversations with the Clinton crony Webb Hubbell.) The New York Times reported that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich himself had pressed for Bossie’s ouster because the investigator had 'become an embarrassment to the Republicans.'" Too extreme for Newt Gingrich? That's quite an accomplishment.
Bossie produced the anti-Hillary movie Hillary: The Movie, which was the subject of the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts on political donations.
Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes, David Bossie: quite a crew Trump has surrounded himself with.
0 comments:
Post a Comment