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The head of Citizens United joins Trump’s campaign from a pro-Trump super PAC.
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump once denounced his Republican primary opponents as being “totally in cahoots” with the unlimited-money super PACs supporting their campaigns. But that was then, and this is now. This week, Trump announced he hiredthe man whose activism literally led to the creation of super PACs, and whose most recent gig was leading a pro-Trump super PAC.
That man is David Bossie. The longtime head of the conservative nonprofit Citizens United is now Trump’s deputy campaign manager. Yes, that Citizens United.
The conservative nonprofit group filed a lawsuit in 2007 against the Federal Election Commission. The case eventually snowballed into a 2010 Supreme Court decision that legalized unlimited corporate and union spending in elections, so long as it remained independent from candidates and political parties. A subsequent lower court decision based entirely on the Citizens United ruling opened the door to unlimited giving by wealthy individuals and, in turn, the FEC created super PACs to allow for this money to flow.
Trump was once the candidate who denounced big money and declared his independence from donor influence through his self-financing. Now, he’s schmoozing with big donors and asking for their advice as he prods them for money, while employing supporters of further campaign finance deregulation.
“It does paint Donald Trump’s campaign as not being friendly to campaign finance reform,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the pro-campaign finance reform group Public Citizen.
That may be of little surprise, considering the Republican Party platform calls for the elimination of all campaign contribution limits.
Bossie’s move to the Trump campaign also shows how closely linked the latter is to the super PACs supporting it. Prior to joining the official Trump campaign, Bossie was running a pro-Trump super PAC called Make America Number 1.
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This is only the tip of the iceberg about David Bossie. Bossie is a notorious Clinton hater with a history to prove it. Bossie has a really dirty, scummy past.
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Trump enlists veteran operative David Bossie as deputy campaign manager