David Bossie

David Bossie
Bossie at CPAC 2017
Republican National Committeeman
from Maryland
Assumed office
May 14, 2016
Preceded byLouis Pope
Personal details
Born
David Norman Bossie

(1965-11-01) November 1, 1965 (age 58)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseSusan
Children4

David Norman Bossie (born November 1, 1965)[1][2] is an American political activist. Since 2000, he has been president and chairman of conservative advocacy group Citizens United and in 2016, Bossie was the deputy campaign manager to the Donald Trump presidential campaign.[3]

Subsequently, Bossie had a falling out with the Trump campaign and administration in May 2019 after Axios reported that Bossie had been accused by the Internal Revenue Service of defrauding political donors by funneling their donations to himself through consultants and book sales.[4] In January 2020 he returned to prominent association with the Trump administration as a strategic ally to help contest the impeachment of Donald Trump based on his past familiarity with impeachment battles.[5]

In 1992, Bossie joined Citizens United as a researcher, during which time Citizens United produced many films promoting Republican perspectives and talking points. Later in the 1990s, Bossie had a troubled turn as congressional investigator. Bossie was hired by the chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and new Oversight in 1997 as chief investigator to look into possible campaign finance abuses by U.S. President Bill Clinton.[6] In May 1998, bipartisan concern mounted over inappropriate redaction of tapes and transcripts of former U.S. Associate AG Webster Hubbell's prison telephone calls omitting some exculpatory passages. Newt Gingrich pressed for Bossie's resignation which followed shortly thereafter.[7][8]

In 2010, Bossie produced the American documentary film Generation Zero for Citizens United Productions, written and directed by Steve Bannon, which attributes in some measure the origins of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 to moral failings of the Baby Boom generation, in particular their turning away from parental values during the countercultural 1960s.[9][10] Bossie has written several books attacking Democratic rivals, including John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton, as well as a political memoir co-authored with Corey Lewandowski concerning Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign.

In June 2018, Bossie, a regular guest on Fox News programs, made a statement to a fellow guest which was an insult to African-Americans; he later apologized.[11] Fox News suspended him for two weeks, calling the remarks "deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate."[12]

  1. ^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  2. ^ "Q&A with David Bossie". Washington Journal. C-SPAN. February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  3. ^ "David N. Bossie biography". Citizens United. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  4. ^ Orr, Gabby; Lippman, Daniel. "Trump campaign distances itself from David Bossie over alleged scam". Politico. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  5. ^ Kumar, Anita. "A Trump aide returns from exile: The David Bossie saga". Politico. Retrieved October 16, 2020. Dave Bossie not only knows the impeachment process he knows how to fight the impeachment process and that's what makes him a valuable asset to President Trump.
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  7. ^ Alvarez, Lizette (May 11, 1998). "Top Democrat Issues Threat To Head of House Inquiry". The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
  8. ^ Schmitt, Eric (May 10, 1998). "May 3–9; A Top Aide Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2012. Under pressure from Speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican who heads the House Government and Reform Committee, accepted the resignation of the aide, David N. Bossie, a dogged anti-Clinton sleuth.
  9. ^ "Fox Nation Must-See Film: 'Generation Zero'". Fox News. February 24, 2010. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  10. ^ Suebsaeng, Asawin (August 19, 2016). "I Watched All of Steve Bannon's Bad Movies". Daily Beast. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  11. ^ Thomsen, Jacqueline (June 24, 2018). "Ex-Trump adviser tells black Fox News guest he's out of his 'cotton-picking mind'". The Hill. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  12. ^ Fleishman, Glenn (June 25, 2018). "Fox News Contributor Suspended for 'Cotton-Picking' Remark'". Fortune. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

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