David Bossie

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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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="Clines1997" /> 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.<ref name="Alvarez1998">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Schmitt1998">Template:Cite news</ref>

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 2008 financial crisis to moral failings of the Baby Boom generation, in particular their turning away from parental values during the countercultural 1960s.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fox News suspended him for two weeks, calling the remarks "deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Bossie grew up in Massachusetts.<ref name="cspan" /> He attended Towson State University and the University of Maryland, but dropped out before graduation. When he was 18 years old, he volunteered in Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

CareerEdit

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Bossie addressing the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

A volunteer firefighter in his youth, Bossie dropped out of university to pursue politics. Bossie was the youth director of Senator Bob Dole's 1988 presidential campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Congressional investigatorEdit

After the Republicans won control of the United States House of Representatives in the 1994 elections, Dan Burton (R-IN) became chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and new Oversight. In 1997, he hired Bossie as chief investigator to look into possible campaign finance abuses by U.S. President Bill Clinton.<ref name="Clines1997">Template:Cite news</ref>

By May 1998, Burton came under intense partisan pressure; even fellow Republicans complained that committee staff had published redacted tapes and transcripts of former United States Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell's prison telephone calls omitting some exculpatory passages. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pressed Burton to seek Bossie's resignation.<ref name="Alvarez1998" /> Shortly thereafter, Burton accepted Bossie's resignation.<ref name="Schmitt1998" />

Citizens UnitedEdit

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Bossie speaking about Citizens United at the 2013 CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland.

During his tenure at Citizens United, which he had joined as a researcher after Bill Clinton was elected in 1992,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the organization focused increasingly on producing film documentaries through its Citizens United Productions division. Their films have included:

Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration
Celsius 41.11
Rediscovering God in America, hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich
Hillary: The Movie
Occupy Unmasked

Citizens United hoped to begin distribution of the feature film Hillary: The Movie in January or February 2008. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 made that an unlawful electioneering communication.<ref>Template:Cite court</ref> They sued, unsuccessfully, for an injunction to prohibit the Federal Election Commission from enforcement of those provisions of BCRA on First Amendment grounds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In a 2010 landmark decision, the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission for Citizens United. For-profit corporations and not-for-profit corporations may now advertise and broadcast messages of a political nature without limits on how much they can spend and with few limits on the timing and nature of the messages.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Trump presidential campaignsEdit

In September 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump hired Bossie to be his new deputy campaign manager.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In November 2020, following the conclusion of the 2020 presidential election, Trump recruited Bossie again to challenge ballot counting in states with tight margins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On November 9, it was reported that Bossie had tested positive for COVID-19. He had attended Trump's Election Night party, as had others who tested positive around the same time, such as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. At this point, Bossie dropped out of the recount effort.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In February 2022, Bossie "spearheaded" a Republican National Committee resolution to formally censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their perceived disloyalty to Trump.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

PublicationsEdit

Bossie is the author of The Many Faces of John Kerry (Thomas Nelson, 2004), a hostile look at the Democratic nominee in the 2004 United States presidential election, then-Senator John Kerry.<ref name="The Palm Beach Post">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also wrote Intelligence Failure (Thomas Nelson, 2004), a book alleging that failings on the part of the national security apparatus during the Clinton administration led to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<ref name="The Herald-Sun">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bossie authored the "highly partisan" 2008 publication Hillary: the Politics of Personal Destruction, which is credited with delivering, in 2016, an insistent, long-term campaign theme to Trump of "LOCK HER UP!"<ref>Donald Trump and his shady entourage — a brief history" Salon, December 17, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2024.</ref>

At the 2010 Tea Party movement Convention,<ref>Fisher, Max "Tea Party's True Character Revealed at Convention" The Atlantic, February 8, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2024.</ref> Bossie debuted the documentary Generation Zero, focusing on the 2008 financial crisis and insinuating that it was caused by the supposed selfishness of the entire Baby Boomer generation. The documentary, produced by Bossie for Citizens United Productions, had been written and directed by Steve Bannon, and was poorly reviewed by historians as "conceit", "fiction" and "pseudoscience".<ref>Blumenthal, Paul; Rieger, J.M. "Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable" The Huffington Post, February 8, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2024.</ref>

In December 2017, Let Trump Be Trump, a memoir co-authored by Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, was published by Center Street. The book chronicles their experiences working on Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

PersonalEdit

David and his wife Susan reside in Montgomery County, Maryland with their four children. He has been a volunteer firefighter there since 1998.<ref name="C-Span">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bossie received the Ronald Reagan Award from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1999.<ref name="The Dispatch">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also was ranked number two in Politico's top 50 most influential people in American politics in 2015, tied with Charlie Spies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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