You’ve likely seen news that Donald Trump has hired David Bossie as his Deputy Campaign Manager. The good news for Democrats on this front is that it’s not clear to me that Bossie has any real experience running campaigns or winning elections, certainly not at the presidential level. What he is is a career ‘investigator’ of the Clintons who’s been the promoter of most of the ugliest, most surreal and unhinged Clinton conspiracy theories. He also has a decent historical role as the head of the plaintiff organization in the Citizens United case. The actual group Citizens United is his group. That was his lawsuit.
In any case, imagine all the worst and most lurid slime that’s been peddled about the Clintons over the last 25 years: Bossie played some key and often the central role in all of it. So you can get a pretty good idea of how the last 60+ days of this campaign goes down. Needless to say, he and Trump seem to get along great.
You can get some flavor of the decision making in this penultimate graf in the Post piece reporting Bossie’s hire.
There had been deliberation both internally and with party leaders about whether to formally bring Bossie into the campaign, with conversations over whether he was right for the high-ranking post and whether his confrontational style would fit.
In other words, did it make sense to have someone that toxic formally tied to the campaign or just sharing dirt from the outside. I guess we have our answer.
