Trump’s Pick To Lead OMB Spoke At John Birch Society Event In July

UNITED STATES – MARCH 27: Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., speaks during the Republican Study Committee news conference to unveil a FY2013 budget proposal on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (... UNITED STATES – MARCH 27: Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., speaks during the Republican Study Committee news conference to unveil a FY2013 budget proposal on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, spoke in July to the John Birch Society, the ultra conservative group known in recent years for pushing conspiracy theories, Mother Jones reported on Monday.

Mulvaney addressed the group’s West Columbia, South Carolina chapter, where he was scheduled to talk about the Federal Reserve. The event was flagged to Mother Jones by the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge.

The congressman defended his decision to speak at the event in July after criticism from state Democrats.

“I regularly speak to groups across the political spectrum because my constituents deserve access to their congressman,” Mulvaney said, according to The State. “I can’t remember ever turning down an opportunity to speak to a group based on the group’s political ideology.”

The Souther Poverty Law Center describes the John Birch Society as a “conspiracist group exiled by the right a half century ago.” The group’s intense opposition to communism has led its members to accuse President Dwight Eisenhower of being a communist and to label the civil rights movement as communism, as Mother Jones noted.

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  1. And that’s three Trump members that are into conspiracy theories,

    Yes

    One of the three is ‘patient x’

  2. So that time when America was so great that we gotta go back there was when the John Birch Society was bigly important?

  3. Half the damn country will be cheering these idiots on and it wouldn’t matter if they were clubbing their husband, raping their wife or selling their children into slavery. A Democrat lost, and savoring that makes anything else that happens worth the trade-off.

  4. Really not getting what the big deal is. Bircherism is mainstream Republican ideology now.

    Now on to really important matters: where’s this guy’s flag pin?

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