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Donald Trump Hires David Bossie as Deputy Campaign Manager
Thursday, September 1, 2016 08:21 PM
By: Ted Johnson
David Bossie, a conservative operative and president of Citizens United, is joining Donald Trump's presidential bid as deputy campaign manager, a spokeswoman for the campaign confirmed.
Trump, in an interview with the Washington Post on Thursday, announced the hire and said that Bossie has been a "friend of mine for many years" and that he was "solid. Smart. Loves politics. Knows how to win."
Bossie gained fame in the '90s when, as a congressional investigator, he probed the financial dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The next decade, he ventured into documentary filmmaking, starting with a response to Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" called "Celsius 41.11." In 2008, he released "Hillary, the Movie," tied to Clinton's presidential bid. But he challenged federal election law guidelines that restricted the movie's marketing, and the litigation made its way to the Supreme Court and ended in their landmark Citizens United ruling in 2010.
Despite the focus of the ruling on its impact on campaign finance, Bossie has defended it as an important victory for the First Amendment.
Bossie produced "Occupy Unmasked," a critical look at the Occupy movement, in 2012 from a screenplay by Stephen Bannon. Trump named Bannon his campaign CEO last month.
Bossie will work with Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager.
Clinton has cited "Hillary, the Movie" in her calls for overturning the Citizens United ruling.
"They took aim at me, but they ended up damaging our entire democracy," Clinton told the Associated Press last year. "We can't let them pull that same trick again."
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