Douglas Schoen?

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was a senior adviser to Bill Clinton’s 1996 campaign, a White House adviser (1994-2000) and an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign.

I recognized the name and was surprised to see his op-ed in the WSJ smearing Hillary about the Russia investigation. Or whatever it is called.

I just read the first paragraph and the highlights but am still surprised.

Is he now a MAGAtist?

[Skittles]

1. WSJ op-eds are rightwing assholes

so the answer is YES

[question everything]

3. Including our President?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216749925

And a couple of years ago they had op-eds by Sanders and by Sharrod Brown.

[Skittles]

5. they do the same of Fox does

throw a bone occasionally to Dems but certainly the WSJ editorial board is rightwing asshats

[Ocelot II]

2. Your suspicion seems to be correct.

From Wikipedia:

In 1977, he co-founded the political consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland with political strategists Mark Penn. Michael Berland joined the firm in 1987. Schoen worked for the political campaigns of politicians including Jay Rockefeller, Richard Shelby and Evan Bayh. Following the 1994 United States elections, President Bill Clinton hired Dick Morris, who brought on Schoen and Penn. Schoen worked on the 1996 campaign as well in survey analysis. Schoen also began doing corporate work beginning in the 1980s.

In 2000, Ukrainian steel oligarch Victor Pinchuk hired Schoen on a $40,000 per month retainer. In 2004, Schoen introduced Pinchuk to Hillary Clinton. He also did work for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 and later became associated with the People United Means Action movement of disaffected Clinton supporters who refused to support Barack Obama. Schoen was a consultant for Jeff Greene in the 2010 Florida Senate election.

The firm was sold to WPP plc in 2001. Schoen left the firm later to work for news media. In 2010, Schoen hosted a fundraiser for Republican congressional candidate John Gomez.

Pinchuk donated $13.1 million to the Clinton Foundation in the years after Schoen's introduction. In 2011, Schoen registered as a foreign agent lobbying on behalf of Pinchuk. Between September 2011 and November 2012, Schoen arranged nearly a dozen meetings between Pinchuk and senior State Department officials, including Melanne Verveer. In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at a policy conference that year in Kiev. Michael Cohen solicited Schoen for the donation from Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year. In March 2017, former Trump aide Monica Crowley registered as a foreign agent working for Pinchuk under Schoen's direction.

Media
Fox News hired Schoen as a political analyst in 2009 and Newsmax hired Schoen as a columnist. In 2010, he authored a book on the Tea Party movement with Scott Rasmussen. He has been writing a regular column for Forbes magazine beginning in July 2016 with a column "Donald Trump Through The Years".

Newsmax TV announced that Schoen would be leaving Fox News and joining them. On January 19, 2021, Schoen joined Newsmax TV as an Analyst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Schoen

[question everything]

4. Thanks, what a piece of work. And we know who does work for the highest bidders, except not in the

streets but in corner offices.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. He wrote an op-ed before the 2012 election saying that Obama shouldn't run for re-election.

He's been awful for a long time.