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Judi Lynn

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22. Oh, yes, he is, beyond all doubt. Pure evil.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 06:33 PM
Jun 2018

Here's a supporting article, which only barely scratches the surface:

Meet David Bossie, Donald Trump’s New Master of Dirty Tricks
President George H.W. Bush once accused him of “the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process”

Itay Hod | September 7, 2016 @ 9:46 AM
Last Updated: September 7, 2016 @ 10:44 AM

Bossie did not respond to our requests for comment. But here are seven things to know about Trump’s latest hire:

1. He operated a phone sex line. No, really.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus reports that in 1992, Bossie “worked on an anti-Clinton effort that included a phone line in which callers could pay $4.99 to hear supposed sex tapes between Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers.” According to a 1999 article by PoliticalResearch.org, a non-profit research group, the incident was so “distasteful” the Bush/Quayle campaign was forced to condemn it. The president called it “the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process” right before filing a Federal Election Commission complaint.

2. He once harassed the mother of a woman who committed suicide.
A 1992 CBS News investigative piece called “Dirty Tricks” said Bossie harassed of friends and family of a woman by the name of Susan Coleman. Coleman had committed suicide 15 years earlier while seven months pregnant. Bossie was investigating whether Coleman shot herself after having an affair with her law professor, Bill Clinton, and getting pregnant.


“The family and friends of Susan Coleman have been forced to relive this tragedy as political agents threaten to drag her name through the mud,” the CBS piece said, calling it an “unusually brazen dirty tricks operation run by an independent committee that supports George Bush for president.”

CBS said Bossie and another investigator followed Coleman’s mother to an Army hospital where her husband was being treated for a stroke. “Here the two men burst into the sick man’s room, and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter’s suicide,” the CBS report went on to say.

More:
https://www.thewrap.com/meet-david-bossie-donald-trumps-new-master-of-dirty-tricks/

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It's all out in the open now BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #1
apology not accepted jpak Jun 2018 #2
Nor should it be. He owes all of us a WAY bigger apology than that. calimary Jun 2018 #20
Going from dog whistles to full throated barks. bearsfootball516 Jun 2018 #3
Bossie appears to be from Boston, where I doubt "cotton-picking" is a common phrase flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #4
Ah. It's a common phrase in the South towards anyone of any color catrose Jun 2018 #28
Born and raised in Roxbury, a part of Boston, back in the 40s. Cold War Spook Jun 2018 #36
For the first time since Trump was elected... flotsam Jun 2018 #5
True, it could be a mistake. Why, I remember the last time I said that about someone -- LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2018 #8
I've never even heard a Southerner say that. And that guy was from Massachusetts. flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #16
Ya'll jist wait a gol-dawn-cottin-pickin-minit ThoughtCriminal Jun 2018 #10
GOP turd meant it as a racist insult to the black panelist, no question. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #26
Same here. Raised in south Louisiana. It's an old expression not intended to be racial. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #30
Gay. Grew up in the North. teenagebambam Jun 2018 #27
Yeah, it's an old expression. It's in some books, movies, cartoons. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #31
I'm inclined to say it, now and again. Chemisse Jun 2018 #37
It may have been inadvertent but Payne's reaction belies your assumption Kind of Blue Jun 2018 #33
I've Never Used RobinA Jun 2018 #35
Cold, bold, racist, bigoted. Bossie 'cotton picking,' Lewandowski 'womp, womp' appalachiablue Jun 2018 #6
I just watched the video segment RVN VET71 Jun 2018 #7
Heard it my whole life. Had it tossed at me my whole life too. 7962 Jun 2018 #12
So many intelligent people were able to live their entire lives without saying it, ever. Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #19
Sure. A lot of people also go their entire lives without cursing too. 7962 Jun 2018 #23
+1. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #32
Back in the day when Eney Meney Miney Moe angstlessk Jun 2018 #17
And just because you daddy did it don't make it wrong. Igel Jun 2018 #24
The "catch a bleep by the toes" was wrong I don't care who said it or when RVN VET71 Jun 2018 #39
Inadvertent Trumpdumper Jun 2018 #9
This is my exact experience Momgonepostal Jun 2018 #25
But this was a calculated dog whistle for FOX ears Snellius Jun 2018 #38
My grandparents were itinerant cotton pickers thbobby Jun 2018 #11
If he wasn't a lunatic (dolt45 supporter) I would give him a pass. Scruffy1 Jun 2018 #13
Those subtle race-hate-bait dog whistle words don't go so unheard any more. Snellius Jun 2018 #14
It is crystal clear what he meant. Chrystal clear. TTheStruggleisReal Jun 2018 #15
How could anyone NOT be aware of the connection between cotton and slavery? Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #18
+1000 and thank you for taking the time to compile all that information. Kind of Blue Jun 2018 #34
David Bossie. sandensea Jun 2018 #21
Oh, yes, he is, beyond all doubt. Pure evil. Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #22
From Msnbc Gothmog Jun 2018 #29
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