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With Jeffrey Epstein dead, David Brock may be the slimiest of the Clinton friends still left standing. Brock started out in conservative politics writing hit pieces about Hillary.
Then he became the craziest Clinton defender around.
Brock claimed that the New York Times was a “megaphone for conservative propaganda”. “As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in hell,” he ranted.
It’s easy to dismiss Brock as a nutjob. There were reports that he feared right-wing snipers were coming after him. But there’s also little doubt that America Bridge and Media Matters, the organizations he created, remains quite influential, that Democrats continue to listen to him and that leftist donors have put quite a lot of money at the disposal of his various schemes.
The Clintons are history, but Brock has a new group meant to do for Biden what he did for Hillary. It’s a venture that, like a number of other Brock projects, exists in defiance of tax laws.
Allegedly coordinating with Hunter Biden’s lawyer and backed by a $10 million budget, Brock’s new venture, Facts First USA, is out to attack Republicans and protect Joe Biden’s reelection by taking on subjects, like Hunter, that “may be too personal or delicate for the White House to be responding or to even be seen as directing a response.”
After meeting with Hunter, Brock has bragged that “absent a vigorous operation, like the one we’re putting out, I think it makes it difficult for President Biden to be re-elected.”
In October, Brock sent out a promotional memo announcing “Facts First USA: A SWAT Team to Counter Republican Congressional Investigation”. The extended memo, apparently uploaded by a New York Times reporter, left little doubt as to what Brock intended to use Facts First for.
“The presidential election in 2024 will be close and simply relying on the hope that facts will triumph over conspiracy is not sufficient. Instead, a robust external force – a SWAT team with additional capacity – must also be in place to ensure that the media and public do not accept the false narrative that flows from congressional investigations. An external operation will also allow President Biden to stay focused on his own preferred messaging during 2023 and 2024 and on his reelection campaign. We call this effort Facts First USA,” the memo states.
External operations for presidential campaigns are nothing new, but Facts First USA is raising money through ActBlue Civics while being registered as a 501(c)(4). The tax code is quite clear and even the most liberal IRS positions still stipulate that a 501(c)(4) nonprofit cannot “engage in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to candidates for public office” if that is its primary purpose.
Unlike a union or the NRA, Facts First’s primary purpose is defending Biden.
An NBC News report on Facts First claimed that White House “back-channel communications led it to believe the effort is welcome.” Brock has said that his group, “intends to work with the White House where appropriate but will make our own judgments.”
There’s no ambiguity about the fact that Facts First has been set up to defend the Biden administration as part of 2024 presidential campaign activity. Facts First is not only in violation of the statute, which requires a social welfare angle for a 501(c)(4), but is even in violation of the primary purpose test that the IRS uses. A 501(c)(4) is not a PAC.
Brock practically reinvented independent rapid response operations and breaking the rules. Before the 2016 election, he created Correct the Record, a rapid response PAC whose coordination with the Clinton campaign was deemed to be extremely controversial.
The Brock memo promoting Facts First even describes “Correct the Record, which I founded and directed within American Bridge Super PAC (which I also founded) before spinning off as a standalone hybrid Super PAC that under the law was able to coordinate with the Clinton campaign, serves as a model of the work that must be done”.
Facts First looks a whole lot like Correct the Record except that it operates as a nonprofit. Clearly Brock believed that he couldn’t run Correct the Record under the American Bridge umbrella and created a separate organization that was not a 501(c)(4). With Facts First, Brock has decided to test whether he can reinvent Correct the Record for Biden as a 501(c)(4).
Furthermore, Facts First was a front used on behalf of Biden by Priorities USA Action: a leftist PAC where Brock had formerly been a board member. During the 2020 campaign, Priorities spent $5 million on digital ads attacking Republicans using, among other tags, Facts First.. It could appear as if Brock has repurposed a pro-Biden hybrid PAC campaign into a pro-Biden 501(c)(4) campaign attacking Republicans.
Brock and his backers are betting that the IRS won’t do anything. The number of leftist nonprofits that function as campaign operations has increased astronomically. And while the IRS has targeted conservatives, it has allowed leftist campaign operations, like those of Stacey Abrams, to operate as nonprofits.
That’s a phenomenon that is one of the subjects of Internal Radical Service by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, documenting how the IRS has enabled the rise of an empire of nonprofits funding partisan elections. It’s also why the David Horowitz Freedom Center will be filing a complaint with the IRS challenging the nonprofit status of what is clearly a campaign arm.
Brock has built a career on creating radical groups that abused nonprofit status and shattered the walls between political campaigns and social welfare groups. Creating a rapid response organization in coordination with the president’s son in order to ensure his reelection and maintaining backchannel communications with the White House doesn’t just strain even the most generous interpretations of the tax codes, it goes far beyond their farthest boundaries.
The political marriage of Hunter Biden and David Brock, two deeply troubled men who have plumbed new depths, is all too fitting. The organization born out of that marriage is not.
Facts First USA is another example of how the IRS has become the corrupt enabler for the Left.
With an army of new IRS recruits who, after basic training, will be targeting conservative and pro-Israel individuals, organizations and non-profits (like in the past), a more fitting name for them is
IR-“SS.” – and Fuhrer Brock is leading the ASSAULT.
If this involved Trump the M.S Media would have regular Feeding Frenzy but its Biden we hear the Crickets
Hunter Biden has retained HILLARY’S Winston & Strawn’s attorney Abbe Lowel:
LOWEL TO HUNTER: “Even a meth-head can remember this: Repeat after me… I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL!”
HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS??? If me or you tried that, what would happen?
Hunter Biden has retained HILLARY’S Winston & Strawn’s attorney Abbe Lowel:
LOWEL TO HUNTER: “Even a meth-head can remember this: Repeat after me… I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! (together) I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL! I DO NOT RECALL!”
HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS??? If me or you tried that, what would happen?
Hunter Biden has retained HILLARY’S Winston & Strawn’s attorney Abbe Lowel:
LOWEL TO HUNTER: “Even a meth-head can remember this: Repeat after me… I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! (together) I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL!I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL!I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL! I DON’T RECALL!”
HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS??? If me or you tried that, what would happen?
SORRY, I was editing by going back with comment still in writing mode and it posted three times instead. Why no edit button?
brock looks like the hideous offspring of Andy Warhol and Julian assange.
so perfect I wish I had thought of it
thanks for the many well written columns and for all the work you do, Daniel
thank you for the kind words and for reading them
I have posted this on MANY, MANY articles : WE NEED ELECTION FINANCE REFORM!!! The BUYING of politicians needs to end and the ONLY way to do that is REMOVE the FUNDING! We need to return politicians to where they belong – to THEIR CONSTITUENTS! Politicians should be more concerned about YOU and ME than the BILLIONAIRE that fronts them! And the only way to do that is to END the OUTSIDE MONEY! Donations should be limited to the people who are DIRECTLY affected by the office! City office = CITY residents only! County office = COUNTY residents only! Congressional Districts = DISTRICT residents only!! State offices = STATE residents only! National office = US INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS ONLY!! NO PACS!! AND the LIMIT needs to be revised to what the AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN can afford! I’d say no more than $250 PER CITIZEN per YEAR – TOTAL!! Why should the RICH and POWERFUL command the attention of politicians? They are SUPPOSED to be representing US!!! I’m not sure if this is even Constitutional – sure that the POLITICIANS will say NO, but THEY are SUPPOSED to answer to US!!
May I add a proposal that recently occurred to me during the recent battles over the variety of voting laws and processes among the many States?…..
“Local and state entities, per your list should have the “States’ Right” to establish any voting requirements their citizens desire, but in National Elections, e.g., for Presidents, the voting requirements MUST be uniform across the Nation and apply to ALL States.”
Seems logical to ME… Your thoughts?
With a guaranteed prison sentence for those politicians breaking the rules.
I remember Clinton preaching about campaign finance reform, all the while taking Chinese money. It’s a democrat ploy, accuse the other side of doing exactly what you are doing.
Daniel
They simply never stop.
It’s never enough
And it becomes overwhelming
Thank you for keeping us fighting
Diana s
they never stop and that’s exactly why we can’t stop either
thank you for continuing to read and to care
Interesting that he feared “right wing snipers”. Yet it is the left that always resorts to violence.
I sometimes wonder what the state of affairs would be if in fact the right hadn’t been so polite in the
early days of left wing shenanigans.
Theusual pack of right wing liesnd idiocy .