Our Friend David Horowitz, the Trump Propagandist – The New Republic

To help sustain the lie, Horowitz was duty bound to deliver another quickie Trump book within six months of the lost election. Not that The Enemy Within provides evidence that a crime was committed on November 3, 2020. Its basically a clip job, repeating the wild and disproven fraud allegations made by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Peter Navarro, and other Trump fabulists. In the screed, Horowitz claims a vast criminal conspiracy carried out at polling places in many of the 50 states. Yet theres one little fact missing from the dossierthe name of a single person who participated in the biggest crime in American history. We have heard, of course, of victimless crimes; for Horowitz and his fellow conspiracy theorists, the alleged election fraud is a history-changing crime that hasnt a single named perpetrator.

Trumps best legal minds, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell (and their mouthpieces in Trump media), did put forth the names of two guilty parties: Hugo Chvez (deceased) and Dominion voting machines. But when Dominion began filing billion-dollar lawsuits, most of the Trump world backtracked or recanted. For Horowitz, the Democratic Party is guilty of terrible crimes that no one can prove, while the MAGA criminals who stormed the Capitol under the glare of hundreds of video cameras are as white as snow and as red, white, and blue as the patriots of 1776. The protesters inside the Capitol are heroes, Horowitz tweeted on January 6, as the mob ransacked the Senate and House chambers and threatened to kill his friend, Mike Pence. They will not be able to stop the steal, but they will expose the lies that are defending the steal. Shame on the Republicans who caved to Bidens criminals.

One of the laugh lines in The Enemy Within is the outrage Horowitz directs against what he calls the liberal tax-exempt advocacy culture, a category in which he includes the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that uses a successful but sinister political fundraising strategy. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. According to the official IRS website, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. We arent lawyers, but those prohibitions sound as if they would apply to the Horowitz Freedom Centers relentless support of Trump, as well as its financial support, to the tune of $175,000 (as reported in The Washington Post and The Intercept), of the Party for Freedom of the Dutch ethno-nationalist politician (some would say white supremacist) Geert Wilders, then campaigning for the Netherlands Parliament. (The first of the donations came in March 2014; later that year, Wilders was a speaker at the Restoration Weekend.)

The IRS appears reluctant to provide any serious oversight, so Horowitz manages to raise a significant percentage of the Freedom Centers yearly $6 million budget through tax-exempt donations from conservative foundations and individual big funders. That budget allows Horowitz to take a salary of over $600,000, according to the centers latest tax filing. Some portion of the centers budget is also raised through Horowitzs signed fundraising letters, which go out to a vast email list. Horowitz typically begins each with a personal salutation, and then issues a dire warning: America is about to be overrun by radical Islamists or Central American immigrants, or educators are turning public schools into centers for leftist indoctrination. Then comes the pitch: Send me $35 or $50 so the Freedom Center can continue fighting to save the country.

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Our Friend David Horowitz, the Trump Propagandist - The New Republic