Opposition research

We'll run up the checks of people who donated to Trump lawfully just to see if we can find something on them.

It was, in many ways, it looks like now, and I'm not 100% there yet, but it looks like the Jack Smith team and the FBI team was a political opposition research team that happened to masquerade as a prosecutor.

No.

They were doing some prosecutive work too, but they were using that to create opposition research.

And I think that that's what you're beginning to see because there is no reason, in a few minutes, I'm going to tell you some new documents released by Chuck Grassley on Arctic Frost that matched the sort of stuff we found on Plaza Echo.

But some of the stuff that was gathered had nothing to do with the criminal cases.

These requests, according to Senator Grassi, were well outside Smith's scope of purported review.

He was fishing.

But House Democrats-

... oppo research.

Always.

House Democrats say direct-to-door gun sales rule would endanger Americans.

and give press visibility to the candidate.

But also his war room sensibility of do opposition research, have the patience to hold it, and unfurl it towards election day.

I think you'll see that, and I think that's the spirit of Bill Clinton, and tactical advice is a big deal.

But look, he'll do robocalls to get out the base in key places.

What role did, uh, the time at American Bridge play for you? I've interviewed, like, Bradley Rauch over the years, Pat Dennis.

I have some sense of kinda the opposition research that goes on over there, but was that a meaningful time? What did you do there?

Again, I've also been just extremely lucky to learn from people who...

You know, it's always hit or miss with who your boss is and how much interest they have in your professional development, and I've been extremely blessed to work under a bunch of people that taught me a tremendous amount.

I worked with Pat, who I think extremely highly of, and it's been fun to watch him.

He was just, like, a researcher at the time, and now he's running the whole shebang, so it's been really cool to watch him grow in that role.

But I, I do think that the, the opposition research piece of it, it was super fun.

Kind of a running theme here, like, I love going deep on stuff, and so I, I find it genuinely fun to, like, dig into a bunch of different angles on something and uncover new pieces of information and stuff like that.