'BLOODBATH': AP describes AAF fight over extreme Bidens nominations
"We're a hired gun for Freedom!" - AAF president Tom Jones
An AP article details how American Accountability Foundation’s fight to stop the nominations of radicals like Gigi Sohn took the DC establishment by surprise.
“It was a bloodbath,” Sohn said.
The article only included a small portion of our answers to the questions the reporter posed… but we wanted to tell the full story so you can see the bias inherent in the liberal media:
AP Reporter: WHAT ARE THE AAF’S MAIN GOALS?
To use research to educate the public about the people leading their government and important institutions.
AP Reporter: HOW DO YOU ALL SELECT THE BIDEN NOMINEES TO BLOCK?
In the case of nominees, AAF looks at individuals who are seeking a consequential position in government and who, if confirmed, could undermine the values of free enterprise, traditional values, or a robust national security.
AP Reporter: WHAT SPECIFIC ROLE DID AAF PLAY IN BLOCKING GIGI SOHN’S NOMINATION?
We conducted research and used the tools of mass communication to educate the public about Ms. Sohn's history and approaches to policy. Evidenced by Ms. Sohn's current employment status, the information we shared appears to have been compelling.
AP Reporter: WHERE DOES YOUR FUNDING COME FROM?
G-d fearing Patriots.
AP Reporter: THE AAF SAYS ON ITS WEBSITE IT “RAN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN BILLBOARDS, NEWSPAPER ADS, AND DIGITAL ADVERTISE TO EDUCATE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HOW WRONG SHE WAS FOR THE POSITION.” SPECIFICALLY, WHERE DID THESE ADS APPEAR? (I SAW THAT SOME OF THE ADS APPEARED ON FACEBOOK AND COST BETWEEN $312,700 AND $382,091).
Newspapers, billboards and social media.
AP Reporter: HOW MUCH DID YOU ALL SPEND ON THE SOHN NOMINATION, EXACTLY? DID YOU ALL WORK WITH OTHER GROUPS TO BLOCK HER NOMINATION AND IF SO WHO?
We spent as much as we deemed necessary.
AP Reporter: AAF ISSUED A STATEMENT FOCUSING ON SOHN’S SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT. SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR A COMMISSIONER POSITION AT THE FCC. WHAT DO HER REMARKS ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE TO DO WITH THE FCC?
Gigi Sohn's hostility toward law enforcement and support for defunding the brave men and women who protect our communities shows that she does not share the values of mainstream America and that makes her unfit to assume a Senior leadership position in the United States government. I'd note that Ms. Sohn is a private citizen today and not an FCC commissioner, so these radical views apparently seemed highly relevant to a majority of the United States Senate.
AP Reporter: DAVID CHIPMAN TOLD ME YOU CALLED DOZENS OF HIS FORMER ATF COLLEAGUES, ALONG WITH HIS EX-WIFE. WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION WERE YOU HOPING TO OBTAIN?
This is an important point, because it shows how AAF is doing the vetting that the Administration fails to do. Our calls to Micki Chipman were an effort to get a copy of a letter she sent to the ATF maintaining that David had attempted to defraud the federal government of $44,000 by illegitimately claiming a reimbursement that he was not entitled to. Apparently after Ms. Chipman's correspondence to David's supervisors at the ATF he was denied the reimbursement. As an investigative reporter I am sure you can understand how sworn claims that a nominee for a senior position in the federal government attempted to defraud the government warrant full investigation. I've attached the relevant part of the Ms. Chipman's claim for your review.
AAF's calls to Mr. Chipman's colleagues were at the heart of exposing his problematic workplace behavior. Chipman's lead credential was his service as an ATF Agent. AAF's original research exposed compelling problems in his ATF service history, which apparently even the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and FBI could not be bothered to research, and resulted in every member of the minority on the Senate Judiciary Committee highlighting the problems we exposed. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/judiciary_republicans_to_chm.durbinchipman.pdf
AP Reporter: CHIPMAN ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE THINKS THE AAF HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GET PEOPLE TO DO HARM TO BIDEN NOMINEES. IS THIS SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS YOU?
Dave Chipman is frustrated that his past caught up to him and derailed his nomination to be President Biden's gun czar. His claims are baseless and nonsensical.
AP Reporter: IS THE AAF OVERSTEPPING THE RULES OF BEING A TAX-EXEMPT NONPROFIT BY BEING SO PARTISAN?
We are not partisan, we're guided by traditional American values. To your sources claims of partisanship, which are baseless, I would point you to four different emails/reports in the last week and a half from AAF educating the public about leaders, all of who are Republicans, not living up to the mainstream conservative values Americans cherish, including,
1) An email taking the Republican Leader of the Ohio General Assembly to task for supporting his state pension voting for woke pro-abortion and climate change corporate resolutions.
2) An email to hundreds of Florida lawmakers and staff underscoring that supposed "conservative" lobbyists in Florida were shilling for BlackRock, a woke company that is using its investment power to promote woke values and encouraging them to not meet with tha lobbyist.
3) An email to hundreds of Texas lawmakers and staff also highlighting three of the most senior faux conservative lobbyists in Austin and their firms for their representation of BlackRock and again encouraging them not to meet with those lobbyists.
4) An email to hundreds of Hill staff earlier this week educating them that former Republican Senate staffers had come on board to red-wash Bud Light's offensive partnership with Dylan Mulvaney and that staff may want to reconsider taking meetings with shills for Anheuser Busch in light of the recent corporate behavior.
AP Reporter: WOULD IT BE ACCURATE TO DESCRIBE THE AAF AS A HIRED GUN?
We're a hired gun for Freedom!
AP Reporter: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE TO ADD?
I'd just like to express my sincere personal pleasure that defeated nominees like Gigi Sohn and David Chipman have the free time to pitch stories like this instead of being burdened by the time demands of a Senate confirmed position in the United States Government. America is better off when the Dave Chipmans and Gigi Sohns of the world only have the media to work with to target people and groups they dislike as opposed to the heft of the United States government.
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