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Doug Schoen and Mark Penn regularly go on Fox to defend Trump
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Trump Previously Lined the Pockets of His Democrat Defender Mark Penn
The former Clinton strategist, who has railed against the Mueller probe, said it was minor work and notes that it happened three decades ago.
Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay
12.17.18 5:05 AM ET
Nearly three decades before he was elected President of the United States, Donald Trump was looking to build the tallest building in the world.
The plan called for a huge development on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a towering 150-story commercial and residential project that would serve as the relocated home of NBC and tentatively be dubbed Trump City. But Trump was facing stiff resistance from community activists in the area. He wanted to marshal some data showing that everyday New Yorkers supported the project. So Trump’s company turned to a group of Democratic pollsters to conduct a survey.
The work done by the firm Penn & Schoen Associates didn’t help get Trump’s project built. But it did provide the first known link between Trump and one of the firm’s namesakes, Mark Penn, who has emerged in the last year as one of the president’s most outspoken defenders. Penn’s columns in The Hill routinely attack the president’s political and legal adversaries. In his most recent column, published last Monday, Penn went after federal prosecutors in New York and Washington who have targeted the president and his associates.
But neither that column nor any other he’s written has revealed Penn’s past business ties to Trump. Nor has that biographical detail been mentioned in the frequent TV appearances he’s made on Fox News, in which he often attacks the president’s critics. The Hill did not return a request for comment and Fox News declined to comment. Instead, it is Penn’s time working on behalf of President Bill Clinton during the Ken Starr investigations that is offered as proof that he brings not only an unbiased take on the current political debates, but the experience of someone who worked on the other side of the ledger.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-penn-trumps-democratic-defender-previously-worked-for-trump?ref=home