August 16, 2024
The council for national policy, the cnp, was birthed or whelped in 1981 and Pat certified player Robinson founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) was the cnp pack’s president in 1986 and 87.
Paragraphs from the piece dated October 25, 2021. The writer begins with Donald Trump about to make a speech to the council for national policy, cnp pack in Oct. 2015:
Trump looked the part. He wore a blue suit, white shirt and shiny blue tie. But he seemed to lose his way during the pitch and began riffing about his hair. He turned his head to various angles for the crowd. “It looks pretty good back here,” Trump said, as CNP’s president, Bill Walton, would later recall during a confidential talk captured on video.
Most of the early paragraphs aren’t worth reading but it gets better.
Working with fellow Washington Post reporter Shawn Boburg, I started gathering documents and cultivating sources. We zeroed in on key figures and groups, making charts of their ties and timelines of their actions. We identified networks of groups that served as a kind of nerve system for conservative influence campaigns.
The Council for National Policy began taking root on Jan. 22, 1981, when six religious and social conservatives gathered for dinner at a home in Dallas. Most American conservatives were still jubilant about the inauguration of Ronald Reagan two days earlier. They rejoiced at the prospect that Reagan might make good on one of his campaign slogans: “Let’s Make America Great Again.” Over dinner, they resolved to bring together Christian activists, business interests and wealthy donors under one umbrella to cajole and pressure the new administration.
CNP’s leaders had much experience in political fundraising, organizing and communication. Among them was a political operative named Tom Ellis, who had played on White racial fears as he helped build the career of the late former senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. (Helms, who became a revered member of CNP, was once described by The Post’s David Broder as “the last prominent unabashed white racist politician in this country.”) Others included televangelist Pat Robertson; Ed Meese, the attorney general under Reagan; Sam Moore, the nation’s largest Bible publisher; and Rich DeVos, billionaire co-founder of Amway and funder of conservative causes.
On hand for Trump’s presentation was Ralph Reed, an evangelical political leader and CNP member. By his own account, he had come to know and admire Trump. But Reed sensed intense skepticism from other CNP members, as he writes in his book “For God and Country: The Christian Case for Trump.” Then, at the meeting, something unexpected happened. After his presentation, Trump, like the other Republican candidates, answered questions and offered to stand with any CNP member for a photo. The line went clear out of the ballroom.
Still, in early 2016, just months before the election, Hillary Clinton appeared to be ahead in the esteem of most Americans. It was increasingly clear Trump needed the conservative evangelical vote to win. “The Trump train kept rolling, and Evangelical leaders were either going to have to get on board or get out of the way,” Reed writes. That March, Trump and Donald McGahn, who would become a White House lawyer, hosted a meeting with Leo, who was involved with a nonprofit network that was raising hundreds of millions to fund media campaigns and other initiatives in support of conservative judges and causes. The three men focused on the Supreme Court seat left open after the recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia. McGahn thought Trump could benefit by releasing a list of nominees to replace Scalia, an unusual move that would reassure religious and social conservatives who wanted an antiabortion jurist. Trump expressed support for one of Leo’s long-cherished goals: a federal court system dominated by judges who would interpret the Constitution in ways that favored business and conservative views.
Under a pair of photos:
LEFT: An internal CNP directory for 2015 had about 400 members across the country. They included Kellyanne Conway, who would become a White House counselor. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) RIGHT: Steve Bannon, who was chief executive of Trump’s campaign, was also listed as a member. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)
Two more paragraphs:
I obtained an internal CNP directory for 2015 and examined it for insights about the kinds of people Trump would be courting. There were about 400 members from across the country, many of them leaders of relatively small nonprofits focused on social and religious conservatism. But I also saw some now-familiar names: Leonard Leo, then of the Federalist Society; Steve Bannon, then leader of Breitbart News and later chief executive of Trump’s campaign; David Bossie, the head of the group Citizens United and later Trump’s deputy campaign manager; and Kellyanne Conway, who would become a White House counselor.
“Today we’re as close to losing this nation as we ever have been,” Kay Coles James, then president of the Heritage Foundation, said at another CNP session, according to an internal video….
More links with cnp info including membership over the years. To me it’s humorous where the list of members in 2014 The Council for National Policy: Behind the Curtain | Southern Poverty Law Center (splcenter.org) was posted. As they themselves, the splc are another sorry pack of cover-up cons.
There you will read names including Amerisearch founder William “Bill” Federer; former attorney general under George skull & bonesjr., liar for hire John st. elmo, enjoyed covering up a mass murder Ashcroft; Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson; Judicial Watch president Thomas Fitton; the late Jerry “Clinton Chronicles” Falwell; the American Bible Society’s Joshua Glacken; lt. colonel Oliver drug runner North, former senator Rick cover-up Santorum and Jay certified player Sekulow, chief council for the American Center for Law & Justice etc. etc. etc.
Jay and I go way back, all the way back to Springtime in 1999 when Paul dishonorable Crouch tried to steal $250,000 from me when I asked Crouch to host a conference – America Be Thou Loosed – at his Trinity Broadcasting Network’s headquarters. In my straight to the point letter to Sekulow, I typed: you are either part of the problem or part of the solution…am sure Jay will remember that.
I told Sekulow he had one week, the weekend and five business days, to get my money back or Paul wanna-be thief Crouch would damn sure regret his dishonest actions. Will write more about that in the next note.
The Washington Post piece refers to Pat cover-up Robertson’s protege Ralph bilderberg in 2004 Reed more than once. 2004 Bilderberg Meeting Participant List | Public Intelligence
Six more war mongering Americans with Ralph “republican” Reed in Italy includes then Washington Post ceo Donald Graham, Melinda “microsoft” Gates, David may he rot in hell Rockefeller sr., then council on foreign relation’s president Richard Haass, federal reserve bankster Timothy Geithner and John skull & bones Kerry’s 2004 presidential running mate, then North Carolina senator John “democrat” Edwards.
Sisters and Brothers – it is all a game within a game. A game played by some of the sorriest bitches & bastards who have ever walked this earth. I have them in the palm of my hand and I plan on typing more tomorrow.
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