thetrumpwatchdog.com/… This is a follow up to my Paths to Putin posts



What if I told you that there is an extensive well-funded network of conservatives all belonging to one organization, who have managed to control the narrative since Reagan took office? That this network probably united with the rest of the free world in order to destroy the Soviet Union and then used this new-found weakness to spread across the world, uniting with anti-Islamic forces in order to form secret alliances that have ultimately culminated in a world where Trump and Putin are the power players in the market?



It is true! The Council for National Policy was started in 1981, as an Umbrella Organization for Conservatism. According to this well researched decade old website, the CNP has members with links to some of the most deplorable people in society. It has basically been a secret society with private membership, aside from 5 or so years. I will delve into the older member directories in further posts.

Every single major conservative media outlet, sans Fox News, is present in the 2014 member directory. Owners of radio stations covering 250 stations, at Salem Communication and Bott Radio networks, are members. The Founders of Newsmax, Red State, Town Hall, Christian Broadcasting Network, CNS News Service, Worldnetdaily, Judicial Watch, The Conservative Pundit, The American Conservative, Daily Caller, American Thinker, and Steve Bannon who runs Breitbart are all listed in the member directory.



Every single religious advocacy group you’ve ever heard of and some you haven’t are listed there. Every major think tank from Heritage to A.E.I, to the Birchers and the Federalist Society trace their roots back to the Council For National Policy. The Koch Brothers, at least in the 2014 member directory do not appear to be members, but the people who run every group they founded are. All the major direct mail marketing companies are represented.



When Obama won in 2008, the CNP freaked out and immediately launched the Conservative Action Project. Patrick Pizzella, Kellyanne Conway, Becky Dunlop, and Ed Meese were the main people behind this. What is interesting about this is that Patrick Pizzella worked as a lobbyist with Jack Abramoff for Russian Oil companies in the 90s, and even brought Conway along for one of his trips. All four of these people now work in the Trump administration. Everyone in the background of the faux grassroots tea party movement Is also a member of the CNP.

Vice President Mike Pence might not be in the Council, but he has close ties to it. At one point, he was President of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation which is under the Umbrella of the State Policy Network. The SPN was created by a Heritage Foundation/CNP member. Pence also graduated from the conservative Leadership Institute, also created by and staffed by CNP members. The Devos/Prince family have also donated heavily to his campaign. Alexander Acosta has given speeches to the group before. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao spent 20 years as a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, whose founders also are in the CNP. Jeff Sessions was a US Attorney under CNP member and Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese. Sessions has given speeches to the CNP as well and shares the same theocratic religious philosophy as Pence and the CNP.

Between Obama’s election and now, the CNP has hosted meetings 3 times a year. The members who come are not public knowledge, but the speakers are. In 2009, Hugh Hewitt, Mark Levin, Michael Reagan, and Herman Cain gave speeches. In 2010, all the founders of the tea party groups spoke as well as the leaders of the religious right, Herman Cain, and Erick Erickson. In 2011, Reince Preibus gave a speech as did Rumsfield and Ken Cuccinelli. 2012 saw Cruz, Mike Lee, Bobby jIndal, John Bolton, Jim Demint, and Cuccinelli speak again. Tom Cotton spoke in 2013. 2014-2016 were more of the same, and then Michael Flynn and KT Macfarland gave speeches right before the election.

The Right has been fighting the long game. They’ve taken over the religious world, assembled a vast network on super-rich donors and formed foundations that dole out the money they receive to the rest of this advocacy groups and social issue support group. What strike me the most is that the 2014 membership directory seems to be completely devoid of any neoconservative influence. It is a theocratic organization first, and a libertarian low tax think tank second.



The story starts in the 70s. Paul Manafort, Lee Atwater, Roger Stone, and Charlie Black were all working together on Republican Presidential Campaigns. With Reagans election, the four of them opted to immorally lobby for foreign dictators. At the time, the college republicans were being led by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, and Paul Erickson. The religious right finally saw a chance to push the country as far as to the right as possible and formed the Council on National Policy to unite everybody.