Thread: Former CIA Agent to Launch Independent Presidential Bid

Here is Evan McMullin website.

https://www.evanmcmullin.com

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I found it suspicious when I went to the Better for America site and there was no disclosure on it's owner, supporters or an advisory board.

Formation	2016
Founders	John Kingston, Joel Searby
Type	501c4
Legal status	Active
Focus	Ballot Access for 2016 Presidential Election
Headquarters	New York, NY
Key people	John Kingston (Chair) Anne MacDonald (Executive Director) Joel Searby (Chief Strategy Officer)
Slogan	"America and Americans deserve better"
Website	www.betterforamerica.com

McMullin did interview with ABC and called Donald Trump "inhumane". Even Charles Krauthammer found that a bit much.

Just another Loonie Tune. Scary to think he worked for the CIA. No wonder we never know anything before it happens with crazies like this in the CIA.

Please post the following story to this thread. McMullin resettled refugees. He worked for Goldman Sachs.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...fugees-for-un/

This election is so strange. Think about all the CIA people coming out against Trump??!!! Isn't that weird for CIA personnel? I think they're afraid that if Trump is elected he's going to expose and shut down some of their criminal crap, like arming and funding ISIS through the Syrian Rebels, and who knows what else. What if the whole Osama bin Laden kill was a fake? I read a report years ago that Osama and died in Iran from kidney failure years earlier. What if Trump finds out that the CIA was asked to fabricate "intelligence" that Iraq had WMD's and did so??!! There is some peculiar reason they're doing this and it doesn't have anything to do with Trump's fitness or qualifications since he's more fit and qualified that all of these hacks tied together.

‘Never Trump’ Taps Their Candidate: Bald Unknown Mormon Hill Staffer from Goldman Sachs Who ‘Resettled’ Refugees for UN

(article posted as GeorgiaPeach requested above)

by REBECCA MANSOUR
8 Aug 2016
5,783 comments

With less than 100 days until the election, the Never Trump movement has fielded yet another independent presidential candidate to keep Republican nominee Donald Trump out of the White House.

This time their candidate is Evan McMullin. Here is what we know about him.

Candidacy Announced by Joe Scarborough

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough broke the news of McMullin’s candidacy, dedicating two hours of his show on Monday to McMullin’s long shot bid.

Scarborough also tweeted the news:

Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC
BREAKING FIRST ON @Morning_Joe: Multiple sources say an independent conservative candidate will announce his candidacy for president today.
4:59 AM - 8 Aug 2016

Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC
Multiple sources tell me the candidate is Evan McMullin. Wharton grad, CIA alum, Goldman Sachs, Republican Policy Director, US House
5:19 AM - 8 Aug 2016

McMullin’s official website went online this morning bearing what appears to be his campaign motto: “It’s never too late to do the right thing. And if we work together, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.”

From CIA to Goldman Sachs to Republican Establishment

McMullin has never held elected office. According to his LinkedIn profile, from 1999-2010, he worked as an operations officer in the national clandestine service for the Central Intelligence Agency managing “clandestine operations related to counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, energy, political stability, and counterintelligence.”

He then went on to work as an investment banking associate for Goldman Sachs in San Francisco for three years.

In 2013, he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the senior advisor to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and then, two years later, the Chief Policy Director for the House Republican Conference, where he was responsible for advancing the policy agenda of the Republican leadership in the House.

When John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, McMullin wrote on Facebook: “Today we learned that Congress will soon lose a tremendous leader in Speaker Boehner.”

Boehner’s ouster as Speaker was widely celebrated by grassroots conservatives as a victory for the Tea Party movement over the feckless and equivocating GOP leadership Boehner’s Speakership represented.

However, McMullin had nothing but praise for Boehner as “one of the most humble, gracious, and savvy leaders I’ve ever encountered.” McMullin said he was “grateful” for the opportunity “to learn” from Boehner.

Former “Volunteer Refugee Resettlement Officer” and Fierce Critic of Trump’s Position on Muslim Migration

According to McMullin’s LinkedIn profile, he worked in 2001 as a “Volunteer Refugee Resettlement Officer” for the United Nations, where he “vetted and processed UN-recognized refugees from the Middle East and Africa for resettlement to third countries.”

McMullin, who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is also a fierce critic of Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim migration to the United States.

He wrote on his Facebook page: “As Donald Trump continues attacking Muslims and as a former CIA officer, I’d like all Americans to know the truth: American and other Muslims have played a central role in virtually every counterterrorism win we’ve had since 9/11. They are an indispensable asset in this fight. Attacking them as a group makes America weaker, not stronger.”

He has also posted on his Facebook page about the plight of Syrian refugees, linking to an Amnesty International article on refugees and noting: “Sobering facts: Over 50 million people around the world – including 50% of Syrians – have been forced from their homes due to conflicts in the worst global refugee crisis since WWII.”

Brainchild of Rick Wilson and Funded by Romney Donor

Joe Scarborough noted this morning that McMullin has “the backing of key $$ contributors in the Republican Party.”

Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC
The candidate revealed by sources has an impressive resume and the backing of key $$ contributors in the Republican Party.
5:01 AM - 8 Aug 2016

That’s no lie.

One of the key Never Trump figures behind McMullin is none other than “Gollum-in-glasses” Rick Wilson, who last October declared that the GOP donor class must “put a bullet in Donald Trump” to stop him.

Buzzfeed reports: “Sources said Wilson was in Washington on Sunday meeting with members of McMullin’s prospective campaign — which includes some who were involved in a group called Better for America, which has been pushing an independent presidential bid.”

As a 501(c)(4) organization, Better for America can’t officially endorse a candidate even though it’s supporting McMullin’s bid. ABC News reports that the group “has been funded in part by John Kingston, a Boston-based conservative donor who bundled for Mitt Romney.” Kingston also has ties to George W. Bush and John McCain, according to The Hill.

The Hill reports on other members of this Never Trump group:

The group counts conservative lawyers Mohammad Jazil and Matthew Sawyer as members. Sawyer notably served as general counsel to Ross Perot’s Reform Party presidential bid in 1996, in which Perot took 8 percent of the vote.

Other members include former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R), veteran Democratic strategist Ileana Wachtel, pollster Joel Searby, Anne MacDonald, who served as chief of staff to former first lady Laura Bush after she left the White House, veteran conservative communications director Ashley Pratte, and ballot access experts Kahlil Byrd and Michael Arno.

Narrow Path to Victory

McMullin’s path to victory is extremely narrow to non-existent. Joe Scarborough noted that McMullin’s long shot campaign “has more to do with stopping Donald Trump than actually electing a president.”

The deadline for independent candidates to get on the November ballot has already passed in a number of states – including Texas with its large electoral count. However, Better for America is perhaps seeking to sue states like Texas to get on the ballot.

The Hill notes that “to get into the presidential debates, a candidate must poll at 15 percent in five national surveys leading up to the three scheduled debates and show that they are appearing on enough state ballots to have a path to 270 electoral votes.”

At this late date, with more organized candidates like the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein struggling to reach the 15 percent margin, it’s hard to see how McMullin will make it onto the debate stage, and without that national platform, his candidacy will remain unknown to the majority of voters.

A Mormon Candidate to Appeal to Mormon Voters in Utah, Arizona, and Idaho

McMullin is a Mormon and a graduate of Brigham Young University. Like Never Trump leader Mitt Romney, who served as a Mormon missionary in France, McMullin also did Mormon missionary work in a Catholic country. ABC News reports that McMullin was a missionary in Brazil, and his LinkedIn profile notes that he speaks Portuguese.

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has a Mormon problem, as his polling in traditionally red states with large Mormon populations shows. The Huffington Post notes that McMullin’s candidacy could have the most impact in three such states: Utah, Arizona, and Idaho.

In fact, the date of McMullin’s announcement comes just in time to make the August 15 deadline to get on the Utah ballot as an independent candidate. Utah’s election laws only require 1,000 voter signatures for a candidate to be included on a ballot – a relatively easy number to achieve.

Glenn Beck’s Never Trump Scheme at Play?

During a July 27 radio interview with fellow Never Trump member Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck and his co-hosts articulated an ambitious scheme to run a third party candidate in red states that are not battleground states for Trump.

The idea, which was explained by Beck’s co-host Stu Burguiere, is to have this independent candidate siphon off enough votes from Trump to keep Trump and Hillary Clinton under the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win the race outright, thereby throwing the election to the House of Representatives to decide the outcome, where they hope a Republican House will elect their independent candidate or another person who is not Trump.

They suggested the candidate should be someone like Mitt Romney, but that was only because they couldn’t choose Paul Ryan because he’s the Speaker of the House. (They assumed that Ryan was the ideal candidate for this scheme because House Republicans would vote for him).

Burguiere matter-of-factly said that “the will of the people is a serious problem with this” scheme because the people actually voted for Trump, but Beck, Erickson and their Never Trump compatriots apparently believe in thwarting democracy to save it from Trump.

Though McMullin is not as ideal a candidate as Romney, he is a fellow Mormon who is hoping to challenge Trump in deep red states with large Mormon populations.

Could McMullin’s long shot candidacy be a part of a more elaborate scheme to keep Trump and Hillary below 270 electoral votes and throw the election to the House? After all, keeping Trump under 270 is a lot easier than winning 270.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...fugees-for-un/

‘Never Trump’ Taps Their Candidate: Bald Unknown Mormon Hill Staffer from Goldman Sachs Who ‘Resettled’ Refugees for UN

LOL!!! It's so obvious, so hilarious, so ridiculous.

Could McMullin’s long shot candidacy be a part of a more elaborate scheme to keep Trump and Hillary below 270 electoral votes and throw the election to the House? After all, keeping Trump under 270 is a lot easier than winning 270.

Well, Trump says he thinks the election may be "rigged", and I'm sure there are forces in several corners from Hillary to Romney to Kasich and others who would love to figure out a way to throw this election to the wind.

My, the GOP establishment is busy aren't they? Now this Evan McMullin well-connected but unknown may try to run. We have 50 GOP officials warning about Donald Trump and Romney, McCain and Bush may endorse Gary Johnson. How obvious the establishment is behaving...voters be damned. These people created the situation for someone like Trump, get over it!

by PATRICK HOWLEY
10 Aug 2016

A Democratic political veteran is joining forces with #NeverTrump Republicans as Hillary Clinton sympathizers prop up fringe small-party candidates to bring down Donald Trump’s vote share and smooth the road to the White House for Clinton.

The race now has five candidates, with Gary Johnson running as a Libertarian, Jill Stein with the Green Party, and former Goldman Sachs employee Evan McMullin for the #NeverTrump independent party. Two of these candidates stand to help Clinton, whose husband never won 50 percent of the popular vote in two national elections with Ross Perot.

Breitbart News has learned that the McMullin effort is being led by a former top Democratic staffer, while evidence surfaces that Johnson is a tool in a wider conspiracy to hurt Trump on behalf of Clinton.

The new pro-Evan McMullin super PAC “Stand Up Together” is led by political operatives Kahlil Byrd and Chris Ashby. Who is Kahlil Byrd?

Kahlil Byrd is the former communications director and senior strategist for Democrat Deval Patrick’s campaign for governor in Massachusetts in 2006 and the director of gubernatorial appointments for the Deval Patrick administration.

At that time, national Democrats were circling around Patrick, who was being advised by David Axelrod. When Axelrod left Patrick to advise Barack Obama two months after Patrick’s election to the governorship, progressive politics on the presidential level shifted in Obama’s favor.

Byrd was working for Patrick as early as Patrick’s gubernatorial announcement in 2005, when Patrick launched the Obama-sounding campaign slogan “Believe Again” while Obama was a rookie in the Senate.

Byrd is a Huffington Post blogger, a onetime “Team Member” on the Council on Foreign Relations, and a graduate of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Byrd’s Council on Foreign Relations bio notes that in addition to Democrats he has also worked for independents and Republicans. He was identified as a media adviser to Massachusetts Republican Jeff Beatty, who got 31 percent of the vote running for Senate against John Kerry in 2008. The progressive blog Blue Mass Group called Byrd’s involvement with Beatty a case of “strange bedfellows.”

Byrd went on to co-found the 2012 group Americans Elect, which sought to reform party primaries and place a “bipartisan” ticket on state ballots. But despite raising upwards of $40 million and winning some awards, Americans Elect did not actually field a candidate to challenge Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Stand Up America says that it is not working on ballot access for McMullin but rather focusing on marketing and grassroots campaign activity.

Ashby, a Republican lawyer and political operative, is joined with Byrd in this anti-Trump effort.

Byrd and Ashby did not participate in this report.

“I am running against the Washington insiders, just like I did in the Republican Primaries” Trump declared on Twitter.

Those insiders are raining fire on Trump’s insurgent candidacy with 88 days to go. Globalist media corporations are turning their networks into all-day anti-Trump marathons. The media is flogging the narrative that fringe candidates have the chance to win in the House of Representatives in a constitutional-crisis situation.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper mentioned that kind of scenario in his ridiculously pro-Clinton primetime town hall with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and his running mate William Weld, who defended Clinton on her email scandal. Johnson tore into Trump and put up light and perfunctory opposition to Clinton, saying, “Was there anything she didn’t promise to anyone in her acceptance speech?”

Johnson’s campaign donor list includes corporate heavyweights like IBM, United Technologies, and even Republican-hated housing giant Freddie Mac.

I reported:

A top Clinton-supporting official at the “libertarian” Niskanen Center think tank (which advocates for more Syrian refugee settlement in America) spelled out the strategy in no uncertain terms: the Libertarians need to adopt a Right-sounding platform so they can take some of Trump’s support and prop up Clinton.

Did you notice that the mainstream networks began touting a Clinton lead in a new “3-Way Poll.”…

…These two marginal politicians are clearly enjoying the spotlight that the pro-Clinton media are finally giving them in their effort to stop Trump. (Something tells me the folks at CNN have not secretly been reading Reason magazine all these years.)

Green Party candidate Jill Stein, meanwhile, struggles to gain wide media attention as she tries to pick up the shattered remnants of Bernie Sanders’ movement and go forward to November against Clinton. The Left is going at her already, with liberal publication Slate attacking Stein on Clinton’s behalf.

Stein’s running mate Ajamu Baraka is making a case to left-wingers for the overthrow of the two-party system. Will the mainstream media give Stein and Baraka the same opportunities they’re giving Johnson, Weld, and McMullin?

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...ican-revealed/