Murray M. Chotiner was the first modern political consultant ands responsible for the rise of President Richard Nixon. Chotiner was born on October 4, 1909, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Albert Hyman Chotiner and Sarah Chotiner. The family moved to Columbus, Ohio, soon after Murray’s birth, and relocated to California in 1920. His father eventually abandoned his wife and children. Born into a Jewish family, his father was a cigar maker who moved the family to California to run a chain of cinemas before abandoning them.

After attending UCLA, Chotiner enrolled at the Southwestern School of Law, graduating at age 20 — the youngest graduate in the school’s history. He had to wait until he was 21 to be eligible to take the bar exam. He initially practiced law with his older brother Jack in a general practice in which they defended a number of bookmakers, but eventually dissolved the partnership and opened his own practice in Los Angeles. He later described many of his clients as “unsavory, to say the least.” Chotiner was known to be close to Mickey Cohen the crime boss of Los Angeles.

Chotiner initially registered to vote as a Democrat, but soon switched parties and involved himself in Republican politics, working on Herbert Hoover’s unsuccessful presidential re-election campaign in 1932. In 1944, Chotiner was elected president of the conservative California Republican Assembly, a grassroots organization of party activists.

When Earl Warren successfully ran for Governor of California in 1942, Murray Chotiner served as his field director for that campaign. Their relationship later soured when Chotiner asked the newly inaugurated governor to decline the extradition of one of his clients. Warren subsequently excluded Chotiner from any involvement in his 1946 re-election campaign. Despite this falling out, Chotiner later claimed (according to Nixon biographer Earl Mazo) that while people remembered him for “making” Richard Nixon, “the real man I created was Earl Warren.

Chotiner’s legacy is closely tied to Richard Nixon’s political rise. Together, they helped develop a more aggressive style of campaign politics that emphasized sharp attacks on opponents and became a lasting template in American elections.Nixon, running for Congress for the first time in 1946, had no qualms about Chotiner’s strong tactics. Chotiner urged his candidate to run a “high-risk campaign.”

By the end of it, Jerry Voorhis had been prominently linked in campaign materials to far-left organizations and accused of being soft on communism, based on his record with certain labor-backed groups. The defeated congressman later called himself ‘the first victim of the Nixon-Chotiner formula for political success.

Chotiner explained his core philosophy bluntly: “I believe in all sincerity that if you do not deflate the opposition candidate before your own campaign gets started, the odds are you are doomed to defeat.”

Nixon hired Chotiner to run his 1950 Senate campaign against liberal Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner used a similar strategy, stressing Douglas’s liberal voting record and printing accusations on pink paper to hint at communist sympathy. Chotiner found the commonality for Douglas’s voting record with New York’s notorious Communist Party Congressman Vito Marcantonio and thus was born ‘the Pink Lady” the tag given to her by the the crafty Chotiner.”She’s pink right down to her underwear “ Nixon would say in his speeches.

Chotiner oversaw the production of about 500,000 ‘pink sheets’—campaign flyers on pink paper that compared Douglas’s congressional voting record to that of thefar-left congressman known for communist sympathies. The campaign also arranged anonymous phone calls to voters inquiring about Douglas’s political leanings. This helped establish a more assertive and issue-driven style of politics that emphasized sharp contrasts between candidates. While these methods were legal, they generated significant debate and criticism during the race. Chotiner himself said of that campaign, “We only stated the facts. The interpretation of the facts was the prerogative of the electorate.”

Chotiner then maneuvered Nixon onto the ticket with Dwight Eisenhower at he same time settling a score with Earl Warren who was a favorite son candidate for President from California. Although pledged to Warren as a California delegate, Nixon undermined Warren among the California delegation,

He counseled Nixon through revelations that there were privately run funds to pay Nixon’s political expenses — revelations that the candidate decisively overcame with his televised Checkers speech. While Eisenhower contemplated dropping Nixon from the ticket Chotiner came up with the idea of Nixon taking his case directly to the people in a TV broadcast.

When Nixon faced accusations of antisemitism after Eisenhower picked him for the ticket, Chotiner — as Nixon’s Jewish campaign manager — secured a seal of approval from the Anti-Defamation League, which he used to answer concerned voters.

In 1956, a Senate subcommittee investigating bribery and influence peddling discovered a $5,000 check made out to “M. Chotiner” in the records of a New Jersey uniform manufacturer convicted of stealing from the federal government. Under questioning by subcommittee counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Chotiner also disclosed that he had been retained by New Jersey mobster Marco Regnelli in an attempt to stave off a deportation order. Chotiner fired back at Kennedy, as a practicing attorney, he routinely handled a wide range of criminal defense cases, including many bookmaking matters, and he pushed back against the subcommittee, arguing that he had been called primarily for political reasons.

Chotiner also contributed to Nixon’s 1962 campaign for Governor of California, and again for his successful 1968 presidential bid. After Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, Chotiner received a political appointment to a government position and, in 1970, became a member of the White House staff. He returned to private practice a year later, but remained involved in Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign.

Chotiner’s law offices were one floor above those of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP). Nixon aide Dwight Chapin was convinced Chotiner was secretly involved in Watergate, saying: “There is a person who goes all the way back through this thing, and that is Murray Chotiner. He was in the White House… he leaves; the break-in happens. Murray was the operator for Nixon on God only knows what.” Chotiner himself described the Watergate break-in as “stupid,” and when a newspaper accused him of organizing it, he sued for libel and won a substantial settlement.

On January 23, 1974, Chotiner was involved in a car accident outside the Washington home of Senator Edward Kennedy. Although he only suffered a broken leg, he died a week later. Nixon mourned the loss of a man he described as a counselor and friend.

Nixon adviser Leonard Garment described Chotiner as “a hardheaded exponent of the campaign philosophy that politics is war” and said that “politics is shabby most of the time, filled with lies and deceptions.” Chotiner is widely regarded as one of the earliest architects of modern negative campaigning in America — a forefather of the hardball, opposition-research-driven style of politics that would come to define the late 20th century and beyond.

I first met Laura Loomer in the New York office of Project Veritas. She was blonde then, feisty, smart and ambitious. She was also fearless. Because of her outspoken views regarding the dangers of radical Islam – views that I largely share – her career as an investigative journalist and advocate was severely hampered. She became possibly the most censored woman on the planet; forbidden from placing her warnings about Sharia law and radical Islam on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Even Uber banned her.

In 2020, Loomer decided to make a valiant race for Congress against Democrat incumbent Lois Frankel in an overwhelmingly blue Florida district, which happened to include Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s club and winter residence. She campaigned hard, but the presidential endorsement that she richly deserved never came.

On election day of that year, after President Trump voted, he was asked if he had cast his ballot for Loomer. He responded by saying that he had voted straight Republican – a backhanded way of saying yes.

Two years later, Loomer ran for Congress again, this time in a Republican district challenging an incumbent, Daniel Webster. General Michael Flynn and I both campaigned for her. But local media afforded little coverage to Loomer’s energetic campaign, and although she raised and spent more than $800,000, for some strange reason, little seems to have been spent on actual voter contact, according to her campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission; broadcast or cable TV commercials, radio, voter mailings, blast emails or text messages.

Since Loomer has never conducted a benchmark poll of voters on which to base her campaign, I would often ask her how she thought it was going. She would cheerfully tell me that she and her volunteers had knocked on thousands of doors and that voters were overwhelmingly committed to choosing her. I tried to explain to her that voters would tell a candidate anything in order to get them to just go away.

When I was framed by Robert Mueller in the Russian collusion witch hunt, Loomer was among my strongest and most reliable supporters and advocates for a presidential pardon, and for that I will always be grateful.

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter and my account was reinstated, my first act was to advocate for Loomer’s reinstatement, which would later be granted.

In 2018, President Trump catapulted Ron DeSantis, an undistinguished congressman with an ill-fitting suit, a bad haircut and an insufferably ambitious and pushy wife, to the Republican nomination for governor of Florida. Trump had to change his campaign schedule to return to the state three times to drag the personality-challenged DeSantis over the finish line. DeSantis won by 32,000 votes out of a total of 8.22 million cast.

Before DeSantis challenged Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, both Loomer and I were chastised for accurately predicting his treachery, and were told that we were being divisive and hurting the movement.

Loomer dug in aggressively in her research, accurately blaming the pay-for-play culture of Tallahassee for allowing DeSantis seemingly to extort millions for his challenge to Trump. I attacked DeSantis’s ties to the neocons and a shady book deal with HarperCollins, Rupert Murdoch’s publishing company. Murdoch paid DeSantis a $1.25 million advance on a book that would never make more than $30,000 in sales – essentially a payment to induce DeSantis to challenge Trump.

Based on her outstanding performance in her fight against DeSantis, President Trump warmed to Loomer and, on some occasions, she accurately identified neocons, globalists and NeverTrumpers who were trying to reinvent themselves and burrow their way into a second administration. I lauded much of this work.

When Trump promised Loomer a job on his 2024 campaign staff, he faced an internal revolt from both his family members and the crack campaign team of professionals that he had assembled, and the offer was withdrawn. It was a slight from which Loomer would never recover.

Nonetheless, through dogged hard work and general fearlessness, Loomer created a substantial online presence and audience. She soon developed a lucrative business in which individuals, candidates, corporations and others could pay her to promote their causes or destroy their enemies.

Loomer became a rabid cheerleader for an all-out attack on Iran, which was inconsistent with Trump’s election as a noninterventionist committed to stopping endless foreign wars where our inherent national interests were not clear. Loomer joined the Bush, Cheney, Lindsey Graham wing of the Republican party.

Only after becoming convinced that reliable intelligence showed that the Iranians were closer to building a nuclear weapon than had been previously thought did Trump launch Operation Midnight Hammer last June. It was a precise, limited, strategic but extremely lethal effort to at least set back, if not destroy, the regime’s nuclear ambitions.

Midnight Hammer, although wildly successful, was not enough for Loomer and her newfound friends, such as Mark Levin, Graham and Senator Tom Cotton. She also became obsessed with former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who first became an independent and then endorsed and campaigned for Trump, eventually becoming a Republican and being appointed to Trump’s cabinet as director of national intelligence. When Joe Kent, Gabbard’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned in protest at Trump’s decision to intervene in Iran, Loomer began insisting that Kent had acted at Gabbard’s direction or with her approval – a complete falsehood.

On March 17, Loomer sent word to Trump that Gabbard’s resignation was imminent, due to his decisions regarding Iran, and that the President must move to preemptively to fire her. It was, of course, not true. Fortunately, because President Trump knew of my strong advocacy of Gabbard for a position in his cabinet, he called me.

On April 10, veteran political reporter Marc Caputo of Axios published a story for which I am not the source, but which is essentially correct, headlined: “How Roger Stone persuaded Trump not to fire Tulsi Gabbard.” The piece explained that the President was displeased with Gabbard when she didn’t wholeheartedly endorse the Iran war and was prepared to fire her – but changed his mind after speaking to me.

I explained that Gabbard was loyal and wasn’t going to resign like Kent; firing her would create a damaging news cycle; and if she were fired she could become a potent GOP presidential candidate. In other words, it is apparent that Loomer attempted to trick the President into terminating Gabbard. (Loomer had reported in a post on X that Gabbard’s political staff had expected her resignation.)

Sadly, Loomer, who began as an independent investigative journalist, is now essentially a propagandist-for-hire. I do not claim that she is a paid agent of Israel, as the Israelis are far too clever for such an arrangement, which would have to be disclosed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. My guess is that Loomer is funded by wealthy American Zionists, as she has been in the past, who also give money to Israel. She denies she works for Israel.

I had no choice but to call Loomer out on her treachery, which brought the inaccurate counterattack that I represent the Somali government (false, although a lobbyist who did represent them included in his filing his intention to subcontract me, an arrangement that I never engaged in). Indeed, I have never worked in any capacity for the Somali government or any Somali entity, nor taken a penny from them.

Loomer also attacked me for representing the Nigerian government in their US-backed effort to end the slaughter of Christians. I took this work assignment with the encouragement of the administration and the National Security Council and, as required by law, hereby identify myself as representing them, as well as filing all legally required disclosures under FARA. Perhaps Loomer did not see the highly successful joint US-Nigeria bombing of ISIS on Christmas Day.

An American journalist recently told me that Loomer confided in him Mossad’s detailed plans for Venezuela. If true, this once again raises the question of who Loomer really works for, something she has thus far neglected to reveal. Don’t hold your breath.

And there are questions, too, about her mental health. I previously believed Loomer’s complaint that federal authorities had banned her from owning a firearm because she had confronted former FBI director James Comey about his role in Russiagate. I now believe this federal prohibition is based on her past medical history, something Loomer denies. Loomer has said in the past that she has mental health issues, and told this magazine in 2019 that she had once come close to taking her own life. I feel for Loomer, but there remain questions over why she is prohibited from having a gun license.

Who Loomer works for may be a mystery, but what is now abundantly clear is that President Trump will use the military he rebuilt in his first term to ensure that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and that the mullahs will never get a nuclear device. It’s something he has pledged to do since 1988, when he and I first began talking about his making a bid for president.

However, it is doubtful that Loomer will be satisfied unless President Trump commits American troops on the ground and the fight with Iran generates tens of thousands of American casualties, while creating billions in new defense contracts for the likes of Halliburton and General Dynamics.

Frankly, I doubt that is President Trump’s plan. At this point, however, it is abundantly clear that the leader Loomer is most loyal to is Benjamin Netanyahu, rather than Donald Trump.

Longtime Trump Advisor Roger Stone is publicly calling on the House of Representatives to expel one of their own this evening, as Florida Representative Cory Mills has been revealed as the latest member of the House to be embroiled in a scandal.

This comes just one week after scandal took down Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned from Congress after a video of him kissing a prostitute on the mouth was circulated, along with dozens of reports of sexual misconduct.

Stone has directly called on House Republicans to expel Mills over illicit lies Stone alleges the embattled Congressman made to President Donald Trump in order to secure his endorsement under false pretenses. Stone points out that Mills falsely told Donald Trump that a controversy involving a restraining order that had been placed against the Congressman had not occurred.

In a tweet uploaded to his X account this afternoon, Stone provided direct proof that a restraining order has in fact been successfully filed against Mills in Columbia County, Florida. The order was filed by a Lindsey B. Langston on October 14th, 2025.

A review of Trump’s endorsement, and the timing in which it occurred add up with Stone’s assertions. Mills was endorsed by Trump in February of 2026, just months after the restraining order had been filed and held against him. His concealment of the restraining order may have led President Trump to unknowingly endorse a criminal.

Who Is Lindsey Langston?

Lindsey Langston is a former girlfriend of Cory Mills who lived at his home, and moved out after allegations surfaced that Mills had assaulted another woman called Sarah Raviani. Langston, who believed herself to be in an exclusive relationship with Mills, departed his home and ended their relationship following this public revelation.

Evidently, her departure didn’t sit well with Cory Mills. Mills, according to court documents, became obsessed with Langston, threatening her both physically and emotionally.

A further review of the restraining order filed against Mills shows that Langston asserted that the Republican Congressman threatened her with physical violence and attempted to blackmail her by threatening to release nude images and photos that he had taken of her throughout their relationship. See Langston’s statement on that below:

Langston went as far as to describe herself as being in ‘imminent danger’ from Mills, who allegedly threatened to harm anybody that she may have a romantic relationship with in the future. See evidence of the imminent danger Mills posed to Langston in the document below:

Communications submitted within the restraining order reveal that Mills threatened any future romantic partners of Langston by telling them to ‘strap up cowboy,’ while also threatening to send them nude videos without her consent to the men.

Mills went as far as to say “it’s coming every time.” He then doubled down on his threats to release nude videos of Langston against her will, saying “thanks again for the videos.”

Langston was successful in obtaining her restraining order against Mills, meaning that a Judge ruled that Mills’ behavior warranted legal recourse to prevent him from contacting his ex-girlfriend.

The Sarah Raviani Investigation

In addition to being caught lying about the restraining order that was officially filed against him in 2025, Mills has also been accused of assaulting another ex-girlfriend, Sarah Raviani. It was the public revelation of Raviani’s allegations that prompted Langston to depart from Mills’ residence.

Raviani is the co-founder of Iranians for Trump.

Mills was accused of physically assaulting Sarah Raviani, and body camera observations reportedly noted visible bruising on the alleged victim. During the altercation, Mills told the officer to call Pam Bondi and Ed Martin.

As of February 2025, Mills was still being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department for allegedly assaulting Raviani.

Mills’ Many Lies About His Military Service

In addition to the many scandals involving ex-girlfriends facing embattled Congressman Cory Mills is a scandal involving his military service, and accusations of an extremely exaggerated combat record that has been used solely, and disingenuously, for political gain.

Congressman Cory Mills claims that, while serving as an Army medic in Iraq, that he personally saved many service men. There’s just one problem.

Mills claims he saved at least 3 service men. Their names are Alan Babin, Joe Heit and Joseph Ferrand. Despite Mills’ claims that he saved all of them, they have absolutely no recollection of the events Mills claims took place.

Then there’s the controversy surrounding Mills’ Bronze Star, which he retroactively received in 2021 following his service back in 2003. There is a form for being nominated for the Bronze Star called Army Form 638.

Mills’ specific form includes a signature from then Army Brigade Commander Arnold N. Gordon Bray. Much like the soldiers that Mills ‘rescued’ in Afghanistan, Bray has stated publicly, to several different media outlets, that he never actually signed the form.

The military record championed by Mills falls apart at first glance. He received awards, using forms that are allegedly fraudulent, based on events that those involved claimed never happened.

From his struggles with accusations of assault, lies to President Donald Trump, and falsification of his military record, Cory Mills sure has a lot to run from in his past. It seems only a matter of time before he exits the House.