🧵 THREAD: Donna Brazile: More than a campaign operative. Today, President Trump posted a TruthSocial post asking why…

🧵 THREAD: Donna Brazile: More than a campaign operative. Today, President Trump posted a TruthSocial post asking why Donna Brazile is still around on ABC. The answer is simple: she is a part of the Deep State, serving on the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Her timeline spans multiple Presidents, runs from the King Holiday campaign of the early 80s to the State Department’s Fulbright Board. She's one of the clearest case studies of how U.S. partisan politics, media narratives, and public diplomacy interlock to form a machinery of influence. As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

Brazile is a board member of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which is the Democratic wing of National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was formed in the Reagan years to replace a discredited and weakened CIA.

Brazile started politics in her teens, volunteering for the 1976 and 1980 campaigns of Jimmy Carter. She graduated Louisiana State University in 1981. Right after, she became a lobbyist for the National Student Education Fund.

If anyone wants to do a deep dive, go drop by at the Louisiana State University archives -- she's got 32 boxes of material.

Her political leadership skills were recognized early on. Already in 1983, just two years after graduating college, she became the national director of the 20th Anniversary March on Washington and was instrumental in getting MLK Jr. recognized as a national holiday. She stood in the Rose Garden as Reagan signed the bill (not in the picture below).

She organized Jesse Jackson's first bid for Presidency in 1984 and later that year would also help out with the Mondale campaign.

As an aside -- this seems to be a recurring pattern in both Democratic and foreign policy circles -- young people are put in leadership positions quickly.

She became national field director for Dick Gephardt in 1988, the first African-American woman to hold such a role. Sometime in the mid 1980s, she served as Executive Director of National Political Congress of Black Women (NPCBW), later renamed National Congress of Black Women.

She went onto becoming the deputy field director for Dukakis that year. But she got frustrated with Dukakis' unwillingness to engage in smear tactics, and got fired.

Brazile was featured in a 1989 article about how protests and demonstrations were being increasingly funded by big money. She was the coordinator for a massive Housing Now! march for homelessness.

In the 1990s, Brazile helped elect Eleanor Holmes Norton as DC's Congressional delegate. She served as chief of staff and press secretary to Norton.

Over the years, Brazile held multiple roles at the DNC. She played a role in disqualifying the delegates from Florida and Michigan in 2008 from being seated in 2008, saying "We need to send a message that you can't defy the rules."

She was Gore's national political director, which sent her star skyrocketing. She became program head for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and then had a prestigious fellowship with Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

She began her TV circuit around then, being a part of the "Best Political Team on Television" on CNN during the 2008 cycle. She wrote commentary on CNN's website as well.

Oddly enough, she also joined Fox News...

Brazile's academic activity is extensive, having lectured at hundreds of colleges all across the country. Obama first appointed her to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in 2013. Biden appointed her as chair in 2022.

To give an idea of how influential Fulbright scholars are.... The list includes Michael McFaul (Obama's infamous Russian ambassador), Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former Secretary-General of the UN), Hans Blix (UN weapons inspector) and more.

I found a press release claiming "Donna is THE thought leader of the diversity discussion as a universal policy that leads to excellence in all aspects of society" ...

Brazile isn't a passive member of the NDI. Brazile co-led a Kenyan delegation for election observation with the International Republican Institute (IRI).

Brazile served as the acting chair of the Democratic National Committee from July 2016 to February 2017, during Hillary's campaign. She admits the DNC had rigged the primary for Hillary and against Sanders, having found an agreement wherein Hillary's campaign paid off the DNC debt in exchange for the primary rigging.

Brazile threw Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz under the bus for allowing the arrangement to happen. Of course, she herself was an innocent bystander all this even as acting chair during Hillary's campaign.

Among MAGA, Brazile of course is best known for having leaked debate questions to the Clinton campaign. There's an oft-circulated quote from Hillary to Brazile, along the lines of "If that fuckin bastard wins, we’re all going to hang from nooses! You better fix this shit!" -- but I could not verify it.

So, in conclusion: Brazile isn't fired from ABC News because she has been born and bred since college to be an integral part of Deep State machinations. Her career spans multiple Presidential candidates, she has many NGOs to her credit, she lectures at many universities, she has been on many networks. She was groomed to become a one-woman Deep State army, and fulfilled her role well. Hope you enjoyed this thread!

FYI: I was unable to substantiate the rumors that Brazile visited Seth Rich in the hospital. She's indeed filed a cease and desist for anyone who claims this. Brazile did write about Seth Rich in her book though -- she claims it affected her deeply. She believed it was could be a racial incident or a Russian assassination.