Subsequently, Bossie had a falling out with the Trump campaign and administration in May 2019 after Axios reported that Bossie had been accused by the Internal Revenue Service of defrauding political donors by funneling their donations to himself through consultants and book sales.[4] In January 2020 he returned to prominent association with the Trump administration as a strategic ally to help contest the impeachment of Donald Trump based on his past familiarity with impeachment battles.[5]
In 1992, Bossie joined Citizens United as a researcher, during which time Citizens United produced many films promoting Republican perspectives and talking points. Later in the 1990s, Bossie had a troubled turn as congressional investigator. Bossie was hired by the chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and new Oversight in 1997 as chief investigator to look into possible campaign finance abuses by U.S. President Bill Clinton.[6] In May 1998, bipartisan concern mounted over inappropriate redaction of tapes and transcripts of former U.S. Associate AGWebster Hubbell's prison telephone calls omitting some exculpatory passages. Newt Gingrich pressed for Bossie's resignation which followed shortly thereafter.[7][8]
In June 2018, Bossie, a regular guest on Fox News programs, made a statement to a fellow guest which was an insult to African-Americans; he later apologized.[11] Fox News suspended him for two weeks, calling the remarks "deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate."[12]
A volunteer firefighter in his youth, Bossie dropped out of university to pursue politics. Bossie was the youth director of Senator Bob Dole's 1988 presidential campaign.[14]
Bossie is the author of The Many Faces of John Kerry (Thomas Nelson, 2004), a hostile look at the Democratic nominee in the 2004 United States presidential election, then-SenatorJohn Kerry.[24] He also wrote Intelligence Failure (Thomas Nelson, 2004), a book alleging that failings on the part of the national security apparatus during the Clinton administration led to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.[25]
^Kumar, Anita. "A Trump aide returns from exile: The David Bossie saga". Politico. Retrieved October 16, 2020. Dave Bossie not only knows the impeachment process he knows how to fight the impeachment process and that's what makes him a valuable asset to President Trump.
^ abSchmitt, Eric (May 10, 1998). "May 3–9; A Top Aide Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2012. Under pressure from Speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican who heads the House Government and Reform Committee, accepted the resignation of the aide, David N. Bossie, a dogged anti-Clinton sleuth.
^Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (Supreme Court of the United States 2010) ("For the same reasons we uphold the application of BCRA §§201 and 311 to the ads, we affirm their application to Hillary . We find no constitutional impediment to the application of BCRA's disclaimer and disclosure requirements to a movie broadcast via video-on-demand. And there has been no showing that, as applied in this case, these requirements would impose a chill on speech or expression.").