Trump Hires the Original Hillary Hunter

David Bossie has made a career of Clinton-hunting. And now he’ll be doing it for Donald Trump.

Shane Harris

09.01.16 10:20 PM ET

It may be 2016, but the 1990s “vast right-wing conspiracy” is alive, well, and increasingly an integral part of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump added the most recent addition on Thursday when he tapped David Bossie, a veteran conservative opposition researcher and longtime adversary of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as his deputy campaign manager.

In an interview with The Washington Post, which first reported Bossie’s hiring on Thursday, Trump called him “a friend of mine for many years. Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how to win.”

Bossie certainly knows how to dig up dirt, and his appointment signals that the Trump campaign may be revisiting the anti-Clinton playbook that Bossie helped write in the 1990s.

Bossie knows the litany of Clinton scandals better than most; he’s been bird-dogging the powerful couple since before Bill became president, and helped get the anti-Clinton attack machine up and running in Washington.

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