Mark Penn And Doug Schoen Scratch Trump's Back!

Mark Penn is a Trump supporter. He once ran Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. He is currently advising Donald Trump on how to avoid prosecution.

Mark Penn, a former pollster for Hillary Clinton is an adviser to that imbecile Donald J. Trump. The Fox News "Democrats" are being exposed as Trumpers.

Almost thirty years ago, Trump hired Penn to do some research on residents of a neighborhood he wanted to develop one of his properties on.

He was bashing the Blue Wave. The pollster was a leading voice against the Democratic leadership appointing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House again.

Penn is a sharp critic of Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump and Russia.

Penn wrote some piece for The Hill blasting Democrats for the mere thought of impeachment. The piece was picked up by The Drudge Report, Breitbart and soon found a place in Fox News programming. Then of course, Trump praised the Penn piece.

It was revealed by The Daily Beast, Mark Penn and Democratic pollster Doug Schoen were advising Trump from the very start.

So it was a deliberate attempt and a move to undermine the Blue Wave.

The two often appear on Tucker Carlson, Sean "Softball" Hannity and Fox & Friends, three programs that Trump watches.

Not once Penn or Schoen mentioned their ties to Trump.

Penn's columns in The Hill routinely attack the president's political and legal adversaries. In his most recent column, published last Monday, Penn went after federal prosecutors in New York and Washington who have targeted the president and his associates.

But neither that column nor any other he's written has revealed Penn's past business ties to Trump. Nor has that biographical detail been mentioned in the frequent TV appearances he's made on Fox News, in which he often attacks the president's critics. The Hill did not return a request for comment and Fox News declined to comment.

Instead, it is Penn's time working on behalf of President Bill Clinton during the Ken Starr investigations that is offered as proof that he brings not only an unbiased take on the current political debates, but the experience of someone who worked on the other side of the ledger.

The disclosure on his columns in The Hill, where he has published numerous pieces going after Special Counsel Robert Mueller, notes that "He served as pollster and adviser to President Clinton from 1995 to 2000, including during Clinton's impeachment." A Politico Magazine profile noted that Penn was "a member of a small club of Democrats in Washington shaped by Whitewater and the independent counsel investigation it spawned." A June 2018 Wall Street Journal column that focused on Penn's outspoken criticism of the federal investigation into Russian election meddling, was headlined, "A Democrat Dissents on the Mueller Probe." In an Aug. 24 Fox Business interview, host Maria Bartiromo called Penn a "straight shooter" who "used to work for the Clintons."

Doug Schoen is a fixture on Sean "Softball" Hanntiy's right wing carnival.

In an email statement to The Daily Beast, Penn said that there is a reason his past relationship with Trump has not been revealed in his various media appearances. It’s because it wasn’t really a relationship at all.

"Thirty years ago, [my partner] Doug Schoen brought in Trump and the Trump organization as a minor client to a firm neither of us has been associated with for nearly a decade. I never met his then client, Donald Trump, and, as I recall, Schoen had trouble collecting payment for his work, and had to settle largely for shuttle tickets that then became worthless," Penn said. "Resurfacing this old news is a off-base attempt to find some irrelevant link from 30 years ago to work I didn’t do for a firm I’m no longer with, and that is not in any way related to my positions against independent counsels or as a moderate Democrat that have been consistent for over 40 years."

"If you have to go back some 30 years to try to find some link, that’s because there is none," he added. "I have no relationship with Donald Trump nor the Trump Organization."

Penn & Schoen's history with Trump does extend beyond the brief consideration of the world's largest building. According to Gwenda Blair's book, Donald Trump: The Candidate, Trump had the firm, which is no longer in existence, conduct polling for him as he contemplated making a run for the presidency in 1988. Blair wrote that the firm found Trump with a 75 percent name recognition among likely Republican voters. Reached for comment, Blair said she didn't have access to the survey. But a former member of the Penn & Schoen team confirmed it was done.