david brock leads correct the record, a super pac that is spending millions to support hillary clinton and try to torment donald trump. | ap photo by mike allen 10/06/16 06:00 am edt <u+201c>putin & trump <u+2026> political bromance is brewing<u+201d> <u+2014> with the two men surrounded by floating red hearts <u+2014> is the cover story of the debut issue of the american enquirer, a flashy, tacky tabloid with the slogan <u+201c>news that makes america great.<u+201d> the 16-pager is a project of david brock and his correct the record, a super pac that is spending millions to support hillary clinton and try to torment donald trump. story continued below artwork inside includes pinocchio, a mushroom cloud, richard nixon, donald duck (<u+201c>the donald is ducking questions about taxes<u+201d>) and the logo of the real national enquirer. brock plans to send autographed copies to trump at trump tower, and to longtime trump adviser roger stone. a flippable digital version is posted at www.americanenquirer.org . <u+201c>trump wants a tabloid campaign, and he would be a tabloid president,<u+201d> brad woodhouse, president of correct the record (ctr), told politico. <u+201c>so we said: <u+2018>let<u+2019>s make a tabloid.<u+2019><u+201d> 2016 by kyle cheney and steven shepard woodhouse said the project <u+201c>represents somewhat of a closing argument for ctr about trump,<u+201d> and said the enquirer was <u+201c>david<u+2019>s brainchild, as a way to push back on the politics of scandal and personal destruction.<u+201d> <u+201c>we were thinking of some way to give lift to some of the stories that have been reported, but are part and parcel of who donald trump really is,<u+201d> woodhouse added. correct the record is printing a few thousand copies, mainly for distribution to reporters and the group<u+2019>s supporters. the tabloid will be given to journalists at sunday<u+2019>s debate in st. louis, and will be sent to campaign travelers and embeds, plus anchors, producers, editorial and opinion writers. <u+201c>we<u+2019>ll make a big push in the st. louis media market before the debate, so local news coverage of <u+2018>tabloid trump<u+2019> greets him and his team when they arrive this weekend,<u+201d> woodhouse said. <u+201c>we will email digital copies of this to hundreds of thousands of americans and promote it to millions more on our social platforms.<u+201d> woodhouse said his group may publish additional issues, perhaps with a theme like trump comments about women or minorities: <u+201c>obviously, we<u+2019>re leaving a lot of stuff off the table.<u+201d> correct the record has raised roughly $8 million since it became a super pac in may 2015, and has about 45 employees and full-time consultants. jennifer granholm, the former michigan governor, is senior adviser. the group<u+2019>s efforts have included pushback on the benghazi and email issues. before clinton launched her campaign, correct the record was responsible for clinton<u+2019>s self-research project. other correct the record websites include www.benghazicommittee.com , www.trumplies.com and www.trumpproject.org . by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
enquiring minds: david brock goes tabloid on trump - politico
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