Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Truth? Nah. Reality? Who cares. Cheung is obviously on a ladder, who has no problem
at all saying whatever his client wants him to say. In a fashion his client enjoys himself.

Steven Cheung (political advisor)
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He was involved in the UFC practice of banning reporters critical of the organization from live events.
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Cheung was involved in a statement disavowing support from the Ku Klux Klan and a white supremacist newspaper, who endorsed Trump’s campaign. He said, “Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form. This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign.” [13]

After Trump’s victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Cheung was named as an advisor to the Presidential Transition team.[14][15][16] According to media reports, he was at one point considered for the role of White House Press Secretary.[17] That job ultimately went to Sean Spicer.
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He was part of a team tasked with helping nominate and confirm Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court. Amid controversies about his past relating to plagiarism in his book The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Gorsuch was eventually confirmed to the Supreme Court by the United States Senate by a 54–45 vote.[19] Shortly after Gorsuch’s confirmation, Cheung was announced to a new role within the White House.[20]

On August 16, 2017, he was appointed as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Response.[21] He then worked on the passage of Trump’s tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.[22] The bill successfully passed Congress and Trump signed it into law on December 22, 2017.[23]

According to the book Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington, Cheung, along with three others, were referred to as “the killers” in the White House by Jared Kushner and Stephen Bannon. They were considered[by whom?] “innovative and action oriented”.[24]

On June 11, 2018, Politico reported Cheung left the White House amid a contentious period with Chief of Staff John F. Kelly making changes to Trump’s White House communications staff. Amid leaks and infighting, Kelly overhauled the communications team, which led to additional departures.[19] New York Times White House journalist Maggie Haberman reported on CNN that “Cheung's name had been on several lists going back to 2017 of people who could be on the chopping block. And it has been surprising every single time. He was on the campaign. He was seen as a high performer. He was one of the hardest workers. He was involved, from the White House end, in the Gorsuch nomination coms effort, and he was involved in the tax reform coms effort” and he was “one of the more respected members of [the communications] staff on the campaign.”[25][26] It was later revealed that Cheung’s annual White House salary was $131,000.[27] Cheung later appeared in a contentious interview with CNN on June 28, 2018 where critics accused him of politicizing the confirmation process of the United States Supreme Court.[28]

Trump 2020 campaign

Politico reported that President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign retained the services of the firm Solgence, which is owned and operated by Cheung.[29] As part of the 2020 campaign, Cheung worked on putting together the Republican National Convention in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.[30]

After the 2020 US presidential election, in which Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, Cheung was involved in the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the election. Despite Trump’s baseless claims, according to experts, there has been no evidence of election fraud.[31][32][33][34]

Post Trump presidency

Cheung was named the spokesman of the Trump 2024 presidential campaign. After Trump was criticized in October 2023 for his statement that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," echoing language of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler, Cheung responded:

That's a normal phrase that is used in everyday life – in books, television, movies, and in news articles. For anyone to think that is racist or xenophobic is living in an alternate reality consumed with non-sensical outrage."[35]

After Trump was criticized in November 2023 for using language of fascist dictators by referring to his political opponents as "vermin," Cheung said:

Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.[36]

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MAGA Inc.

As of 2023, Cheung was the communications director of Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC.[41][42][43][44][45][46][47]

Non-political work

Cheung has written opinion articles for USA Today, Fox News, and the Washington Examiner.[48][49][50]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)

Crook conservative to the core.