Karl Rove is a U.S. political strategist, best known as the senior strategist on the George W. Bush presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004. He appears in the source corpus in connection with a 2008 contract from John Rendon’s firm to rehabilitate the U.S. press reputation of Indonesian general Joko Widodo, who was banned from the United States on human-rights grounds. John Kiriakou was hired as good cop; Rove as bad cop.[1][2]
Karl Rove
U.S. political strategist; manager of George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns; in 2008 engaged with John Kiriakou and John Rendon on the unsuccessful effort to rehabilitate the U.S. press reputation of Indonesian general Joko Widodo, who was banned from the United States on human-rights grounds.
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- ↑ Dalton Fischer Podcast, 2025-08-31 — 3:52:56 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Dalton Fischer Podcast, 2025-08-31 — 3:53:27 on YouTube · Transcript
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