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Michael Anton
Michael Anton | |
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.jpg) Anton in 2023 | |
| Director of Policy Planning | |
Designate | |
| Assuming office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump (elect) |
| Succeeding | Salman Ahmed |
| Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications | |
| In office February 8, 2017 – April 8, 2018 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Ben Rhodes |
| Succeeded by | Garrett Marquis[1][2] Sarah Tinsley[1][2] |
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of California, Davis (BA) St. John's College, Annapolis (MALA) Claremont Graduate University (MA) |
| This article is part of a series on |
| Conservatism in the United States |
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Michael Anton (born 1969) is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was a senior national security official in the first Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election", an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.[3][4]
Anton was Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council under Trump.[5] He is a former speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch,[6] Rudy Giuliani, and Condoleezza Rice, and worked as director of communications at the investment bank Citigroup and as managing director of investing firm BlackRock.[7][3]
- ^ a b Vogel, Kenneth P. (May 21, 2018). "Meet the Members of the 'Shadow N.S.C.' Advising John Bolton". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 11, 2021. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ a b Collins, Kaitlan (May 29, 2018). "Bolton adds two loyalists to the National Security Council". CNN. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ a b Nguyen, Tina (February 23, 2017). "Machiavelli in the White House: Is This the Most Powerful Man in Trump's Administration?". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
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Maas2017was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Johnson, Eliana; Stokols, Eli (February 7, 2017). "What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read". Politico. Archived from the original on April 23, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
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