22 Facts About Tom Fitton

Thomas J Fitton was born on May 30,1968 and is an American conservative activist and the president of Judicial Watch.

Tom Fitton is the current president of the Council for National Policy, taking up the role in February 2022.

Tom Fitton is prominent for criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election; he has said that the investigation was a "coup" against US President Donald Trump and called for it to be shut down.

In 2022, researchers found that Tom Fitton was the third-most prolific purveyor of election misinformation on Twitter during the late months of 2020.

Tom Fitton rejects the scientific consensus on climate change; under his tenure, Judicial Watch has filed lawsuits against climate scientists.

Tom Fitton was born on May 30,1968, in West Nyack, New York.

Tom Fitton's father was a manager at a supermarket and his mother was a nurse.

Tom Fitton graduated from Clarkstown High School South in 1986.

Tom Fitton has a bachelor's degree in English from George Washington University.

Tom Fitton has been the president of Judicial Watch since August 1998.

Tom Fitton was officially appointed on November 10,2020, and his term ends on July 29,2025.

Tom Fitton rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.

The site was defended by Tom Fitton against calls for advertisers to drop them for advertising.

Tom Fitton is described in the indictment as having written a speech for Trump prior to the election in which Trump would falsely attribute his loss to voter fraud.

Tom Fitton has referred to the Mueller probe as a "coup" against Trump.

Trump retweeted Tom Fitton's remarks about a coup; PolitiFact rated the assertion that the Mueller probe was a coup as "pants-on-fire" false.

When Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, pleaded guilty to crimes brought to light by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe in December 2018, Tom Fitton dismissed the importance of the crimes.

Tom Fitton criticized Dr Anthony Fauci, the White House's leading epidemiology expert, and amplified right-wing conspiracy theories about Fauci.

At an August 2020 meeting of the Council for National Policy, Tom Fitton claimed that people on the American left are planning to delay the 2020 election tally until January 20,2021, to allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to become acting president.

Tom Fitton later added that "it could cause civil war".

Trump instead took the advice of Tom Fitton, who told the former president he was legally entitled to keep the documents.

Tom Fitton received the American Conservative Union's 'Defender of the Constitution Award' during its annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2015.