Explosive new reporting reveals that Trump's senior advisor Kellyanne Conway sold her company with the help of Leonard Leo — a right-wing activist whose handpicked Supreme Court candidates were eventually selected by Trump and confirmed to the bench.
dark money groups. The sale to firm Creative Response Concepts Inc. was worth between $1 million and $5 million, according to analyses of the sale.
Around the same time, as one of Trump’s close advisers, Conway was one of the most prominent backers of Leo’s handpicked candidates for the Supreme Court. That advocacy turned into results for Leo and his dark money network, as Trump nominees Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were all on a list of Supreme Court candidates that Leo had prepared.
Those candidates were chosen by Leo after fears circulated among the Republican Party that Trump, who was once pro-abortion and a registered Democrat, would be less radically conservative than the party wanted. Along with Conway’s advocacy, Leo was able to shape the Supreme Court into
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