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The Hill reports: David French said Tuesday that someone who identified themself as affiliated with Donald Trump’s campaign tried to “intimidate” him while he was considering an independent presidential bid. “It was probably one of the more ham-handed attempts at intimidation out of the Trump operation,” French, a constitutional lawyer, said during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” French, who …

In his own words at the National Review: Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States. I gave it serious thought — as a pretty darn obscure lawyer, writer, and veteran — …

As we all just learned, Bill Kristol’s mystery independent presidential candidate has turned out to be David French, a virtually unknown former lawyer for the viciously anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom. Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro is kind of thrilled. He writes: If there’s going to be a third party candidate, nobody would make me happier than David French. French, for …

Bloomberg reports: Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristol’s efforts to recruit an independent presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have told Bloomberg Politics that the person Kristol has in mind is David French—whose name the editor of the Weekly Standard floated in the current issue of the magazine. French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. …