Joshua Treviño

Joshua Treviño is an American political commentator and former United States Army officer. He is the chief transformation officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.[1] He was a George W. Bush administration speech writer and was a 2006 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute.[2] He was vice president for public policy at the Pacific Research Institute.[3] He is a graduate of Furman University.

Between 2008 and 2011, Treviño was a consultant for an agency with Malaysian business interests that paid him to write a blog called Malaysia Matters. Treviño earned $389,724.70 under the arrangement.[4] In addition to his blogging activities, Treviño organized the generation and placement of opinion pieces by ten other opinion writers who went on to write pieces about Malaysia.[4] Outlets in which their work appeared included the Huffington Post, the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Times, National Review, and RedState.[4] When questioned in 2011 by Politico about whether Malaysian interests funded his activities, Treviño flatly denied it: "I was never on any 'Malaysian entity's payroll,' and I resent your assumption that I was."[4]

In 2013, Treviño filed a retroactive statement with the Foreign Registration office of the Department of Justice. He explained the late filing by stating that he was unaware of the requirement.[4] Britain's The Guardian banned him from writing as a result of having failed to disclose his Malaysian ties; a lawyer advised him to contact the Justice Department about filing.[5] Treviño stated, "They let me do a retroactive filing and that was that."[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Joshua S. Treviño". Fox News. 2026-02-23. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  2. ^ 2006 Biodata Archived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, Claremont; accessed September 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Wildflowers Farewell". National Review. 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  4. ^ a b c d e Gray, Rosie (March 1, 2013). "Covert Malaysian Campaign Touched A Wide Range of American Media". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
  5. ^ "The Guardian backtracks from hiring Joshua Treviño", NY Times; accessed September 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Lach, Eric (March 1, 2013). "Conservative Pundits Wrote Malaysian Propaganda". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
  7. ^ Weinger, Mackenzie (March 1, 2013). "Joshua Trevino's Malay Payday". Politico. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
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