Todd Blodgett

Todd Blodgett (born September 10, 1960) is an American conservative pro-Donald Trump Republican writer, campaign strategist and sales/marketing consultant who served on President Ronald Reagan's White House Staff (1985–87) and worked for the Republican National Committee and the FBI.

His work as a full-time, paid FBI confidential Informant has been noted in articles and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, FOX News, NBC News, USA Today, The Forward, The HuffPost, NorthIowaToday.com, CBS News, The Globe-Gazette and other newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises, Inc., Democracy Now!, RealClearPolitics, the National Legal & Policy Center, News.Com.AU (a Sydney, Australia website), The Times of Israel, The Cape Cod Times, Bleeding Heartland, The Daily KOS, Metro US, O.C. Weekly, KXAN-TV , The Des Moines Register, The Southern Poverty Law Center, newswire and numerous other periodicals and websites.

Early life and education Blodgett was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in Mason City, a northern Iowa community in Cerro Gordo county. His father, Dr. Gary B. Blodgett, was a prominent orthodontist and businessman who was highly active in Republican politics and local civics who later served in the Iowa Legislature (1992–2001) as the deputy majority leader.

Blodgett attended Mason City schools until 1975 when he began high school at Shattuck-Saint Mary’s in Faribault, Minnesota. In 1972, Blodgett met and become friends with J. Neil ‘Moon’ Reagan, whose brother was California governor and future president Ronald Reagan.

While he was a student at Shattuck-Saint Mary’s, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Political activities and professional career/positions

Blodgett kept in contact with Ronald Reagan and between 1976 and 1980, and met with him several times whenever the candidate appeared in Iowa. Upon his graduation from Drake University in 1983 (B.A. in journalism), U.S. Senator Roger W. Jepsen [R-IA] hired Blodgett as his re-election campaign’s deputy finance director. Washington, DC: White House staff, presidential campaign, and the FBI. Following Jepsen’s defeat in November, 1984; Blodgett joined the Reagan-Bush Presidential Inaugural Committee staff. From 1985 to 1987, he served on the staff of Reagan’s White House Press Office and was, when hired, the youngest Reagan-Bush White House staff member. Blodgett in Nov., 1987 resigned from the White House Press Office staff to work part-time for then-vice president George Bush’s PAC,

Past connections to the radical far-right and later business ventures The FBI became interested in Blodgett because his advertising agency’s clients included Liberty Lobby, a white nationalist, neo-Nazi organization. Blodgett in 1998 became the majority stockholder of Resistance Records, which then was the world’s largest, most profitable neo-Nazi record label.

During his years as an FBI informant, Blodgett monitored notable American and British far-right figures, including David Duke, William L. Pierce, Don Black, Dr. Ed Fields, Paul Hall, Jr., Rev. Richard Butler, Chris Temple, Willis Carto, Mark Cotterill, Steven Cartwright, Richard Barnbrook, John Tyndall, Nick Griffin, Michael Collins Piper, David Irving, Mark Weber, Greg Raven, Gregory Douglas, Tom Metzger, Bradley Smith, Sam Dickson, and numerous others. When contacted by a reporter from The Washington Post who asked about the meeting, Blodgett acknowledged he had hosted the controversial Pierce.

A subsequent article in The Washington Post angered some members, who urged its board of governors to oust Blodgett. After refusing to voluntarily resign his membership he was expelled and later sued. This noteworthy legal case, ‘Blodgett v. the University Club of D.C.’ is taught in law schools and regularly cited by judges, professors and legal journalists — as case law, pertaining to the rights of private clubs and those of their members.

Drug addiction, recovery, and later business career Prior to working for the FBI, Blodgett had developed an addiction to crack cocaine. The HuffPost, RealClearPolitics and other publications and websites. His 2021 memoir, Republican Crackhead featured his drug issues, FBI work, political career, White House years and recovery from addiction.

Todd Blodgett today divides his time between in Clear Lake, Iowa and Tyler, Texas. He serves as a director of the Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, based in Mason City, and owns a summer home at the Outing Club, a private entity based in Clear Lake, Iowa, where his family has held membership since 1972. He is an NRA Life member, is interested in firearms and known to legally carry a gun.