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Allen West
Right-wing pundit and columnist, NRA board member
Allen West is a former U.S. Army officer, one-term Republican congressman from Florida, and Fox News contributor. He's currently a senior fellow at the conservative Media Research Center and NRA board member. He has a long history of pushing smears, lies, and incendiary rhetoric, especially against Muslims.