Thomas J. Fitton, born on May 30, 1968, in West Nyack, New York, is the president and chairman of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group focused on government transparency and litigation against perceived corruption in federal agencies. He has led the organization since 2003, overseeing high-profile transparency lawsuits. Fitton earned a B.A. in English from George Washington University. Before joining Judicial Watch, he worked for organizations including the Leadership Institute, Accuracy in Media, and the International Policy Forum, and served as a talk radio and television host and analyst, appearing on America’s Voice and National Empowerment Television. His father was a supermarket manager and his mother a nurse. Fitton is the author of several books critiquing government corruption and left-wing policies, including The Corruption Chronicles: Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government (2014), Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies (2016), and A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack On American Freedom (2020). A prominent conservative voice associated with pro-Trump commentary, he is a long-term senior member of the Council for National Policy and received the 'Defender of the Constitution Award' from the American Conservative Union in 2015. Fitton has been involved in various controversies, including criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Donald Trump as a 'coup'; being identified by Just Security in 2022 as the third-most prolific spreader of election misinformation on Twitter during late 2020; rejecting scientific consensus on climate change and leading Judicial Watch lawsuits against climate scientists; promoting claims of widespread voter fraud, such as alleging hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2018 midterms and making false claims about Iowa voter rolls; being named as unindicted co-conspirator #1 in the 2023 Georgia state indictment of Donald Trump and 18 others for efforts to overturn the 2020 election, accused of drafting a speech for Trump falsely attributing the election loss to voter fraud (status: ongoing); advising Trump on retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago; supporting Breitbart News against advertiser boycotts; and calling for reopening the U.S. economy during the COVID-19 pandemic while criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci.