hatchet man

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In 2009, Hilary Mantel published “Wolf Hall,” her first novel in a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith’s son who became King Henry VIII’s political fixer, hatchet man and architect of England’s religious Reformation.

From Los Angeles Times

Stone's work as a political hatchet man goes all the way back to his time employed by President Richard Nixon.

From Salon

Trump Jr. is the president's son and Kushner is his son-in-law, while Corsi is a notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist and Stone is a political hatchet man who is alleged to have ties to Russia himself.

From Salon

One of the many unusual things about Trump, said political communications scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson, is that he is his own “hatchet man,” unleashing attacks from the presidency’s bully pulpit.

From Washington Post

He expected Sessions to be his Roy Cohn, his personal bodyguard and hatchet man, as attorney general.

From Salon