romney, the allegation is that frank van der sloot is being singled out. it's hurting his business. people are saying he's anti-gay when he isn't. barack obama put frank van der sloot on an enemy's list. he was targeted for retribution. >> you say i'm an honest businessman. what happened to your business in lieu of that? what happened? >> when first saw the list, i thought, this is scary. within hours of that then all kinds of things started to appear on the internet suggesting all kinds of accusations against me, rewriting history about all kinds of things the i was supposedly guilty of. >> did it impact your business directly? >> it did right away. the first day phone calls started coming in. we lost a couple hundred customers. >> as soon as president obama put him on this enemies list his business suffered. that's the scandal here. the president targets a private citizen and the private citizen's entire livelihood threatened. flashing red lights. that whole line, the private citizen's livelihood is being affected, his private life is being pried into. th

we invited frank van der sloot to join us a number of times, he declined.eak with members of my stap off the record, but would not agree to speak on the record or come on the air. mr. van der sloot provided us one other statement regarding his involvement in the homo sexual ads. you can find it posted at our blog. mr. van der sloot, if you are watching you are still very, very well congresswoman to con on this show. you have my number. cocktail moment coming up. >>> time for "your business" entrepreneurs of the week. they own whitings food that run food concessions on the santa cruz board walk. they employ hundreds of employees. managing this generation means you have to speak their language. watch "your business" sunday morning on msnbc. [ male announcer ] with six indulgently layered desserts, all at 150 calories or less, there's definitely a temptations for you. unless you're one of those people who doesn't like delicious stuff. temptations. it's the first jell-o that's just for adults. aspirin? i don't really know what it's for. isn't aspirin like a vag

that basic diad is something that frank van der sloot deals differently than most people. ng reporter at that local newspaper in idaho. when people have blogged about mr. van der sloot they have found themselves facing copyright infringement lawsuits for posting the photo of him that's publicly displayed on his company's website. in 2007 this leftie leaning idaho blog posted a blog entry critical of mr. van der sloot. the blog said they received a letter from his lawyers telling them to take the blog post down within 24 hours or they would find themselves sued. they did take the post. they did fwhoont to be sued. when they posted a copy of the lawyer's letter in order to explain why they had taken down the blog post, mr. van der sloot sued them. sued them for copyright infri e infringement for posting the letter. when we reported on him in february, when he reported op his and his politics and his role, surprise. we got contacted by him and his lawyers. first they requested that we take down the web version of the segment that we did. they asked that we remove it from the i

he may or may not be the only one of the his name is frank van der sloot.eo of a company out in idaho. this guy donated a million dollars to the super pac that supports governor romney. van der sloot recently discovering a private investigator was digging through his personal divorce records at a courthouse. why would they be doing that? joining me now, is the report who broke this story. kimberly strassel is columnist for "the wall street journal." kim, thank you very much for being here. you've been on this from the beginning. so-called enemy's list by the barack obama re-election campaign, described this guy and others like him, wealthy individuals with less than rep pewable records and van der sloot combative, bitter foe of the gay rights institute. michael wolff went to the courthouse in van der sloot's hometown and did what? >> hi, megyn. he contacted the courthouse and he was asking for, as you mentioned the divorce records for mr. van der sloot. also a case, and he later expanded on his request, a couple of cases that dealt with business disputes, t

then there is frank van der sloot who made billions on dietary supplemental, cleaning products and mitt romney's national finance co-chair, a devout mormon and virulent anti-gay activist. finally, the man of the hour joe ricketts owner of the chicago cubs, founder of tdameritrade, allegedly going to fund anti-obama ads featuring jeremy refwrite. romney says he repeated 80s the plan. earlier today i spoke with the bill yon air -- i spoke about the bill yon air boys club with of washington, d.c.'s ultimate insiders. norm ornstein and he is an author of "it's worse than he looks." i asked if he was surprised that billion abe john strictts was planning to fund anti-obama attack ads. >> i know him. i have worked with him. he is a conservative guy but i wouldn't have thought of him as moving to this level. it tells me something, that we have now descended to the point where people are caught up in the tribunal politics and will say and do anything to get that. >> yeah. he has repudiated his planarticular plan but he did put out $10 million to offer, to inviteessentially, i think, guys, plans,

one they name is frank van der sloot who's an idaho businessman who gave $100 million. are you worried the money is going to stop coming in as some of these mega donors see that all of a sudden it's becoming very, very public? >> there's certainly an effort underfoot by the obama campaign and those on the left to embarrass conservative donors. this is a donor to the romney campaign. they had someone looking into his divorce records. >> to be share, the conservative center for american freedom has also been going after some liberal donors. they've gone at katzenberg and corzine. it works both ways. >> i know there's definitely an effort to try to intimidate dough no, sir. that's why a donor has to make the decision whether or not they want to be cast into the limelight. many of them don't. in 120u our biggest donor had a front-page profile of him on the front page of "the new york times" and there are a lot doef nors not interested in that kind of skpoexposure. they want to work for change. that's why they get into groups. >> jonathan collegio, thanks for coming on the p

frank van der sloot, an investigator with the political opposition research firm, started digging up der sloot's old divorce records after he was named on that list by the campaign for the president's re-election. "the wall street journal" started looking into it, and kimberly strassle is the columnist who has been following this from the beginning. thank you very much for being here. so you spoke with mr. van der sloot, but the we're is the other eight who are on the list because these guys have been notoriously quiet since being identified and called out in less than flattering terms. have you found out about any efforts to look into anybody else's background? >> not so far. there's actually seven. although, what's interesting here is at least one of them wrote a letter to our newspaper after the first article about this came out just talking about the list, and he actually said that what was amazing to him is that he had managed to get on giis list even though he had ven money to both republicanses and to democrats. so it's a very curious standard that the obama campaign has chose

the wall street journal", they have written about a fella out in idaho falls by the name of frank van der sloot he gave -- there he is right there. he runs a business out there and last august, he gave a million dollars to the mitt romney super pac called restore our future. then three weeks ago, barack obama campaign web site called keeping g.o.p. honest took the extraordinary step of naming some public citizens who had donated money to the opposition and assailed them for that. they were accused of being wealthy individuals with less than reputable records and then a week later, for this guy, apparently some -- it sounds like a private investigator, went to his county courthouse looking for records about his divorce. so it looks like the campaign is digging up dirt on people who are giving money to the other side. >> so let's listen to him. he spoke with greta on friday night. >>> when this list came out and there were only eight people on it. i was one of them. so when i first learned that i was on his enemies list, that really worried me at first, i'll tell you. and my first anticipation wa

. >> yeah, his name is frank van der sloot. he was on grert last night.e was added to this enemy's list of sorts. take a listen. >> when this list came out -- >> regardless of how you feel about all of the super pac money and all of the money being handed out by dig donors, the citizens united case. obviously both sides of this issue, of course. free speech. contribute to a campaign however you feel fit to. your name put up by the opposition's web site in some sort of laundry list. reminds me of 1950's hollywood scare tactics. >> you know it sin tim accommodation. obviously the goal here is to it keep these large donors from giving money to shame them from giving money to the romney camp. now, some have suggested that if you give a million dollars, as van der sloot did to any campaign or super pac that you are therefore opening yourself up to this kind of spotlight. myself i completely disagree with that notion. you are not a public figure. you are not opening yourself up to any of that. >> are they still private citizens or should they be under scrutiny