Bradford M. "Brad" Freeman is an American businessman and conservative political fundraiser.
Freeman was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, and attended Stanford University on a football scholarship.
[1] Upon graduation, Freeman served six years in the National Guard and began a career as an investment banker for the firm Dean Witter Reynolds.
[4] In the 2016 film Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk, Freeman said that after raising and contributing millions of dollars to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he was expecting a government appointment such as "a chance to run the CIA," but Bush instead offered him his cat.
[5] According to friends, Bush did arrange for Freeman a membership of Augusta National Golf Club.