hatchet man

Example Sentences

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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

Now he and his team have learned, and Trump has appointed someone in Barr who is a Washington insider, knows the Justice Department and is able to operate as the president’s hatchet man.

From Salon

A former federal elections commissioner and a partner at Jones Day, a powerhouse law firm, McGahn was meant to be the hatchet man who would take out Mueller.

From The Guardian

The lawyer refused and said he preferred to resign rather than be the president’s hatchet man.

From Washington Times

Playing Trump’s hatchet man at the Kavanaugh confirmation clearly paid off for Graham, and with McCain lying soundly in the grave, their friendship could lie there too.

From The Guardian