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Kushner and McDaniel bring back Katie Walsh Shields to offer strategic advice

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In recent days, Jared Kushner has brought back 2016 Republican National Committee chief of staff Katie Walsh Shields to offer strategic advice in the RNC’s collaboration with the Trump campaign, according to two senior administration officials and a senior campaign official briefed on the move.

  • A senior administration official said Kushner made the decision in conjunction with RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.

Why it matters: Walsh played a key role in 2016 in ensuring that the RNC and Trump campaign were efficiently sharing voter targeting data and working in tandem in their get-out-the-vote efforts. 

  • Several campaign advisers have told me that they believe this coordination between the campaign and the RNC has not worked well in recent months, especially following Brad Parscale’s demotion as campaign manager.
  • Walsh declined to comment. Continue reading.

Trump’s campaign manager gave a paid speech in Romania, prompting ethics concerns

BRUSSELS — The day before special counsel Robert S. Mueller III submitted his report to the Justice Department last month, Washington was abuzz with what revelations it might contain about contacts between the 2016 Trump campaign and foreign officials. But President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was an ocean away, delivering a paid speech to a room full of Romanian politicians and policy elites.

Legal analysts said Parscale’s visit broke no laws so long as he does not do any lobbying in the United States on behalf of foreign clients without registering. But ethics experts said any money changing hands between foreign citizens and campaign officials creates an obstacle course of potential risks. And some ethics lawyers worried that Parscale’s engagement — which received little attention outside Romania at the time — is a sign that the 2016 Trump campaign’s freewheeling approach to foreign contacts may be carrying over to its 2020 successor.

“The appearances are terrible,” said Richard Painter, a chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush. “You would certainly think that a campaign manager would not take money from foreign nationals in this political environment.

View the complete April 30 article by Michael Birnbaum and Ioana Burtea on The Washington Post  website here.

‘It’s a s**tshow’: Trump aides reportedly prepare to revolt against his 2020 campaign manager as his approval plummets

President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager may be in serious danger of losing his job, according to a new report from Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman.

Brad Parscale, who has little connection to Republican Party politics and only joined the Trump campaign originally because of his work on digital strategy for the Trump Organization, is now the target of people in the president’s orbit who are worried about his re-election chances.

One sign that Parscale isn’t up to the job: On Monday, he reportedly showed Trump a skewed poll that he misleadingly characterized as demonstrating that, despite all the contrary evidence, the government shutdown was a political winner for the president.

View the complete January 30 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.