RNC to Lead Trumps Offensive Against Comey

I guess the truth is immaterial.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rnc-to-lead-trumps-offensive-against-comey-1496877520

RNC to Lead Trump’s Offensive Against Comey
Republican National Committee to handle much of the response to former FBI director’s testimony

By Michael C. Bender and Peter Nicholas
June 7, 2017 7:18 p.m. ET



President Donald Trump is outsourcing much of the response to ex-FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday to the Republican National Committee, leaning on a team of about 60 staffers to lead a political offensive aimed at Democrats as well as the nation’s former top law enforcement officer.

The White House press team will also refer more substantive questions to the president’s outside counsel, Marc Kasowitz, as they have done since the New York-based attorney’s hiring was announced last week.

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Mr. Trump may also take charge of his own communications, too. While advisers and attorneys have asked the president to tone down his social media, he has continued to make frequent posts on Twitter.

“It’s not like someone who has an addiction that they can’t stop,” said one person who has advised Mr. Trump. “He believes in his heart of hearts that he’s the best communicator and it’s worked out for him in the past.”

The RNC said it has lined up a host of surrogates to appear on national and local television and radio to support the president, and has a database of research on how Democrats have criticized Mr. Comey in the past.

The party committee’s war room includes several young political operatives clipping videos from television and alerting the team to breaking news from a windowless room inside the party’s Washington headquarters,

“It’s the RNC’s top priority to support and defend the White House,” Ryan Mahoney, RNC’s communications director, said. “We’ve built a robust operation to ensure we’re doing that effectively.”

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