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Thu Jan 31, 2019, 12:39 PM Jan 2019

Trump Lawyer Takes Communications Role Parrying Congressional Oversight

As a deputy press secretary, Steven Groves will help develop White House talking points and field press inquiries involving congressional oversight



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Trump Lawyer Takes Communications Role Parrying Congressional Oversight
Steven Groves to join press office in job developing talking points, fielding media inquiries

By Peter Nicholas
Updated Jan. 31, 2019 10:40 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON—The White House is assigning one of its lawyers to a new communications role to handle the stepped-up oversight coming from Democratic-led congressional committees, among other issues, a White House official said Thursday.

Steven Groves, now an assistant special counsel in the White House, will become a deputy press secretary under a broader realignment of duties in President Trump’s press and communications operations, the official said.

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When you need a lawyer as your communications liaison gratuitous Jan 2019 #1

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1. When you need a lawyer as your communications liaison
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 01:37 PM
Jan 2019

Folks might be forgiven for wondering why the White House requires a lawyer to conduct routine communications with Congress?

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