Josh Raffel, senior communications aide, is leaving the White House
Source: The Washington Post
Josh Raffel, a senior communications official in the White House who has been a go-to crisis manager and worked closely with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, is leaving the administration, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Raffel's departure within the next two months comes as Kushner is under increasing scrutiny for his inability to secure a complete FBI background check for his security clearance, and with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation intensifying.
Raffel, who joined the White House last April to help run communications for Kushner's Office of American Innovation, had become a point person internally for some of the most sensitive matters, as well as the Middle East peace process. He functions as a spokesman for Ivanka Trump and Kushner, the president's daughter and son-in-law, but his portfolio is far more expansive, including foreign and domestic policies and day-to-day crisis management. Last fall, he was quietly promoted to deputy communications director, and worked closely with communications director Hope Hicks, one of the president's most trusted advisers.
Raffel earned a reputation among reporters for his voluble and fervent defenses of his administration charges, and came to be respected within the West Wing for his strategic instincts.
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