Trump Lawyer Takes Communications Role Parrying Congressional Oversight
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.
.. Mr. Groves had been working under Emmet Flood, the White House special counsel dealing with the Russia investigation.
Before coming to the White House, he worked at the Heritage Foundation and the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
“He speaks law, which will help,” the White House official said.