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Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new function simply two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving different purchasers on the agency the place he nonetheless works, based on two individuals briefed on the matter.
Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.N.C. employed in March primarily due to his data of how finest to make use of current laws to a marketing campaign’s or a candidate’s benefit, has been below assault since quickly after he arrived on the committee.
A spokeswoman for the Trump marketing campaign and the R.N.C. didn’t reply to an electronic mail searching for remark. Mr. Spies wouldn’t remark.
His previous work — together with for the presidential marketing campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the tremendous PAC supporting Jeb Bush in opposition to Donald J. Trump through the 2016 Republican main and Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee — was highlighted for Mr. Trump by individuals searching for to oust Mr. Spies.
That softened the bottom to eliminate him, based on the 2 individuals briefed on the matter. But in the previous few weeks, the truth that Mr. Spies’s agency — from which he didn’t take a depart when he accepted the R.N.C. job — nonetheless has ties to Mr. DeSantis grew to become a specific level of concern for Trump officers, the 2 individuals stated.
Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Trump not too long ago met for the primary time to restore their relationship after their bruising main battle. The Trump staff, which is being out-raised by President Biden’s staff, hopes that Mr. DeSantis will help increase cash. But the specifics of what that work would possibly appear to be grew to become a difficulty, resulting in considerations that Mr. Spies has conflicts, the 2 individuals stated.
