3/8/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Bill Shine is the fifth person to learn that it’s not easy to serve as communications director to a president who doesn’t think he needs one. Trump on Friday [3-8-19] accepted the resignation of Shine, a former Fox News executive who had spent just nine months on the job, severing his most visible link to the conservative network — but likely not changing his relationship with the Trump-friendly outlet. Shine will join the president’s reelection campaign as a ‘senior adviser’ — a role that will allow him to spend ‘more time with my family,’ he said in a statement Friday, suggesting he will take on something less than a senior leadership role in the campaign. His sudden departure came as a surprise to several White House aides as well as to a number of officials working on the president’s campaign, several of whom learned he would join the team on Thursday [3-7-19]. The Trump campaign has spent the past month building out a communications team and it was not immediately clear what Shine’s portfolio as an adviser to the campaign would comprise, according to two people close to the campaign.”

Gabby Orr and Eliana Johnson, “Why Trump soured on Fox News veteran Bill Shine,” Politico, March 8, 2019 5:03 pm