Experts in the News

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Associated Press

Trump breaks brief public silence during border negotiations

"I think it's smart for him to hang back here," said Marc Short, former White House director of legislative affairs. "I do think he should still be traveling to vulnerable districts to put pressure on (Democrats) politically. But I think it's fine for him not to be at the center of the negotiations."
Marc Short
Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Media and the Press

Fake hues and cries

"Trump’s limitation of reporters’ access to the White House and his press secretary, regardless of how forthcoming she is, violates the letter and spirit of our Constitution and the laws passed under it," writes the Miller Center's Barbara Perry in The Hill.
The Hill
Washington Post

‘Want to see the Lincoln bedroom?’: Trump relishes role as White House tour guide

Marc Short, Trump’s former legislative affairs director, said he had been in the residence with dozens of members of Congress. “It was part of my legislative strategy,” Short said of the tours. “When you see him off camera in his own residence, basically being a host, he’s really good at it. It was a warm, gracious gesture.”
Marc Short
Daily Beast

Former Trump Official Dishes on Where Wall Debate Went Wrong

On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Jackie Kucinich welcomes The Daily Beast’s White House reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, and our very first guest from the upper ranks of Trumpworld: Marc Short, President Donald Trump’s former legislative affairs director and a current Miller Center senior fellow at the University of Virginia.
Marc Short
William Barr testifying

Law and Justice

What Mueller and Barr need to tell us

Our government and citizens are certainly entitled to understand, as best they can, the counterintelligence story: how the Russian government carried out a series of covert operations to intervene in the election of a U.S. president, and how Americans may have encouraged or worked with the foreign agents.