Charlie Spies, the chief counsel of the Republican National Committee, resigned Saturday after growing tensions with the Trump surrogates running the Party as well as with the presumptive nominee himself, NBC News reports. A longtime GOP operative, Spies was hired in March after Lara Trump and Michael Whatley took the helm, but because Spies criticized efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a rift quickly developed with Team Trump.
Given that Spies had worked for Ron DeSantis, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush in previous campaigns–Spies was part of the Ron DeSantis team’s Titanic performance in the 2024 GOP primaries–Donald Trump himself reportedly approved Spies’ hiring, but later learned of harsh comments Spies had made in the past about Trump’s election denialism.