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BumRushDaShow

(171,432 posts)
Sat May 2, 2026, 08:08 AM 12 hrs ago

Trump cabinet member contacted crisis firm to bury bad press: NYT report

Source: Raw Story

May 1, 2026 9:58PM ET


A member of Trump's cabinet was in contact with a crisis management firm to bury negative press as he made a push for a White House post, according to a new report.

"I need to be able to throw a ton of upvotes at the stuff that is rah rah rah for him, especially in conservative circles where it might get back to DJT," reads an email by Jed Wallace, an executive from The Agency Group, in reference to a job Robert F. Kennedy Jr asked him to do. The New York Times reported the communication between the Health and Human Services secretary and TAG on Friday.

Ostensibly a PR firm, TAG has also been accused by actor Blake Lively of being hired by actor Justin Baldoni to orchestrate a smear campaign against her. The NYT acquired emails from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the TAG executive after they were included in unsealed Manhattan federal court records, the paper reported. Lively's legal team had gathered them in a deposition during a lawsuit against another actor, according to the NYT.

Kennedy Jr. was in contact with TAG after he had dropped out of the race for president in 2024, but while he was seeking to catch Trump's attention for a cabinet job, per the NYT.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-jr-crisis-firm/

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Trump cabinet member contacted crisis firm to bury bad press: NYT report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP
No surprise no_hypocrisy 11 hrs ago #1
RFK jr UpInArms 11 hrs ago #2
What bad press? I thought he was proud of eating roadkill, hosting a brainworm tanyev 11 hrs ago #3
So, the stuff we know about RFK Jr. is the GOOD STUFF??!! 70sEraVet 10 hrs ago #4
Trump cabinet member contacted crisis firm to bury bad press. Literally? Like Saudis? twodogsbarking 9 hrs ago #5

no_hypocrisy

(55,198 posts)
1. No surprise
Sat May 2, 2026, 08:12 AM
11 hrs ago

I worked for a law firm that hired a PR firm to hide accusations of a few pedophile priests 25 years ago.

I had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

tanyev

(49,499 posts)
3. What bad press? I thought he was proud of eating roadkill, hosting a brainworm
Sat May 2, 2026, 08:14 AM
11 hrs ago

and asking Cheryl to carry his sauerkraut in her purse everywhere they go.


70sEraVet

(5,573 posts)
4. So, the stuff we know about RFK Jr. is the GOOD STUFF??!!
Sat May 2, 2026, 09:55 AM
10 hrs ago

The bad stuff is so bad, it would shock the Pedo President's sense of 'morality' (whatever horrors THAT would look like)?
I don't dare to imagine.

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