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-- 2017 --
April 5: Jared Kushner Hires Blumhouse PR Chief Josh Raffel for White House Role
Hollywood publicist Josh Raffel has joined the White House Office of American Innovation.
Raffel, 32, previously represented Jared Kushner’s Kushner Companies when he worked for Hiltzik Strategies. Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has been tasked with injecting ideas from the business world into the federal bureaucracy. Hope Hicks, another Hiltzik veteran, is part of the Trump administration’s communications team.
After leaving Hiltzik in 2015, Raffel ran communications for Blumhouse Productions, the producer of horror hits such as “The Purge” and “Insidious.” In a business studded with profane and controlling mouthpieces, he is well respected among entertainment journalists for his sane, sensible style and his wit. Raffel confirmed his new job to Variety, but declined to offer additional comment.
https://variety.com/2017/film/news/blumhouse-trump-josh-raffel-1202023280/
-- 2018 --
March 27: White House spokesman Josh Raffel, a close ally of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, is leaving the administration, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Raffel is a former Hollywood public relations executive, and he previously represented Kushner’s real estate company. He was also previously a colleague of White House communications director Hope Hicks.
He developed a reputation as a fierce — and often combative — defender of Kushner and Ivanka Trump and he often led their communications efforts. Raffel also oversaw communications on issues related to Israel and Palestine, and he assisted National Economic Council director Gary Cohn in selling the tax reform bill.
Raffel will return to the private sector, departing at some point in the next two months, a White House official said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/josh-raffel-leaving-white-house-427175
August 8: Behind The Jared And Ivanka PR Machine
When reporters are working on stories that involve Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, they hear from Josh Raffel, a tough, former New York City flack now inside the White House.
On a Thursday late last month, shortly before the New Yorker published its famous interview with Anthony Scaramucci, Jared Kushner paused in the West Wing to chat with ABC’s Jonathan Karl and his daughter, who worked as a CNN summer intern.
Kushner told Karl’s daughter that it must be interesting to be a reporter, because you always have to figure out who is going to lie to you, according to two people familiar with the matter.
When Kushner thought he noticed another reporter, New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, recording the exchange, he was startled and said it was off the record. He then uncomfortably asked Nuzzi to delete the recording, which she did not do. A few minutes later, after Kushner had left, a Secret Service agent and a press assistant approached Nuzzi and told her she was not permitted to record. (She is.)
The exchange offered a brief look into Kushner’s awkwardness sometimes when it comes to dealing with the press. Luckily for him, it’s a responsibility that typically falls to a 33-year-old White House spokesperson and key lieutenant: Josh Raffel.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/behind-the-jared-and-ivanka-pr-machine
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