Almost immediately after Donald Trump’s handpicked team took the reins at the Republican National Committee — a team that includes his daughter-in-law — the party’s new leaders got to work making significant staffing changes. In fact, in mid-March, the RNC hired two new lawyers to oversee the party’s election-year legal efforts.
Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be especially notable, but nearly two months later, it’s worth checking in on the duo.
One of the attorneys hired at the RNC was Christina Bobb, who was tapped to serve as the party’s senior counsel for election integrity. It wasn’t long, however, before an unfortunate problem emerged: Bobb was recently indicted for alleged election-related crimes.
The other attorney was longtime Republican lawyer Charlie Spies, who was hired to serve as the RNC’s chief counsel. At least, that was the idea two months ago. NBC News reported over the weekend:
Republican National Committee chief counsel Charlie Spies is parting ways with the party apparatus just months after stepping into the role. He was “pushed out,” according to a source familiar with the move.
After the news was made official, Trump turned to his social media platform to celebrate the developments. “Great news for the Republican Party. RINO lawyer Charlie Spies is out as Chief Counsel of the RNC,” the former president wrote, denouncing the experienced Republican lawyer who’d been hired by his own RNC team.
At first blush, Spies appeared to bring an impressive partisan resume to the table. The attorney has worked for a variety of prominent Republican officials and party entities, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Jeb Bush’s super PAC, and Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.
But that’s not the kind of experience Team Trump finds impressive. In fact, Spies’ recent history related to the former president helps explain his brief RNC tenure.
NBC News’ report added, for example, that in 2021, Spies publicly contradicted false claims about voting machines switching votes. When asked during a Conservative Political Action Conference panel what he’d do about voting machines switching votes, he pushed back against the false conspiracy theory that has been backed by Trump allies.








