By Lloyd Grove
The Daily Beast
July 26, 2018
Scandal-plagued former Fox News executive Bill Shine—who was hired three weeks ago by President Donald Trump to fix the bungling White House messaging operation—is himself being trailed by a dark cloud of embarrassing publicity, including a series of racist tweets posted over the years by his wife Darla.
The latest indignity for Trump’s freshly minted deputy chief of staff—who oversees the White House communications department and was a key figure Wednesday in the widely criticized banning of CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins from a presidential press conference—is Thursday’s formal request from a Trump-backing right-wing legal activist that federal prosecutors investigate Shine for alleged criminal conduct during his two decades as the top aide to Roger Ailes, the late, disgraced Fox News founder.