# Ari Fleischer [[George W. Bush]]'s first White House press secretary (2001–2003), the administration's public voice through 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War. He later worked as a media consultant and commentator. He was one of the five co-chairs of the [[RNC Autopsy]], the [[Republican National Committee]]'s 2013 post-mortem on the 2012 loss. His later verdict on Trump's relationship to that report: *"I think it's fair to say that the Trump campaign did what we recommended. But did it in a way we did not recommend"* (NPR, 2020).