Hewitt urges Trump to hire a lawyer as press secretary ahead of impeachment fights
Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt argues the White House needs a young lawyer-communicator to handle an expected wave of impeachment efforts against Trump and Hegseth, while Democrats are also pressing a separate tariff refund case.
Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt has urged President Donald Trump to appoint a young lawyer-communicator as White House press secretary, arguing that the administration faces a difficult period of impeachment efforts over the next two years. In a Fox News opinion column, Hewitt predicted that Democrats will push impeachment against both Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and he said the White House needs a spokesperson with legal training to answer those challenges.
Hewitt's column points to the political fallout from a previous push against Hegseth. Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, led an effort to impeach Hegseth, but he lost his May primary to Ed Gallrein by nearly 10 percentage points. Massie had also used a discharge petition to force the release of Epstein-related files. According to the column, those files were released and do not implicate Trump. Hewitt noted that four Republican lawmakers who broke with party leadership, Reps. Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick, Scott Perry's colleague Dan Bresnahan and Mackenzie, all lost their reelection bids, a result he presented as a warning to members who defy the party.
Looking ahead, Hewitt wrote that he expects Democrats to hold repeated impeachment votes in 2027 and 2028, and he predicted that any Senate removal votes would fail. He framed the coming fights as a test of how the administration explains its positions to the public, which is the basis for his recommendation of a press secretary with a legal background who can respond to constitutional and procedural questions directly.
Separately, a class action lawsuit is pressing a different aspect of the administration's legal fights over tariffs. Class counsel filed a motion on Tuesday in the Court of International Trade seeking a relief order for tariff refunds. The case, Freestyle World, Inc. v. United States, covers about 330,000 importers and concerns refunds totaling about $166 billion collected under IEEPA tariffs. The Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in a February ruling.
The Customs and Border Protection agency has disbursed more than $115 billion through its CAPE system as of August, according to the filing. The administration argues that only importers who filed their own lawsuits should receive refunds. Small importers, however, have reported technical errors in the system and often lack the legal resources to pursue individual claims, a gap the class action is designed to address.
Source: foxnews.com
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