Earlier this year, Axel Springer quietly reached out to the MAGA consultant Mike Rubino for assistance planning an event in Washington. The Mathias Döpfner-owned German publishing giant—which publishes POLITICO and Business Insider in the U.S.—wanted to host a private, VIP gathering ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Status has learned, and enlisted the help of the former Donald Trump campaign official turned Forward Global consultant-for-hire to help make it happen.
The event, according to people familiar with the matter, was set to take the form of an intimate Friday night dinner where members of the Trump administration would mingle with top figures from POLITICO and The Telegraph, the conservative U.K. newspaper Axel Springer recently acquired. I’m told the guest list…
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