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Nick Luna | |
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| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Implementation | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Natalie Quillian |
| Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council | |
| Assumed office December 2020 | |
| Director of Operations for the Vice-President Elect | |
| In office July 2024 – January 20, 2025 | |
| Leader | JD Vance |
| Assistant to the President and Director of Oval Office Operations | |
| In office April 2020 – January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Madeleine Westerhout |
| Succeeded by | Annie Tomasini |
| Deputy Assistant to the President for Operations and Personal Aide to the President | |
| In office February 2019 – April 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Jordan Karem |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Goepfert |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Cassidy Dumbauld (m. 2020) |
Nicholas F. Luna is an American government official who currently serves as Assistant to the President and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Implementation in the second presidency of Donald Trump.[1][2][3]
Education and Early Career
[edit]Luna graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2010,[4] and served as a personal assistant, logistics coordinator, and trip advance representative for several Republican political candidates, including John McCain, Rick Scott, and Mitt Romney.[4][5] He also pursued a career as an actor.[4][5][6]
First Trump Administration
[edit]Luna began working for the first Trump administration as a Lead Advance Representative. He became Trip Director, then Special Assistant to the President for Operations, then Deputy Assistant to the President for Operations and Personal Aide to the President.[5][7] In April 2020 he became Assistant to the President and Director of Oval Office Operations.[5][7] In December of 2020, President Trump appointed Luna to a five-year term on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.[8][9]
In September 2020, Luna married Cassidy Dumbauld, a fellow White House staffer who served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner.[10][11] The New York Times cited the couple as one of several White House couples who had found the growing politicization in liberal Washington, D.C. difficult for dating aged conservatives.[12][13]
In October of 2020, Luna was one of the first presidential aides to be diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus,[14][15][16] in a White House outbreak which would eventually involve over three dozen aides, as well as President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their youngest son Barron Trump.[17][18][19]
Luna continued to work for the President following the January 6 United States Capitol attack through the end of the administration.[20][21] He was one of the staffers scheduled to join Trump and his family on their last ceremonial flight on Air Force One,[22] and moved with Trump to Florida to help handle post-presidential affairs.[11][23][24] For a time, Luna served as a manager for CIC Ventures LLC[25][26] (which stands for Commander In Chief Ventures[27]), a company which is owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and which organizes speaking engagements[27], receives royalties from the books Letters to Trump and Our Journey Together,[28] and licenses the use of Trump branding for items including Trump sneakers and the Trump Bible.[26]
Testimony
[edit]Luna was subpoenaed to provide a deposition before the January 6 Committee.[5][24][29] At the deposition, Luna testified that he had seen Trump tearing up documents.[30] He testified that he had heard Trump call Vice President Mike Pence a "wimp" in a phone call for refusing to question the electoral count.[31][32][33] He said that he was aware of the president's desire to go to the Capitol,[34] and was unaware of any requests by trump to send law enforcement assistance.[35] He described an exchange he had with the president regarding his tweets,[36] and provided context for gaps in the president's schedule and phone logs from that day.[37][38]
Luna was also called to testify before the grand jury in the Jack Smith special counsel investigation of Donald Trump for election obstruction.[39][40][41] Luna testified that when he informed Trump that lawmakers, including Pence, were being evacuated from the capital, Trump responded "So what?", indicating that Trump was "capable of allowing harm to come to one of his closest allies"[42][43][44]
Because he was one of the White House staff members who packed up documents at the end of the first term,[45] Luna was named in a letter from House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney asking the National Archives to provide information regarding several top Trump advisers' discussions about preserving and storing White House records, in preparation for what would later become the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.[46]
Second Trump Administration
[edit]In 2024, Luna was selected by then-candidate Trump to serve as Chief of Operations for candidate and Vice Present-elect JD Vance during the campaign and transition.[47][48]
In January 2025, Trump announced that Luna would serve as Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Strategic Implementation.[1][2][3] Trump said that the position would "oversee Presidential scheduling, and ensure that external White House messaging, outreach, and operations are aligned with the administration’s short- and long-term objectives.”[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b David Cohen (January 5, 2025). "Trump adds 4 to White House team". Politico.com. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
- ^ a b c Filip Timotija (January 4, 2025). "Trump announces additional senior White House officials". The Hill. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ a b Brett Samuels (January 7, 2025). "Trump's America First becomes America expands". The Hill. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ a b c Erin Laviola (July 21, 2022). "Nicholas 'Nick' Luna: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "Nicholas Luna - J6 Committee Witness Testimony Transcript" (PDF). March 21, 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2023.
- ^ Ron Kampeas (December 17, 2020). "Trump names Rudy Giuliani's son and 2 other aides to Holocaust Museum Council". The Times of Israel. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ a b Maggie Haberman (April 21, 2020). "Dan Scavino Promoted as Meadows Shuffles White House Communications Team". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Jordyn Phelps and Benjamin Siegel (December 18, 2020). "Trump rushes to dole out plum appointments to allies on way out the door". ABC News. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Zach Montague (December 16, 2020). "Trump taps Giuliani's son for membership on the Holocaust Memorial Council". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Alyssa Choiniere (October 5, 2020). "Cassidy Dumbauld, Nick Luna's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ a b Jennifer Jacobs and Saleha Mohsin (January 15, 2021). "Trump plans to live at Mar-a-Lago, employ some current aides". The Detroit News. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ Katie Rogers (February 17, 2020). "Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Peter Weber (February 17, 2020). "Trump aides are finding it hard to date in liberal Washington. So they're dating, marrying each other." Yahoo News. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Jennifer Jacobs and Justin Sink. (October 3, 2020). "Trump Bodyman Tests Positive for Virus in New White House Case". Bloomberg News. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ "Donald Trump's close aide Nick Luna contracts coronavirus". The News International. October 4, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ "Here's who has tested positive for COVID-19 in U.S. President Trump's inner circle". CBC News. December 6, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Matthew Conlen (December 8, 2020). "Tracking Coronavirus Infections in the White House and Trump's Inner Circle". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Laura Blasey (October 7, 2020). "Essential Politics: This is how a coronavirus outbreak unfolds". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Dylan Moriarty, Elbert Wang, and Maureen Linke (October 4, 2020). "The Trump White House as a Covid-19 Hot Spot". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
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- ^ Don Lemon (January 18, 2021). "POLITICO Playbook: An MLK Day challenge to the news media". Politico. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya and Mike Hayes (January 18, 2021). "Trump may be preparing final video message from White House". CNN. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Rob Crilly (January 23, 2021). "Trump's young guns: The five former White House staffers setting up his Mar-a-Lago office". Washington Examiner. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ a b Kyle Cheney, Betsy Woodruff Swan and Nicholas Wu (July 11, 2022). "Meet the key players in the next Jan. 6 hearings". Politico. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ Inae Oh (March 27, 2024). "What to Know About Donald Trump's New $60 Bible". Mother Jones. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ a b Soo Rin Kim and Lalee Ibssa (March 28, 2024). "Trump endorses line of Bibles -- after selling shoes, NFTs and more". ABC News. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ a b Michael C. Bender, Eric Lipton, Matthew Goldstein and Ken Bensinger (April 14, 2023). "Six Takeaways From Trump's New Financial Disclosure". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Casey Tolan, David Wright, Steve Contorno, Fredreka Schouten and Jeremy Herb (August 16, 2024). "Trump's financial disclosure shows millions made from licensing deals but costly civil judgments". CNN. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney (November 9, 2021). "Jan. 6 panel demands testimony from Stephen Miller, Kayleigh McEnany". Politico. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
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- ^ Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman (June 16, 2020). "For Mike Pence, Jan. 6 Began Like Many Days. It Ended Like No Other". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Jon Jackson (June 16, 2022). "Donald Trump Warned Pence He'd Be Exiled If He Didn't Overturn Election". Newsweek. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Chris Marquette (June 8, 2022). "Trump wanted armed supporters allowed into Jan. 6 rally and to lead Capitol charge, aide says". Roll Call. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ Caroline Linton (July 26, 2022). "Trump did not have 10,000 troops ready to deploy on Jan. 6, his defense secretary says". CBS News. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ "Trump's former assistant describes his Jan. 6 conversation with the former president". CBS News. July 21, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
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- ^ Lauren Harper and Claire Harvey (June 9, 2022). "The Capitol Riot: Trump's Shadow Call Log". National Security Archive. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
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- ^ Katherine Faulders, Mike Levine, Alexander Mallin, and Will Steakin. (January 7, 2024). "Special counsel probe uncovers new details about Trump's inaction on Jan. 6: Sources". ABC News. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Chris Walker (January 8, 2024). ""So What?" Trump Aides Say He Reacted Flippantly to Capitol Evacuation on Jan. 6". Truthout. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
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{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney (February 25, 2022). "House Dems step up investigation into Trump's handling of sensitive records". Politico. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
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