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Agency: Executive Office of the President / White House Role: Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Press Secretary (January 20, 2025 – August 2025) Severity: P2 Status: Departed August 2025; joined CGCN Group (lobbying/public affairs)

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Basis for Inclusion

Subject classification: Public Official — political appointee serving as Special Assistant to the President.

Basis for inclusion: Fields served in the highest-profile secondary spokesperson role at the White House during the first eight months of Trump’s second term. His portfolio included several of the administration’s most controversial policy areas (DOJ, Treasury, Education, DOGE, HUD), making his public statements on those subjects accountability-relevant. His departure to a lobbying firm creates additional revolving-door accountability documentation.

Bio and Background {#bio}

Harrison William Fields was born on September 30, 1995. He attended college and built an early career in Florida politics, joining the communications staff of then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2018 as a communications aide — his first significant political communications role.

In 2019, Fields joined Trump’s first-term White House as a presidential writer in the Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was promoted to Assistant Press Secretary in June 2020, serving alongside Karoline Leavitt — the two developed a close professional relationship that would define both their subsequent careers. After Trump’s 2020 defeat, Fields joined Florida Representative Byron Donalds as Communications Director and Senior Advisor, a role he held through the congressman’s subsequent career and 2024 gubernatorial preparations.

In January 2024, Fields moved to The Heritage Foundation as Assistant Director of Media and Public Relations, where he earned $130,000 annually per his OGE financial disclosure. He served as a Trump surrogate during the 2024 presidential campaign before being named Principal Deputy Press Secretary on January 20, 2025.

In August 2025, Axios first reported that Fields would resign to join CGCN Group, a conservative lobbying and public affairs firm. He was described by Axios as “one of the first major departures in Trump’s second term and one of the most senior Black men on the president’s team.” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement: “We are grateful for his service and wish him all the best in his next chapter.”

SourcesWikipedia: Harrison Fields; Axios: Trump’s principal deputy press secretary heads to K Street — Aug. 20, 2025; CGCN Group bio; OGE Form 278e — Harrison Fields, 2025Fields told Axios upon his departure: “It has been a great honor and blessing to play a small part in President Trump’s triumphant return to the White House and the consequential success of the White House Press Office.” He noted he would “continue to support the MAGA movement” and was expected to aid Byron Donalds’s Florida gubernatorial campaign.

Role and Communications Function {#role}

As Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Fields was the second-ranking spokesperson in the White House press operation, subordinate to Press Secretary Leavitt and the broader communications structure under Steven Cheung and Taylor Budowich.

His portfolio was notable in its breadth and policy significance. Per CGCN Group’s published biography, Fields “worked closely with the Secretaries of Treasury, Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, helping to lead messaging strategy for major legislation, presidential executive orders, and administration policies.” He also carried the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) account — one of the most heavily covered and controversial policy operations in the administration’s first year.

In practice, Principal Deputy Press Secretaries frequently appear at the briefing room podium when the Press Secretary is unavailable, conduct background briefings with reporters on their specific portfolio agencies, and serve as on-camera surrogates for the administration on broadcast news. Fields made regular appearances on conservative media throughout his tenure.

SourcesCGCN Group bio; White House: Trump announces appointments to WH Communications offices — Jan. 2025; Axios: Fields heads to K Street — Aug. 20, 2025His departure was notable for its timing (seven months in) and destination (K Street). The revolving door between senior White House press positions and lobbying firms is well-documented; Fields’s entry adds to that record.

Messaging Strategy {#messaging-strategy}

Fields’s communications approach followed the combative-offense model established by Leavitt and Cheung: defending DOGE’s aggressive government restructuring against congressional and press criticism, amplifying favorable coverage, and appearing on aligned conservative media outlets.

His portfolio’s concentration in economically consequential departments (Treasury, Education, DOJ) and DOGE made him a key conduit for administration messaging on the fiscal and structural changes that defined the first year of Trump’s second term. Given his departure date (August 2025), his on-record communications are available primarily through the first seven months of the administration — the period of maximum DOGE activity and agency restructuring.

Significant Public Statements {#statements}

Fields’s public record consists primarily of appearances on conservative media outlets defending DOGE and administration policy. Specific individual statements with formal fact-check records have not been documented in publicly available sources as of May 2026. His communications function was primarily as a secondary spokesperson and agency liaison rather than as the primary named spokesperson for high-profile factual claims.

Note for researchers: Fields’s White House briefing room appearances, background briefings with reporters, and television appearances during January–August 2025 are the primary sources for his on-record public statements. These can be retrieved from: whitehouse.gov briefing archives, C-SPAN video archives, and conservative media (Fox News, OAN, Newsmax) broadcast records from the period.

Controversies {#controversies}

SourceAxios: Fields heads to K Street — Aug. 20, 2025Revolving door — White House to K Street (August 2025): Fields departed the White House after seven months to join CGCN Group, a conservative lobbying and public affairs firm. His portfolio in the White House included the DOJ, Treasury, Education, HUD, and DOGE — all entities with significant regulatory and legislative interests relevant to lobbying clients. Federal ethics rules impose a cooling-off period on direct lobbying of former agencies, but the move raises standard revolving-door accountability questions about the use of government access and relationships for private commercial benefit.

Overall Veracity Track Record {#track-record}

Overall rating: Insufficient public record for formal rating

Fields served as a secondary spokesperson whose individual statements were rarely the subject of formal fact-checking. His communications function was defined more by his institutional role than by notable individual claims. Given his departure in August 2025, his public record represents only the first seven months of the administration.

Spokesperson Misinformation Assessment {#misinformation-assessment}

Designation: None

Advocacy vs. Misinformation determination: Fields’s documented in-role conduct consists of secondary-spokesperson advocacy and agency-liaison messaging (DOGE, Treasury, Education, DOJ, HUD) for the administration’s agenda; the profile contains no in-window statements attributable to him carrying institutional fact-check ratings sufficient to establish a pattern of knowing misinformation.

Comparative Baseline: Insufficient in-window fact-check record versus the cross-administration press-secretary reference class.

Framework note: The Spokesperson Misinformation Assessment evaluates the transition from advocacy to knowing misinformation, not one-sided spin. Vigorous advocacy for an administration’s agenda is protected message discipline, not misinformation.

Framework disclosure: This assessment applies a published analytical framework to documented, in-role public statements by a public official, filtered to their tenure window. All factual predicates are cited to institutional fact-checkers. This assessment is subject to update as new evidence emerges or prior evidence is corrected.

Social Media Accounts {#social-media}

  • X (Twitter): Not publicly identified as an official handle; @HarrisonFields may be his personal account

Key Source Links {#sources}

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