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Anonymous ID: f683c9 May 1, 2022, 1:48 p.m. No.16190431   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0516

Amber Heard fires PR team days before she’s set to testify after torrent of ‘bad headlines’

MayDay 5-1-2022

"Actress Amber Heard has been upset with the coverage she’s getting amid her court battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp — so much so that she switched to a new public relations team ahead of her highly-anticipated testimony next week, The Post has learned.

 

The “Aquaman” star ditched crisis PR firm Precision Strategies Thursday, after getting frustrated with the press she’s received since the bombshell defamation trial kicked off last month.

 

“She doesn’t like bad headlines,” one source said.

 

Another source said Heard, 36, was “frustrated with her story not being told effectively.”

 

The actress — who is expected to take the stand in Fairfax, Virginia, as soon as Tuesday — now has consulting firm Shane Communications on retainer, sources said.

 

The switch-up came after several brutal days of testimony from Depp’s witnesses and a fiery social media mob turning against Heard.

 

Her new PR team has experience working against Depp in his failed 2017 lawsuit against his former business managers, The Management Group, and helped highlight its cross-complaint alleging the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star needed to hire a shrink for his “compulsive spending” habit of $2 million per month.

Still, communications experts told The Post Heard’s new flacks have an uphill battle ahead of them.

 

“After years of narrative building you can’t change the public’s opinion in the three weeks when someone is suing you in a case,” a crisis management PR insider said.

 

Ex-Pete Buttigieg campaign maven Lis Smith added: “It’s crazy to change teams in the middle of a trial like this because you don’t like the headlines.”

 

She said that Heard’s ex-firmPrecision Strategies, which was co-founded by formerObamaadviser and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, is “one of the best crisis firms” — “but they can’t rewrite the history of what’s happened.”

Depp, 58, is suing Heard for $50 million, claiming his ex-wife defamed him in a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post where she discussed being a victim of domestic violence. He had filed a similar lawsuit in the UK, against “The Sun,” and lost.

 

The actor — who denies Heard’s claims of abuse, including that he sexually assaulted her — was not named in the essay at the center of the ongoing trial, but he claims it clearly referenced him and ruined his career, damaged his reputation and cost him tens of millions of dollars.

 

Heard has never wanted cameras in the courtroom in the first place, but Depp’s team won the fight to have the entirety of the trial testimony live-streamed, meaning neither team could cherry-pick what information made its way out of the courtroom.

 

Precision Strategies, Shane Communications and reps for Depp declined to comment."

 

https://nypost.com/2022/05/01/amber-heard-fires-pr-team-days-before-shes-set-to-testify-after-tons-of-bad-press/

 

Amber & her PR Firm shit the bed…

Anonymous ID: f683c9 May 1, 2022, 1:53 p.m. No.16190460   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0638 >>0786

RINO ALERT

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson: 2024 run ‘on the table’ even if Trump enters race

May 1, 2022

The Republican governor of Arkansas on Sunday said a run for president is “on the table” for 2024 — even if former President Donald Trump decides to enter the race.

 

Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is term-limited, said he believes the country has to move beyond Trump, who has yet to officially announce whether he intends to run again.

 

Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about a potential bid for the White House, Hutchinson told host Dana Bash: “I am. But of course you’ve got to get through this year. That’s an option on the table.”

 

He said whatever Trump decides to do “is not a factor in my decision-making process.”

 

“I’ve made it clear: I think we ought to have a different direction in the future,” he added. “I think he did a lot of good things for our country, but we need to go a different direction.”

 

Along with Trump, a number of Republicans are likely weighing a 2024 campaign — including former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis, who has been battling Disney in the Sunshine State over the so-called “don’t say gay” bill, raised speculation that he might launch a 2024 bid when he traveled to Nevada last week to campaign for Adam Laxalt, a candidate for the Senate.

 

Hutchinson, on CNN, took a shot at the Florida governor for signing a bill that stripped Disney of its tax status.

 

“I don’t believe that government should be punitive against private businesses because we disagree with them,” Hutchinson said. “To me, that’s the old Republican principle of having restrained government.”

Trump targeted Hutchinson last August after the governor vetoed a bill that banned gender reassignment treatments or surgery for minors.

 

“Bye-bye Asa, that’s the end of him!,” Trump said, referring to him as “lightweight” and a “RINO,” the acronym for “Republican in Name Only.”

 

https://nypost.com/2022/05/01/arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-2024-run-on-the-table/