White House: Trump naturalization ceremony an official event "campaign decided to use"

The White House defended its decision to hold a naturalization ceremony with President Trump amid the Republican National Convention Tuesday night as an “official” event that the Republican National Committee decided to pick up.

“The President held a naturalization ceremony which was an official White House event,” a White House official wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner Thursday. “The White House publicized the content of the event on a public website that same afternoon and the campaign decided to use the publicly available content for campaign purposes. There was no violation of law.”