run interference

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Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who helped run interference in the Mueller probe; former adviser Peter Navarro, who played a key role in pushing Trump's Big Lie about the election; and Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's controversial family separation policy.

From Salon

The column caught the eye of the incoming Reagan administration, on the lookout for right-thinking Blacks to run interference on controversial racial policies.

From Washington Post

Donald Trump is fuming that he has no loyalists on the Jan. 6 House select committee who can run interference on his behalf.

From Washington Post

Several of Mr. Trump’s aides tries to run interference, but Mr. Giuliani, who had been staring at the screens in the campaign war room and insisted that the president had won Michigan, was undeterred.

From New York Times

Biden claims he loves the press, but his administration is run by those who constantly apologize for him when they shouldn't, while trying to limit his interaction with us so they don't have to run interference.

From Salon