Trump to pick Fox News contributor for new State Dept spokeswoman

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC News

The Trump administration has chosen counterterrorism expert and Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus to be the new State Department spokeswoman, three people with knowledge of the decision told NBC News.

Ortagus, a U.S. Naval Reserve officer, would bring significant experience in national security and foreign policy to the role. She will replace Heather Nauert, a former Fox News anchor who had been announced as President Trump's pick for new U.N. ambassador but later withdrew herself from consideration.

Ortagus previously served as a public affairs officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an independent agency which takes direction from the State Department, according to a biography posted on the website of her consulting firm, GO Advisors. Her work included time in Iraq.

She also worked for the Treasury Department in the first term of the Obama administration as an intelligence analyst and as Treasury's deputy U.S. attaché to Saudi Arabia, where her GO Advisors bio says she worked on countering illicit finance.

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[thegoose]

1. This Faux Nooz shit

Ridiculous.

[rurallib]

2. prep school for working in Dear Leader's admin.

[DFW]

3. Aside from business cronies and people he has seen on Fox Noise, Trump doesn't KNOW anyone else

That doesn't give him a very big pool to make appointments from. If he gets recommendations other than from his TV, they are from the same kind of pond scum that he picks from already. If he makes an important pick for some national or federal posting that turns out to be one who is appropriate and qualified for the job, it will have been by pure accident, and definitely NOT by design.