The Daily Beast reports:
President-elect Donald Trump named Monica Crowley, a former Fox News contributor, as his nominee for chief of protocol at the State Department — marking the latest network personality to land a job in the incoming administration.
Trump, an avid viewer of the right-leaning cable network, seems to be using the network as a farm team for his political appointees. His nominations include at least 12 more people who have been on the Fox payroll.
Crowley, a longtime conservative political commentator who worked for years as a Fox contributor, is also a veteran from Trump’s last administration, where she served as the assistant secretary of the Treasury for public affairs.
Read the full article. In 2017, Crowley registered as a foreign agent for a pro-Putin Ukrainian billionaire after withdrawing from consideration from a national security post when her book and PhD thesis were hit with accusations of plagiarism. She first appeared here when she spread claims that Barack Obama is secretly Muslim. Crowley is a Project 2025 contributor.
Trump’s pick to be Assistant Secretary of State, Monica Crowley:
“Senator Joe McCarthy was right…The same deep state going after Donald Trump, the same deep state that removed Richard Nixon…That deep state smeared and attacked Joe McCarthy for speaking the truth.” pic.twitter.com/LOeCdZRs4N
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) December 4, 2024
Monica Crowley would be the 10th former Fox personality to serve in the second Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/jb1cjmKK03
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 4, 2024
Trump aide Monica Crowley plagiarized thousands of words in her Ph.D. dissertation, a #CNNKfile review has found https://t.co/qxOpAlt4jC pic.twitter.com/v0RlFwXXbf
— CNN (@CNN) January 12, 2017
Yes, this tweet from more than four years ago is appalling. Almost as appalling is that despite a massive plagiarism scandal that hit Crowley in the interim, the Trump administration appointed her to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs. https://t.co/RVuaMgs2Ao
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 10, 2019
Project 2025 Contributor: This Election Is “A Spiritual War, It’s God Versus The Enemy, It’s Good Versus Evil” https://t.co/EoKPa0a76T pic.twitter.com/G6t2m3oj4X
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) October 15, 2024