"Hopefully she has learned her lesson": Trump bashes envoy in announcement of her nomination
SalonIn an unusual nomination even by his standards, President-elect Donald Trump nominated diplomat and former Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus to serve as Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East Peace on Friday. In a post to Truth Social, Trump admitted that he had squabbled with Ortagus in the past and added that nominations like this “usually don’t work out.” “I am pleased to announce Morgan Ortagus as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace… Early on Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson,” Trump wrote. “She will hopefully be an asset to Steve.” Ortagus previously served as a State Department spokesperson under Trump and worked before that as a national security contributor for Fox News. It was on that network that Ortagus blasted Trump’s “isolationist” foreign policy and “disgusting” behavior, a 2019 CNN report found, before later reinventing herself as a pro-MAGA personality.
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