Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus is believed to be attempting to wriggle her way back into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s next administration in January. While Ortagus held a communications role at the top U.S. diplomatic agency from 2019 until 2021 under Trump, colleagues at State and other departments viewed her as less than aligned with Trump’s America First foreign policy.
FAILED CONGRESSIONAL BID.
Following the 2020 election, Ortagus’s true colors were revealed, especially after she was blocked in 2022 from running for Congress in Tennessee after the state legislature passed a law requiring candidates to live in the district they wish to represent. She was largely backed by the Republican Party establishment, with fundraisers hosted by a who’s who of anti-Trump donors.
Having failed to even make the ballot in the Tennessee congressional race, Ortagus—who previously served within the entrenched, neoconservative foreign policy establishment at USAID and the Treasury Department under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama—ramped up her appearances on corporate media, especially Fox News, where she routinely attacked Trump.
ANTI-AMERICA FIRST.
In May of 2023, just as the Republican presidential primary was kicking off in earnest, Ortagus slammed Trump’s major foreign policy speech. During an appearance on Fox Business, she told host Charles Payne that she hadn’t “drank the juice yet.” Orgatus smeared the now President-elect, stating: “Where I fundamentally disagree with [Trump’s] foreign policy, where I think it is very Rand Paul-esque, is the seeds of isolationism. In his gut, he does not think that America should be a ‘policeman of the world.’”
Despite Orgatus’s insistence that Trump’s America First foreign policy views are ‘isolationist,’ the American people have resoundingly agreed with Trump—sending him back to the White House with a landslide 2024 election victory. […]
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