- President Donald Trump has an incredibly close relationship with Fox Corp. and certain Fox News hosts.
- Since Trump took office, his administration has also hired over a dozen current and former Fox executives and contributors to serve in a wide range of roles.
- And many former White House officials, including former communications director Hope Hicks and deputy press secretary Raj Shah, are now executives at Fox Corporation.
- Here are 20 people who have worked both for Fox and have served in Trump’s administration.
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President Donald Trump has a well-documented love of Fox News, known to spend hours watching (and sometimes live-tweeting) Fox programming and even calling his favorite Fox hosts, like Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, for advice.
Since Trump took office, his administration has also hired over a dozen current and former Fox News reporters and contributors to serve in both high-level cabinet and deputy chief of staff posts, as ambassadors, and in communications roles at federal agencies, according to an analysis by Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the liberal media watchdog Media Matters.
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And some former administration officials – including Trump’s trusted former communications director Hope Hicks – have left the White House to work at Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News.
Trump's cozy relationship with the network has created a well-oiled revolving door between Fox and the Trump administration.
Here are 20 people who have worked both for Fox and have served in Trump's administration.
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is currently a senior public relations executive at Fox.
Source: Business Insider
Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah also followed in Hicks' footsteps, taking a position as a Senior Vice President at Fox in July 2019.
Source: CNN
Former Trump Deputy campaign manager David Bossie is an on-air analyst at Fox.
Source: Fox News
Trump's former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan became a Fox News contributor in June 2018.
Source: Fox News
For eight months, former Fox News executive Bill Shine worked as Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications. He left the White House in March to join the Trump reelection campaign.
Source:Business Insider
Former State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauret was a co-anchor of "Fox & Friends" before joining the Trump administration.
Source: Business Insider
Sebastian Gorka went from being a Fox News contributor to briefly holding a position in the White House from January to August of 2017, going back to Fox, and leaving Fox again in 2019 to join the Sinclair Broadcasting Group.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Trump's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has served as a Fox News contributor and a board member of News Corporation, which was previously Fox News's parent company.
Source: Media Matters for America
Trump hired John Bolton — a former US ambassador to the UN and long-time Fox contributor — as his National Security Advisor in the spring of 2018.
Source: New York Times
White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp also served as a Fox analyst before joining the administration.
Source: Media Matters for America
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson also briefly served as a Fox Analyst before his 2016 presidential bid.
Source: Fox News
Former US Senator Scott Brown also served as an on-air analyst before Trump appointed him as Ambassador to New Zealand.
Source: ABC News
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell also worked as a Fox contributor.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Another ambassador, Georgette Mosbacher, was a Fox contributor before being confirmed as the US ambassador to Poland in early 2018.
Source: Media Matters
Anthony Scaramucci, who spent an infamous 10 days as White House communications director, was previously a Fox Business analyst and hosted "Wall Street Week" on the network.
Sources: New York Post, Business Insider
K.T. MacFarland went from being a Fox national security contributor to briefly working in the White House under former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. She has since left the Trump administration, and still occasionally appears on Fox Business.
Source: Fox Business, New Yorker
Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh worked as a GOP strategist and a Fox News contributor before joining the administration.
Source: US Treasury Department
Former Fox journalist Lea Gabrielle currently serves as the State Department's special envoy for the Global Engagement Center, which seeks to combat disinformation around the world.
Source: CNN
Morgan Ortagus, who appeared on Fox as a contributor after working on counterterrorism and international development issues under the Bush and Obama administrations, replaced Nauret as State Department spokeswoman in April 2019.
Source: Newsweek
Former Fox production assistant John McEntee worked as Trump's body man during the campaign and the first year of his administration, but was reportedly fired in May 2018 after the Department of Homeland Security raised concerns about his gambling habits.
Source: Washington Post
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