President Elect Donald Trump has chosen yet another Fox News veteran to join his administration as woke crusader Tammy Bruce is headed to the State Department.
Bruce, a former liberal, was selected to became spokesperson for the key diplomatic post, serving under current Florida Senator Marco Rubio after his Senate confirmation.
The former Fox Nation host and Fox News Channel contributor is the latest network employee to join the new administration.
So far, Fox alums joining Team Trump include” Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, border ‘czar’ Tom Homan, national security advisor Michael Waltz, Israel ambassador pick Mike Huckabee, director of national intelligence hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, would be Attorney General Pam Bondi and several others.
Like many of her future co-workers, Bruce has a history of controversial statements on air that have upset liberals but also her future boss, Rubio.
From 2014 to 2016, Bruce was ardently against Rubio during his role in the Senate and his own failed run for the White House which he lost to Trump, among several other hopefuls.
When Rubio announced his run, Bruce tweeted: ‘Another inexperienced senator who’s never run a thing in his life? Pass.’
During the Republican Primary debates in 2016, she referred to Rubio as a ‘kid waving frantically in the back of room trying to prove relevance.’
Tammy Bruce becomes the latest Fox News veteran to join Donald Trump ‘s Cabinet, naming her spokesperson for the State Department
The Fox Nation host and Fox News Channel contributor is the latest network employee to join the new administration
She also slammed him for working with Democrats like Chuck Schumer on the failed ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration bill and said at one point in 2016 that she had to ‘mute Marco.’
However, much of her fire is reserved for the Democrat Party, as well as ‘woke’ liberal activists.
In 2021, she drew outrage for claiming that Democrats were proposing funding for research on mutant, human-animal hybrids.
‘Chimeric research is Pandora’s box, that’s obviously from hell, that should not be opened,’ she said.
‘But the scientific community, spurred on by their own hubris, may very well open it, using American taxpayer dollars. And if that happens the Democrats will have blood on their hands for not joining the GOP and stopping it when they had a chance.’
Trump announced Bruce’s hiring in a post on Truth Social on Friday night.
‘It is my great honor to announce that Tammy Bruce will be joining our incredible Nominee for United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State,’ he said.
‘As one of the longest serving News Contributors, Tammy has brought TRUTH to the American People for over two decades.’
Like many of her future co-workers, Bruce has a history of controversial statements on air that have upset liberals but also her future boss, Rubio
Trump also noted that Bruce is a former liberal activist, once the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women.
She was censured by NOW for leading protests against the 1995 acquittal of OJ Simpson, The Advocate reported.
Bruce has since moved progressively to the right and become a prominent ‘anti-woke’ activist, with Trump claiming that she ‘saw the lies and fraud of the Radical Left, and quickly became one of the strongest Conservative voices on Radio and Television.’
‘Tammy Bruce has been an extremely valued contributor at FOX News Media for nearly 20 years and we wish her all the best in her new role,’ a spokesperson for Fox News told DailyMail.com in a statement.
Trump has begun filling out some of the media relations wing of his administration, after naming Steven Cheung his communications director and Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary.
She will likely be working under Rubio, who is considered one of the less controversial picks for the Cabinet.
The Florida senator has gone from being denigrated by Trump as ‘Little Marco,’ a heated campaign rival, to perhaps the most coveted of all Cabinet posts after coming around on Trump and campaigning fervently for the MAGA Republican even after being passed over for vice president on the ticket.
Rubio, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, is considered a foreign policy hawk who has taken hard lines on China, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, and will lead Trump’s prowess on the world stage as his Secretary of State.
He currently serves as the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was considered to be on Trump’s shortlist for vice president earlier this year.
As Secretary of State, Rubio would be a key Trump envoy to press Ukraine to find a way towards a settlement with Russia in their years-long conflict.
In 2019, Rubio pushed Trump to adopt the harsh sanctions he ultimately deployed against Venezuela to try to unseat its authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., praised Trump’s selection of Rubio.
‘Congratulations to our very own SECRETARY OF STATE — who will be the highest serving Hispanic in American History!’ he wrote on X.
Rubio will follow Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The president-elect’s second term as president is being shaped by the loyal allies who stood by him during his four years outside the White House.
As the clock ticks down to his inauguration on January 20, all eyes will be on Mar-a-Lago as Republicans jostle for a cabinet spot or a senior role in the West Wing.
Bruce will be working under Marco Rubio, who is considered one of the less controversial picks for the Cabinet
And those are filling fast. A slew of potential appointees have emerged for top Cabinet or West Wing roles and a handful of contenders for other vital positions have emerged.
Those include Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, and John Ratcliffe as Director of the CIA.
But the president-elect sent shockwaves through the Republican Party with his announcement that he’ll nominate now former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General in a bold – and ultimately failed – test of his unchecked power.
Gaetz was forced to withdraw on Nov. 21 amid an alleged underage sex scandal and hours later Trump tapped former Florida AG Pam Bondi as his new pick.
He has also nominated former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who infuriated critics with claims about ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine, to be Director of National Intelligence.
And his choice of military veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the sprawling Defense Department, despite little experience managing anything of that scale and complexity, has come under fire as well, heightened by allegations of a past sex assault.
Perhaps the biggest bombshell came with his announcement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health & Human Services, rather than as a non-cabinet health czar.
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