{"id":29657,"date":"2025-01-03T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/lets-see-what-happens-trump-picks-ex-state-dept-spokeswoman-ortagus-for-deputy-mideast-envoy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:51:26","slug":"lets-see-what-happens-trump-picks-ex-state-dept-spokeswoman-ortagus-for-deputy-mideast-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/lets-see-what-happens-trump-picks-ex-state-dept-spokeswoman-ortagus-for-deputy-mideast-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Let’s see what happens’: Trump picks ex-State Dept. spokeswoman Ortagus for deputy Mideast envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump announced via Truth Social his former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus<\/a> will serve as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace.<\/p>\n

In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced Ortagus will work under Steven Witkoff<\/a>,\u00a0a New York real estate tycoon selected for Middle East envoy in November.<\/p>\n

“Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson,” Trump wrote in the post<\/a>. “These things usually don\u2019t work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I\u2019m not doing this for me, I\u2019m doing it for them. Let\u2019s see what happens.”<\/p>\n

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He added she will “hopefully” be an asset to Witkoff.<\/p>\n

“We seek to bring calm and prosperity to a very troubled region<\/a>,” Trump wrote. “I expect great results, and soon!”<\/p>\n

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Ortagus, an active U.S. Navy<\/a> Reserve intelligence officer, served as spokesperson at the Department of State from 2019 to 2021, where she was a member of Trump’s Abraham Accords team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Previously, she worked at the Department of the Treasury as a financial intelligence analyst and served as Deputy U.S. Treasury Attach\u00e9 to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n

She is also the founder of Polaris National Security and the host of “The Morgan Ortagus Show” on Sirius XM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump announced via Truth Social his former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus will serve as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace. In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced Ortagus will work under Steven Witkoff,\u00a0a New York real estate tycoon selected for Middle East envoy in November. “Morgan fought me for three … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}