President-elect Donald Trump announced his former State Department spokesperson via Truth Social Morgan Ortagus will serve as deputy special presidential envoy for peace in the Middle East.
In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced that Ortagus will be working under Steven Witkoffa real estate magnate from New York who will be selected as envoy to the Middle East in November.
‘Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully she has learned her lesson’ Trump wrote in the post. “These things usually don’t work, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them. Let’s see what happens.”
Morgan Ortagus was selected Friday afternoon as deputy envoy to the Middle East. (Fox News)
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He added that she will “hopefully” be an asset to Witkoff.
‘We try to bring peace and prosperity a very troubled region‘ Trump wrote. ‘I expect great results, and soon!’
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President-elect Donald Trump selected former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus as deputy Middle East envoy on Friday afternoon. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Ortagus, an active one US Navy Reserve intelligence officer, served as spokesperson at the State Department from 2019 to 2021, where she was a member of Trump’s Abraham Accords team.
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Previously, she worked at the Department of the Treasury as a financial intelligence analyst and served as Deputy US Treasury Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2011.
Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesperson, was selected Friday afternoon as deputy Middle East envoy.
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She is also the founder of Polaris National Security and host of “The Morgan Ortagus Show” on Sirius XM.
