Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany will officially join Fox News, the network announced on Tuesday.
The news, announced by Fox News host Harris Faulkner, comes after weeks during which the network matched McEnany’s role in the network. It was not immediately clear what her role at the company would be.
“It’s my particular pleasure to welcome Kayleigh McEnany to the Fox family,” Faulkner said. “We’ll see a lot more of her.”
A Fox News spokesman declined to comment further than Faulkner.
McEnany, a former CNN associate, was a spokesman for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and this spring adopted the White House press secretary. She told reporters when she accepted the post: “I will never lie to you.”
This promise quickly became the subject of criticism, as McEnany regularly defended and promoted misleading statements by then-President Donald Trump. McEnany was one of Trump’s most ardent defenders during the election, with Fox News at one point cut off from a press conference she held in early November in which she pushed false allegations of irregularities into the vote.
McEnany is the youngest person to walk through the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump White House: Sarah Sanders, another former press secretary, joined Fox News before leaving to risk the Arkansas governor. Larry Kudlow, Trump’s former economic director, recently joined Fox Business Network where he presents his own program. Hope Hicks, Trump’s longtime communications director, also joined Fox News’ parent company, Fox Corp., in 2018 to serve as executive vice president and chief communications officer. She later returns to the Trump White House.
While Fox News was a stronghold of pro-Trump rhetoric during his presidency, the two parties collapsed during the 2020 election after cable news channel Joe Biden declared winner in Arizona before other media and refused to fully accept his campaign. . to question the integrity of the election. Several people on the air have taken up the conspiracy and are now being sued in a lawsuit against the company.
Despite the president’s break at the time, the network was still trying to sharpen support at its base at a time when competition from smaller and more extreme competitors, particularly Newsmax and One America News Network, was facing. Its first stars always hammer Democrats and progressives, fuel the country’s cultural wars and provide a platform for falsehoods and conspiracy theories. In January, Fox News expanded its opinion programming to the 19-hour ET.
