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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert co-hosted "Fox & Friends" before joining the Trump administration.
- President Donald Trump has an incredibly close relationship with Fox
News and certain Fox hosts. - Since Trump took office, his administration has also hired over a dozen current and former Fox News executives and contributors to serve in a wide range of roles.
- Here are 19 people who have worked both for Fox News and have severed 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
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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.
Trump's cozy relationship with the network has created a well-oiled revolving door between Fox and the Trump administration.
Here are 19 people who have worked both for Fox News and have served in Trump's administration.