Trump’s former press secretary Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News

Karoline Leavitt, 29, is moving from the White House briefing podium to cable television. Fox News announced Monday that she will serve as an on-air contributor, with her commentary starting November 1. She resigned as press secretary in August, a few months after having her second child, and said then that she wanted more family time and planned to work for the pro-Trump Super PAC Maga Inc, according to The Guardian.

Leavitt was the youngest person ever to hold the press secretary job, and the first to be pregnant while serving, a fact she revealed in December. In office, she tightened the administration's hold over the press pool, set aside a briefing room seat for new media figures, often conservative commentators, and regularly sparred with journalists. Donald Trump frequently praised her. Fox chief executive Suzanne Scott said Leavitt's time in the White House and on the campaign trail gives her real insight into today's politics. Two earlier Trump press secretaries, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany, also ended up at the network.

The hire comes amid friction between Trump and Fox.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →