Trump taps former Fox News reporter to lead anti-propaganda agency

[Borealis]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/02/07/trump-taps-fox-news-reporter-lead-u-s-anti-propaganda-initiative-gabrielle/2802461002/

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will tap a former Fox News reporter and former intelligence operative to lead the U.S. government's premier agency charged with exposing
and countering disinformation from Russia and other foreign governments around the world.

Lea Gabrielle, who joined Fox News in 2013 and is also a former Navy pilot, will be the new head of the Global Engagement Center, according to a copy of the announcement obtained
by USA TODAY. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino later confirmed the appointment at a briefing on Thursday, saying Gabrielle will begin her new position Feb. 11. 

Gabrielle is the latest in a string of Fox News personalities to win high-profile roles in the Trump administration. The president has selected Heather Nauert, a former Fox News anchor,
to be his next United Nations ambassador. And he hired former Fox News executive Bill Shine in June to serve as a top communications adviser. 

Gabrielle's appointment, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, immediately raised eyebrows among Trump administration critics who questioned her qualifications for the job. 
Brett Bruen, who worked on the U.S. response to Russian propaganda in the Obama administration, said he was concerned Gabrielle did not appear to have the necessary experience
for the job.

[Orbito]

Imagine now obama appointing former cnn anchors and reporters to these positions and tell me how this is ethical. For certain nobody should call this fair.

[TheTalon]

That's like recruiting an RT reporter to investigate and report on Russian propaganda

[Mike Hunt]

at this point trump might as well hire a former pravda reporter to investigate the flaws of marxist leninism

[ASparkle]

That's not like what he's doing, that's exactly what he's doing.

[Download]

Imagine the right-wing meltdown if Obama had done that.

[Borealis]

Imagine the right-wing meltdown if Obama had:

-The discriminatory housing practices of Trump and his father
-Affairs with multiple mistresses
-Children from at least three different mothers
-Chronic and admitted sexual harassment and assault
-Married multiple European immigrants
-Swapped political parties at least three times
-Ran a fraudulent university and charity
-Appointed a Supreme Court justice because his party blocked his predecessor from nominating one
-Lied about inaugural crowd size
-Placed family members into top White House positions
-Refused to release tax returns
-Refused to divest buinesses
-Placed unqualified rich Democrat donors in the Cabinet and agencies
-Appointed a rapist alcoholic to the Supreme Court
-Dropped out of NATO
-Said you have to go after terrorists' families
-Called Mexicans rapists and criminals
-Doctored photos to appear more attractive
-Mocked disabled people
-Mocked John McCain
-Attacked judges as "Bush judges"
-Carried out diplomacy on Twitter
-Commented about finding his daughter attractive
-Employed undocumented immigrants in his businesses
-Literally refuseed to carry out laws the administration doesn't want
-Lifted sanctions on Russia
-Covered up a journalist's brutal murder by Saudi Arabia
-Trod upon local laws by attacking an equivalent of sanctuary cities
-Seperated migrant and immigrant families
-Locked up children in cages
-Shut down the government for 35 days over a vanity project
-Blow up the deficit by a trillion dollars
-Make over 8,000 false statements in two years
-Accept help from hostile foreign nations to win the office of the President of the United States

[BuffaloHops]

Food for thought, compare people's reactions between the metaphorical idea of a Black Democrat doing this versus the reality of a White Republican doing this.

[ASparkle]

Yeah, let's not forget that pornstar mistresses were literally something the far right tabloids tried to slander Obama by claiming he had...