Trump has chosen former State Department spokesman Ortagus for the position of deputy ambassador to the Mideast
President-elect Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that his former State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus will serve as the President's Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East Peace.
In a post on Friday afternoon, Trump announced that Ortagus will serve under Steven Witkoff, a New York businessman who was chosen as Middle East envoy in November.
“Morgan fought me for three years, but I hope she learned her lesson,” Trump wrote in the post. “These things usually don't work, but he 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 appointed on Friday afternoon to serve as deputy ambassador for the Mideast. (Fox Stories)
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He added that he will “hopefully” be useful to Witkoff.
“We want to bring calm and prosperity to a very troubled place,” Trump wrote. “I expect good results, and soon!”
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President-elect Donald Trump selected former State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus to serve as deputy ambassador to the Mideast on Friday afternoon. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Ortagus, an intelligence officer in the US Navy Reserve, served as a spokesman for the State Department from 2019 to 2021, where he was a member of Trump's Abraham Accords team.
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Previously, he worked at the Treasury Department as a financial intelligence analyst and served as the US Deputy Financial Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2011.
Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesman, was named Friday afternoon to serve as deputy ambassador for the Mideast.
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He is also the founder of Polaris National Security and host of “The Morgan Ortagus Show” on Sirius XM.
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