Monica Crowley is a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She worked as a contributor for Fox News from 1996 to 2017, with a few breaks. She has also been a political commentator and lobbyist. Monica Crowley currently serves as the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Chosen as the official representative for the Treasury Department, Crowley’s selection was declared by Trump on July 16, 2019. She took the oath of office on July 24, 2019. After allegations of copying in her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? And her 2000 Ph.D. Thesis, she stepped down a month later, having been designated as a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council by the Donald Trump administration in December 2016.
Early life and education
She allegedly plagiarized parts of her dissertation from Columbia University, where she holds a Ph.D. In international relations and a B.A. In political science. She graduated from Watchung Regional Hills High School in 1986. She grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey, and was born at Fort Huachuca, an Army base located outside Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Career
In 1990, when she was 22 years old, Crowley commenced composing letters to former President Richard Nixon, who employed her as a research assistant. She served as an editorial adviser and consultant on Nixon’s final two books. After Nixon’s passing, she released two books regarding him: Nixon off the Record: His Frank Observations on Individuals and Politics and Nixon in Winter. As a scholar.
In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote regular columns for The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Post.
Radio
She has been a regular contributor to The John Batchelor Show and also has her own nationally syndicated radio show since 2002, which is also available as a podcast on iTunes. In the mid-1990s, Crowley was a commentator for NPR’s National Public Radio Morning Edition.
Television
She was also a regular participant in Group McLaughlin in 2011. She returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel in 2007, hosting The Best of Imus in the Morning broadcast on MSNBC and also making recurring guest appearances on Imus in the Morning. After the last aired show in December 2005, which ran for nine months, she joined MSNBC’s Coast to Coast: Connected. She occasionally substituted for Sean Hannity in 2004 and was a political analyst and foreign affairs expert on Fox News Channel, where she joined in 1996.
Crowley occasionally serves as a panelist on Greg Gutfeld’s late-night satire show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, on the Fox News Channel. She has also appeared as a guest host on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly’s opinion show, since 2009. One of the segments she participated in was called “Barack and a Hard Place,” which aired on Tuesday’s episode opposite Alan Colmes. Additionally, she has made appearances on his subsequent podcast.
Crowley starred in the Netflix exclusive show House of Cards, playing the role of herself.
Following the announcement that Fox News terminated her contract with the network, Crowley announced in December 2016 that she would join the Trump administration as a deputy national security advisor. Speaking on Fox News on election day in 2016, Crowley referred to Trump’s impending victory as a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite.
Consulting
In 2017 March, Crowley registered as a foreign agent required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, serving as a consultant providing “outreach services” on behalf of Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian political and industrial figure, at Douglas Schoen’s firm.
Treasury Department
In July 2019, President Trump announced the appointment of Tony Sayegh as the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Department of Treasury, replacing Steven Mnuchin’s spokesperson position.