Trump releases bizarre statement after announcing new White House hire

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump added: 'She will hopefully be an asset to Steve, a great leader and talent, as we seek to bring calm and prosperity to a very troubled region.
53% : Ortagus, a former Fox News contributor and State Department spokeswoman, was previously endorsed by Trump when she ran for a Congressional seat in Tennessee in 2022.
51% : 'I am told the very strong and impressive Morgan Ortagus is exploring a run for Congress in Tennessee's 5th Congressional District,' Trump wrote at the time.
49% : She said Ortagus was hoping to become Deputy Secretary of Defense, a powerful post.
43% : However, Trump appears less than convinced by the hire, saying that Ortagus 'fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson.''These things usually don't work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing it for them.
41% : Loomer said Ortagus and her business partners 'all worked against Trump in case she is telling you otherwise,' she advised.
39% : I'm not sure why you asked that question,' Trump said in California when pressed on the relationship.
36% : Donald Trump appeared less than convinced by Morgan Ortagus, his new foreign policy hire, in a new statement saying that 'these things don't usually work out'The conspiracy theoriest and provocateur, who travelled with Trump during the campaign before reportedly being kept off his plane, engaged after Ortagus, a former Fox News contributor and State Department spokeswoman, posted an image of herself with Kash Patel, Trump's controversial nominee to be FBI Director.
36% : Trump appears less than convinced by the hire, saying that Ortagus 'fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson'Ortagus, a former Fox News contributor and State Department spokeswoman, was previously endorsed by Trump when she ran for a Congressional seat in Tennessee in 2022Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is under fire after being accused of sexual assault and taking part in drunken strip club escapades.
36% : But Trump defended her in September after she accompanied him to Sept. 11th ceremonies despite pushing a bizarre conspiracy theory that the attacks were an 'inside job.''Laura has been a supporter of mine.
36% : She posted an image of herself with Trump the day before the elections.
36% : Laura Loomer compared former State Department official Morgan Ortagus to a 'snake' after she posted an image of herself with Kash PatelLoomer quoted from the song 'the Snake,' which Trump has read at rallies while discussing immigrationIn 2022, despite Trump's endorsement, Ortagus was booted from the ballot in Tennessee after the local GOP voted to remove her because she had only just moved to the state.
34% : Donald Trump appeared less than convinced by his new foreign policy hire in a new statement saying that 'these things don't usually work out' a month after Laura Loomer called her 'a snake.'The president-elect announced that Morgan Ortagus was being named Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace on Friday.
18% : Read More Laura Loomer leads MAGA warning Trump there is a 'snake' in his circle'She is hoping she can become the Deputy Secretary of Defense after Trump named Rep. Elise Stefanik' was designated as his pick to be U.S. ambassador to the UN 'instead of Morgan', she wrote.
12% : Morgan Ortagus is a snake who is disliked by all of her colleagues at the State Department and she is a traitor to Trump,' Loomer wrote, referencing people who stormed the Capitol.

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