Trump picks State Department spokesman Ortagus for deputy Middle East envoy

President-elect Donald Trump announced through Truth Social his former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus will serve as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace.

In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced that Ortagus will be working Steven Witkoffa New York real estate mogul tapped for Middle East envoy in November.

“Morgan fought me for three years, but I hope he learned his lesson,” Trump wrote in the post. “These things don’t usually work, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing it for me, I’m doing it for them. Let’s see what happens.”

Morgan Ortagus was selected Friday afternoon to serve as deputy envoy to the Middle East. (Fox News)

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He added that “we hope” he will be an asset to Witkoff.

“We seek to bring calm and prosperity a very problematic region“, Trump wrote. “I expect great results, and soon!”

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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday afternoon picked State Department foreign affairs spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus as his deputy Middle East envoy. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Ortagus, an asset US Navy A reserve intelligence officer, he served as a spokesman at the State Department from 2019 to 2021, where he was a member of Trump’s Abraham Accords team.

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She previously worked at the Treasury Department as a financial intelligence analyst and served as the US Treasury’s Deputy Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2011.

Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesman, was selected late Friday to serve as deputy Middle East envoy.

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She is also the founder of Polaris National Security and the host of “The Morgan Ortagus Show” on Sirius XM.