Earlier Friday, the president-elect announced the creation of a National Energy Council (NEC), whose mission will be to “oversee the path to energy domination of the United States”, and appointed as its head the North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, known for his closeness to the oil and gas industry.
On Thursday, he announced that he would entrust the Ministry of Health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, notoriously skeptical of vaccines, and key positions in the Ministry of Justice to the lawyers who personally defend him in his troubles with the law.
As with the choice of the thundering Trumpist Matt Gaetz for the Department of Justice, these appointments “respond to two criteria: loyalty and rupture”, Todd Belt, professor of political science at George Washington University, analyzed for AFP on Thursday. .
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Karoline Leavitt, appointed Friday, “did a phenomenal job as national spokesperson during my historic campaign and I am pleased to announce that she will be spokesperson for the White House,” added Donald Trump , assuring that “she will excel in front of the pulpit and help us convey our message to the American people so that America can become a great nation again.”
She will work under the leadership of Steven Cheung, communications director for the campaign, who will take over this same title at the White House.
Karoline Leavitt previously worked in Congress as communications manager for Elise Stefanik, a 40-year-old representative from New York State, recently appointed by Donald Trump to the post of United States ambassador to the UN.
She also personally campaigned, in 2022, to be elected to the House as a representative of the state of New Hampshire, but suffered a defeat.
“I didn’t grow up in a political family. Like most Americans, I grew up in a middle-class business family here in my home state of New Hampshire. I dove into politics in college,” she said in a Fox News podcast Friday.
She recounts having helped a team from this channel popular with conservatives at her university in Saint Anselm, when she was, during the Republican primaries in 2016, “one of the only conservative people on campus”.
“That’s when I decided what I wanted to do with my career,” she said.
During his first term, Donald Trump worked with several spokespersons, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh McEnany and Sean Spicer.
