Mr. Hegseth is set to move from “Fox & Friends Weekend” to overseeing the Pentagon. Sean Duffy, host of Fox Business, is the chosen Mr. Trump for transportation secretary. Tom Homan, a Fox contributor, has been described as the czar of his borders. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who explained the Covid pandemic to Fox viewers, is running for surgeon general. (None are yet on Fox’s payroll; the network terminated the contracts of anyone tapped by Mr. Trump.)
There’s Mike Huckabee, who hosted a Fox News show for seven years, as ambassador to Israel. Tulsi Gabbard, who left a Fox gig in August, is in the running for national information director. Two longtime Fox commentators, Tammy Bruce and Monica Crowley, are headed to the State Department. At least 11 other people with Fox connections — including Sebastian Gorka, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Keith Kellogg — are also headed for management positions.
Some of the Fox graduates headed into management are more closely associated with Fox than others.
Sergio Gore, who will lead the White House Office of the President’s Staff, has not worked for Fox since 2012, when he was a booker for Neil Cavuto. Morgan Ortagus, nominated by Mr. Trump as deputy special presidential envoy for the Middle East, worked as a network contributor for only two months in early 2019.
Ms. Ortagus was a representative of the State Department in the first term of Mr. Trump and the president-elect have expressed some skepticism about her. “At first Morgan fought me for three years, but I hope she’s learned her lesson,” she wrote announcing her new role. “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.”
Mr. Wallace said he believed the preponderance of Fox alumni in the incoming administration would reflect well on his network. “It’s a testament,” he said, “to the types of people we’ve chosen in the past.”
