After more than a week of rumors, the White House has made it official: Former Fox News co-president Bill Shine will become “Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications.” The White House version of Shine’s qualifications is that “He brings over two decades of television programming, communications, and management experience to the role.”
But it might be more accurate to say that he has years of experience covering up sexual harassment for Roger Ailes and the rest of the sleazebags at Fox:
Shine resigned from Fox News in May 2017 after he was accused in several lawsuits of covering up or downplaying allegations of workplace sexual harassment and racial discrimination. His resignation came two weeks after the network’s top-rated host Bill O’Reilly was ousted from Fox News following revelations that he and the network had paid out $13 million to settle complaints against him from five female co-workers.
Relevant skills for the Trump White House, no doubt!
And Fox News’s status as official state media becomes even a little clearer.