Trump’s newest choice to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, seems to come from the same boiling cauldron of bigotry and ignorance that all of his other picks have come from—Fox News and outlets that are Fox News-adjacent. CNN published a report Monday highlighting a program broadcast in 2009 on Fox News’ website that Nauert hosted, featuring then-prominent Islamophobic conspiracy theorists Frank Gaffney, Robert Spencer, and Tarek Fatah. All three men are known for writing books and speaking into microphones to suggest not only that President Barack Obama was probably a secret Muslim, but that he was definitely funding jihadists’ attempts to overthrow the United States government from the inside. It cannot be overstated that this is what these zealots (or charlatans?) promote. Of course, Nauert, like any good Fox News event host, found her fair and balanced position, firmly on the side of 100 percent credulity in completely unverifiable conspiratorial bigotry.
In 2009, Nauert introduced the program as exploring "a school of thought that there is a stealthy jihad taking place within the US. And the theory is that some in our country want to destroy our America from within."
They would achieve this destruction, she continued, "by using our own legal system against us, by undermining our financial system and even taking away our holidays. The fact that we are a PC, politically correct country, well that will only be used against us."
This is in line with Nauert’s career as a Fox News “reporter.” Here’s a sample of Nauert’s hard-hitting journalism from about six years ago, when she was covering the famous plague of Muslim-Americans taking over our country and turning it into the Sharia law caliphate we now are experiencing under Donald Trump.
Nauert: Well, the minority is becoming the majority at one community pool. Sharia law is now changing everything. A YMCA in Minneapolis-St. Paul is starting a swim group for Muslim girls, but special considerations have to be made to keep with their religious beliefs.
The dastardly “special considerations”? Things like having female lifeguards on duty during their class. Not allowing men into the pool while they take their hourlong class. You know,
considerations that Fox News seems to only want for little white girls. Nauert’s tenure at Fox News included all of the egregious and fact-free anti-immigrant reporting you have come to expect from a Fox News personality. The
Guardian reports that Nauert is probably not going to be considered part of the cabinet, downgrading the diplomatic position to
“largely a mouthpiece for the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the national security adviser, John Bolton.”