Media In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote a regular column for the
New York Post. She has also written for
The New Yorker,
The Washington Times,
The Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times, and the
Baltimore Sun. Crowley was a commentator for
National Public Radio's
Morning Edition in the mid-1990s. Since 2002, she hosts a nationally syndicated radio show,
The Monica Crowley Show, and she is a regular contributor to
The John Batchelor Show. In 1996, Crowley joined
Fox News Channel, where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst and occasionally substituted for
Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel's
Hannity. In 2004, she joined
MSNBC's
Connected: Coast to Coast with co-host
Ron Reagan. After a nine-month run, the last show aired on December 9, 2005. Crowley has also been a recurring guest on
Imus in the Morning and has hosted the MSNBC broadcast
The Best of Imus in the Morning. In 2007, she returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel. She was also a regular participant on
The McLaughlin Group from late 2007 to 2011. Crowley was an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night talk show;
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She had been a guest host for
Bill O'Reilly on ''
The O'Reilly Factor and his subsequent podcast and appeared opposite Alan Colmes on an episode of The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Barack and a Hard Place". She was also an occasional guest host on the daily (5:00 pm ET) Fox opinion show, The Five''. Crowley appeared in the TV series
24 in 2001, and in the
Netflix original series
House of Cards in 2013, portraying herself in both. She has been a guest on
The Colbert Report in 2005 (S1 • Episode 9) and on
Real Time With Bill Maher in 2003 (S1 • Episode 2). In election-day commentary in 2016 on Fox News, speaking of Republican candidate
Donald Trump's impending upset victory, Crowley said, "This is a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite class."
Politics As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former
president Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990 when she was 22. She was an editorial advisor and consultant on Nixon's last two books, and following Nixon's death, she published two books about him:
Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics and
Nixon in Winter. In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of
Douglas Schoen as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of
Ukrainian industrialist and political figure
Victor Pinchuk. Crowley registered as a foreign agent as required by the
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. Following Trump's election victory, it was announced in December 2016 that Crowley would join the
Trump administration as a deputy national security advisor. Following this announcement, on July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the
Treasury Department. Crowley replaced
Tony Sayegh, who left the position in May, as the top spokeswoman for
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Crowley is a contributor to
Project 2025; her name is listed alongside the Nixon Seminar, of which she is a member. On December 4, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that Crowley would be appointed as the ambassador,
assistant secretary of state, and
chief of protocol.
Plagiarism Crowley has been shown to have committed plagiarism associated with a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for
The Wall Street Journal When contacted by
The New York Times for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it." In a statement, the
Trump transition team called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her. Two days later, on January 9, 2017,
Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University. In December 2019, an internal Columbia University investigation concluded that Crowley had engaged in “localized instances of plagiarism” but that the plagiarism did not meet the level of "research misconduct." Shortly after reports emerged that she plagiarized the book
What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, the publisher of the book,
HarperCollins, announced: On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. "I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities," she said in a statement.
The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her. Crowley subsequently told Fox News host
Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."
Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"
Obama conspiracy theories Crowley has on multiple occasions spread
conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center
Park51 in
Lower Manhattan near the
World Trade Center, Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, "How could he....support the enemy?" In 2013, she said that the
Muslim Brotherhood had "found an ally" in Obama. In 2009, she noted that Obama used his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during his
Oath of office of the president of the United States swearing in as president (which presidents typically do), had early in his presidency ordered the closure of the
Guantánamo Bay detention camp, and granted an interview to the media outlet
Al Arabiya, saying this "tells you where his head is and, possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin'." In 2011, Crowley said that
birther conspiracy theories about Obama raised legitimate concerns. In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an "Islamic community organizer" who was "conforming US policy to Islam and
Sharia." ==Bibliography==