Trump’s TN-5 Pick Morgan Ortagus Launched a Consulting Firm with Her ‘Best Friend’ – A CNN Contributor Turned Biden Official Who Called Trump ‘Hitler’.

The news further raises questions as to Ortagus's fitness for the MAGA base.

Morgan Ortagus – the Trump administration official mulling a controversial run for Congress in Tennessee – co-founded a consultancy firm alongside her “best friend” Samantha Vinograd, a former CNN contributor who now works in Joe Biden’s White House. Vinograd has an extensive history of bashing former President Trump, even likening him to Adolf Hitler.

Ortagus – who was Mike Pompeo’s State Department spokesman during the Trump administration – received a preemptive “complete and total endorsement” from the former president, in a move that has left the America First base baffled and angered. Filmmaker and grassroots activist Robby Starbuck has been considered the frontrunner and favorite of Trump’s base thus far in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional district.

Following a report revealing Ortagus’s pledge to “faithfully serve the Biden administration,” her past policy positions, including repeated criticism of the America First agenda prior to joining his administration, continue to call into question why Trump would lend support to the potential candidate.

Ortagus’s work in the private sector – including co-founding a consultancy firm alongside a Trump-bashing Democrat with deep ties to President Joe Biden – also appears at odds with the MAGA base.

The firm in question, Global Opportunity Advisors, was founded just before Ortagus was welcomed into the Trump administration. She partnered alongside Vinograd, a current Biden and former Obama official. During the Obama years, Vinograd was tapped for a high-level role at the National Security Council, advising then-National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. Donilon’s brother Mike currently serves as a Senior Advisor to President Biden.

In addition to working as a CNN contributor, often appearing on the network to bash Trump, Vinograd also earned a spot as a Senior Advisor to the Biden Institute.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/01/morgan-ortagus-founded-consulting-firm-with-biden-official/