Nauert Reported Earning Fox Salary While at State Department

Source: CREW

Heather Nauert, a former State Department spokesperson and President Trump’s original pick to replace Nikki Haley as the United States Representative to the United Nations, reported in her termination financial disclosure report that she received salary payments from 21st Century Fox while she was working in government.

Nauert was an anchor and correspondent on Fox News from August 2007 until April 2017, when she joined the State Department as a spokesperson. She reported receiving $167,000 from 21st Century Fox, which she characterized as “Salary,” in Part 2 of her termination report. Part 2 covered the period from January 1, 2018, eight months after she entered government, to March 31, 2019, the date she left the State Department.

If Nauert’s termination financial disclosure report is correct, the salary payments are problematic because the White House gave her an ethics waiver that authorized her to meet, interview, and communicate with 21st Century Fox employees. The Counsel to the President explained that the basis for the waiver included a finding that she did not have a “continuing relationship with” or “financial interest in” the company. The State Department’s ethics official gave Nauert a related ethics waiver, and he offered the same explanation.

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State Department ethics officials have not yet certified Nauert’s termination report, so the information she disclosed may still change. It is possible that the salary entry is a mistake. But a comparison of her termination report with two earlier financial disclosure reports shows that Nauert did not simply carry over salary information from her earlier reports by accident: The salary amounts are different in all three reports.

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