Tag: Carly Fiorina

New York (CNN Business)Former Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur, whose hiring by CNN stirred controversy last month, is no longer taking a job as a political editor in the Washington bureau. She tweeted on Friday: "It's been a great vacation but I am back on twitter! And news: I will go to CNN as a Political Analyst instead. Isgur is a longtime Republican political operative who previously worked for Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney. She served as the DOJ's top spokeswoman during Jeff Sessions' tenure as attorney general. Earlier this year she met with television network executives and showed an interest in moving from politics to journalism. Even once it was clarified that she'd be reporting to political director David Chalian, and would be one of several people involved in coordinating 2020 coverage, there were still deep concerns about the role -- including from inside CNN. She was set to start working at CNN next week. But a network spokeswoman indicated that Isgur proposed a shift away from the editor role. "We can confirm that when Sarah came to us and proposed her role be adjusted to a political analyst instead, we agreed and we look forward to her starting in that role," the CNN spokeswoman said Friday afternoon.

Leah Millis/Reuters Sarah Isgur Flores, a Republican spokeswoman who worked most recently for the Justice Department, has been hired by CNN to help with the network’s political coverage, propelling a Trump administration official directly into a news role for a top cable network. Her hiring as a “political editor,” not a commentator, led to internal and external criticism of CNN for placing a Republican political operative in a position to help guide daily political coverage, including 2020 presidential campaign news. In an internal memo on Wednesday announcing the hire, CNN’s Washington bureau chief, Sam Feist, said Ms. Isgur would spend the first few months getting to know CNN, and then “play a coordinating role” in covering politics. She previously worked as a deputy campaign manager for Carly Fiorina, a Republican who ran for president during the 2016 election. And years ago she retweeted a comment from a conservative news outlet that referred to her new employer as the “Clinton News Network.” Mr. Feist’s memo on Wednesday came after a flurry of concern — and in some cases, deep frustration — voiced by members of the network’s political staff, according to two people familiar with the complaints. CNN has previously showed a willingness to hire employees from conservative-leaning news outlets and organizations, arguing that ideological diversity is helpful in ensuring robust coverage. Some prominent journalists have forged careers in news after working in politics, including George Stephanopoulos, who was hired as a contributing correspondent for ABC News in 1996 after serving as one of President Bill Clinton’s closest advisers. His move from the Clinton White House to ABC News — initially as a partisan member of a Sunday political panel, who would also do some reporting — raised hackles inside and outside the network at the time. David Axelrod, the chief political strategist for both of President Barack Obama’s campaigns, was hired by NBC News as an analyst in 2013, and has since moved to CNN. But Ms. Isgur is joining the network as a political editor, not a pundit, and departing an administration in which the president routinely criticizes the news media, including CNN.

Former 2016 presidential candidate speaks out on President Trump's agenda, the midterm elections and current political climate on 'America's Newsroom.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and…

Trump made the comment Tuesday after a federal judge dismissed Daniels' defamation lawsuit against the President for deriding Daniels' account of an affair with Trump with subsequent threats from an unknown men not to come forward with her story. "Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas," he tweeted in celebration of the ruling. "She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!" Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard executive, had her own appearance attacked by then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election. "Look at that face," he told Rolling Stone magazine of Fiorina. "Would anyone vote for that? "When people were shocked at Donald Trump's comments about my appearance, I wasn't because he wasn't the first man to make comments about my appearance -- positive or negative -- and he won't be the last man to do so," she said. While still condemning Trump for his comments, Fiorina added that she thinks the current political discourse is part of a larger cultural movement that "lifts up outrage." "I do worry that our civil discourse and political discourse has sort of gotten to a new low based on outrage and insult," she said.

Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina denounced Donald Trump's Twitter attack on Stormy Daniels earlier this week in which he referred to the adult film actress as "horseface." #CNN #News

Fiorina suggested President Donald Trump’s implicit support for Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race amid a series of child molestation allegations was the unfortunate result of “politics.” “This is all about politics and that’s why when politicians talk about this it doesn’t have a lot of credibility,” Fiorina told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday. “Donald Trump cares about a vote in the Senate ? no more, no less.” Despite several high-ranking Republican lawmakers calling on Moore to drop out of the race, Trump has stood by the embattled candidate. He told reporters that Moore had denied the sexual misconduct allegations against him, and he criticized Doug Jones, Moore’s Democratic opponent. “We don’t need a liberal person in there,” Trump said, referring to Jones. Trump addressed the race again on Sunday, but continued to remain tight-lipped about the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore. Instead, he tweeted that Jones would be “BAD” and “a disaster” if elected. Liberal Jones would be BAD! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017 Fiorina, who penned an essay for Medium last week calling on men to take a stand against “unspeakable behavior” toward women, noted that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have politicized the recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations. Of course.” “All women are not victims,” she continued. Women know it, and men know it.”