Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and a highly paid official in his reelection campaign, made her debut as a Fox News contributor on Monday during one of her already frequent appearances on the network.
Trump thus becomes the latest example of the revolving door between Fox News and Republican political campaigns — and she might yet revolve out again as she is also considering a run for U.S. Senate from her native state of North Carolina. As such, she might follow in the footsteps of former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is now running for governor of Arkansas after a continued period of promoting herself on Fox News.
In hiring her, Fox is further legitimizing somebody who pushed the Big Lie about the presidential election — which the network also promoted heavily — and culminated in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters who attempted to stop the transition of power to President Joe Biden.