Former White House Press Secretary Kyle McCain will officially join Fox News, the network announced Tuesday.
The news, announced by Fox News host Harris Faulkner, comes weeks after the network split over McKennie’s role in the network. It was not immediately clear what his role would be in the company.
“It’s a great pleasure to welcome Kelly McCann into the Fox family,” Faulkner said. “We’ll see more of that.”
A Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment further on Faulkner’s statements.
McKinney, a former CNN contributor, was a spokeswoman for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and served as White House press secretary last spring. “I will never lie to you,” she told reporters as she took the job.
That promise quickly became the subject of criticism, as McNenny regularly defended and encouraged misleading statements made by then-President Donald Trump. Proving to be one of Trump’s most ardent defenders during McNay’s election, Fox News at one point cut her off from a press conference in early November in which she advanced false claims of voting irregularities.
Sarah Sanders, another press secretary, joined Fox News before taking a look at the running door between Fox News and Trump White House: before watching the race for governor of Arkansas. Larry Cudlow, Trump’s former economic director, recently joined the Fox Business Network where he hosts his own show. Hope Hicks, Trump’s longtime communications director, also served as its executive vice president and chief communications officer at Fox News’ parent company, Fox Corp. She later returned to the Trump White House.
While Fox News was the focus of pro-Trump rhetoric during his presidency, the cable news channel moved between the two parties during the 2020 election after Joe Biden was declared the winner in Arizona ahead of other media and refused to fully accept his campaign. To cast doubt on the integrity of the election. Many on-air celebrities admitted to the conspiracy and have now been named in a lawsuit against the company.
Despite seceding from the presidency at the time, the network has continued to support its base among those at a time when it faces competition from smaller and more extreme competitors, particularly Newsmax and One America News Network. Its primetime stars constantly hammer at Democrats and progressives, waging nation’s culture wars and providing a platform for lies and conspiracy theories. In January, Fox News extended its opinion programming to E hours and ET hours.
