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{{Short description|American conservative pundit and television personality (born 1968)}}
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| name = Monica Crowley
|birth_place = [[Fort Huachuca]], Arizona, U.S.
| image = Monica E. Crowley official photo.jpg
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| office = [[Chief of Protocol of the United States]]
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| status = Presumptive nominee
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| president = [[Donald Trump]] (elect)
|education = [[Colgate University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[Columbia University]] {{small|([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| term_start = TBD
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| succeeding = [[Ethan Rosenzweig]] (acting)
| predecessor = [[Ethan Rosenzweig]] (acting)
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| office1 = [[United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury]] for Public Affairs
| president1 = [[Donald Trump]]
| term_start1 = July 24, 2019
| term_end1 = January 20, 2021
| predecessor1 = [[Tony Sayegh]]
| successor1 = Calvin Mitchell
| birth_name = Monica Elizabeth Crowley
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| relatives = [[Jocelyn Elise Crowley]] (sister)
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'''Monica Elizabeth Crowley'''<ref name="appointed"/> (born September 19, 1968) is the former [[United States Department of the Treasury|assistant secretary for public affairs]] for the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Department of the Treasury]]. She has been a political commentator and lobbyist. She was a [[Fox News]] contributor, where she worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for ''[[The Washington Times]]'' and a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].
'''Monica Crowley''' (born September 19, 1968) is an American political commentator and lobbyist.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/monica-crowley-ukraine-lobbying-victor-pinchuk-236037|title=Trump's pick for national security role now lobbying for Ukrainian tycoon|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref> She is a [[Fox News]] contributor, where she has worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for ''[[The Washington Times]]'' and a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=C |title=Membership Roster – Council on Foreign Relations |publisher=Cfr.org |date= |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref><ref name=WT01>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/monica-crowley/|title=Monica Crowley |work==The Washington Times|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref> In December 2016, the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Donald Trump administration]] announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. However, she withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 volume ''What the (Bleep) Just Happened?.''<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/monica-crowley-plagiarism.html?mcubz=3&_r=0</ref>

In December 2016, the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Donald Trump administration]] announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book ''[[What the (Bleep) Just Happened?]]'' and that there were "localized instances of plagiarism" of her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation that [[Columbia University|Columbia]] concluded did not meet the level of "research misconduct". On July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as spokesperson for the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. On July 24, 2019, she was sworn into office.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Crowley was born at [[Fort Huachuca]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.makers.com/monica-crowley |title=Monica Crowley, Conservative Commentator & Author &#124; MAKERS Video |publisher=Makers.com |date= |accessdate=2016-12-15}}</ref> an Army base located outside of [[Sierra Vista, Arizona]], and grew up in [[Warren Township, New Jersey]]. She holds a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[political science]] from [[Colgate University]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[international relations]] from [[Columbia University]] (2000).<ref name="The News August 27, 1996"/>
Crowley was born at [[Fort Huachuca]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.makers.com/monica-crowley |title=Monica Crowley, Conservative Commentator & Author |website=Makers.com |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=June 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626165935/http://www.makers.com/monica-crowley |url-status=dead }}</ref> an Army base located outside [[Sierra Vista, Arizona]], and grew up in [[Warren Township, New Jersey]]. Crowley graduated from [[Watchung Hills Regional High School]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whrhs.org/uploaded/Hall_of_Fame/2008/WH_2008_Monica_Crowley.pdf|title=Watchung Hills Regional High School. Hall of Frames|website=whrhs.org|access-date=15 July 2023|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926181056/https://www.whrhs.org/uploaded/Hall_of_Fame/2008/WH_2008_Monica_Crowley.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

She holds a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in [[political science]] from [[Colgate University]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[international relations]] from [[Columbia University]] (2000). There were "localized instances of plagiarism" in her dissertation at Columbia that Columbia concluded did not meet the level of "research misconduct".<ref name="cnn1">{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Caroline |date=December 20, 2019 |title=University probe of Treasury spokeswoman's dissertation finds plagiarism but not 'research misconduct' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/politics/monica-crowley-treasury-plagiarism-dissertation-columbia/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240824025829/https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/politics/monica-crowley-treasury-plagiarism-dissertation-columbia/index.html |archive-date=August 24, 2024 |access-date=24 August 2024 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref name="Politico01" /><ref>{{Cite news|first=Olivia|last=Baker|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2017/01/11/following-plagiarism-accusations-columbia-will-not-say-if-it-will-rescind-trump/|title=Following plagiarism accusations, Columbia will not say if it will rescind former Trump pick's Ph.D.|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]|date=January 11, 2011|access-date=November 11, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022433/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2017/01/11/following-plagiarism-accusations-columbia-will-not-say-if-it-will-rescind-trump/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kaczynski |first1=Andrew |last2=Acosta |first2=Jim |date=January 16, 2017 |title=Monica Crowley bows out of Trump administration post following plagiarism revelations |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/16/media/kfile-crowley-out/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316002057/https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/16/media/kfile-crowley-out/index.html |archive-date=March 16, 2021 |access-date=December 22, 2019 |website=CNNMoney}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
===Media===
As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon]], who hired her as a research assistant in 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_VUOP91jQ|title=Monica Crowley on Working for President Nixon|first=|last=Richard Nixon Foundation|date=18 July 2012|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> when she was 22 years old.<ref name="The News August 27, 1996">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7mcQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K44DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3674,3303445&dq=monica-crowley&hl=en|title=Taking good notes helped Monica Crowley, 27|last=Romano |first=Carlin ([[Knight Ridder]])|date=August 27, 1996|work=The News via Google|page=9A | location=New York <!--accessed 2009-10-09-->}}</ref><ref name="Crowley1998">{{cite book|first=Monica |last=Crowley|title=Nixon in Winter: The Final Revelations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqW7WLucHvsC&pg=PR2|year=1998|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-266-1|pages=2–}}</ref> She was an editorial adviser and consultant on Nixon's last two books, and following Nixon's death, she published two books about him.
{{external media|float = right|video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?74188-1/nixon-record &#91;Nixon Off the Record&#93; <nowiki>&#124;</nowiki> C-SPAN.org] ''Booknotes'' interview with Crowley on ''Nixon off the Record''', September 29, 1996, [[C-SPAN]]}}
In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote a regular column for the ''[[New York Post]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Monica Crowley|url=https://nypost.com/author/monica-crowley/|access-date=30 January 2022|website=[[New York Post]]|archive-date=January 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113004317/https://nypost.com/author/monica-crowley/|url-status=live}}</ref> She has also written for ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Crowley |first=Monica |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/07/29/nixon-unplugged |title=Nixon Unplugged (abstract) |url-access=subscription |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=July 29, 1996 |pages=42– |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928025959/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/07/29/nixon-unplugged |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Times]]'',<ref name="WT01">{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/monica-crowley/ |title=Monica Crowley |work=[[The Washington Times]] |access-date=March 11, 2016 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021161415/https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/monica-crowley/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'',<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/08/nixons_monica_stonewalls_about_plagiarism.html |title=Nixon's Monica Stonewalls About Plagiarism! |last=Noah |first=Timothy |date=August 23, 1999 |newspaper=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339 |access-date=January 7, 2017 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010004037/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/08/nixons_monica_stonewalls_about_plagiarism.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', and the ''[[Baltimore Sun]]''.


Crowley was a commentator for [[National Public Radio]]'s ''[[Morning Edition]]'' in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Monica Crowley|url=http://wabcradio.com/showdj.asp?DJID=15060|website=WABC Radio|access-date=10 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102081049/http://www.wabcradio.com/showdj.asp?DJID=15060|archive-date=2 January 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Since 2002, she hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Monica Crowley Show'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trn1.com/monicaweekends |title=TRN Entertainment Announces Continuation of the Weekend Monica Crowley Show – Talk Radio Network |website=Trn1.com |access-date=February 20, 2012 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919152029/http://www.trn1.com/monicaweekends |url-status=live }}</ref> and she is a regular contributor to ''[[The John Batchelor Show]]''.
In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote a regular column for the ''[[New York Post]]''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} She has also written for ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>Crowley, Monica, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/07/29/nixon-unplugged "Nixon Unplugged" (abstract; subscription)], ''The New Yorker Magazine'', July 29, 1996, p. 42-.</ref> ''[[The Washington Times]]'',<ref name=WT01/> ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'',<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/08/nixons_monica_stonewalls_about_plagiarism.html|title=Nixon's Monica Stonewalls About Plagiarism!|last=Noah|first=Timothy|date=1999-08-23|newspaper=Slate|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339|access-date=2017-01-07}}</ref> the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', and the ''[[Baltimore Sun]]''.


In 1996, Crowley joined [[Fox News Channel]], where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst and occasionally substituted for [[Sean Hannity]] on Fox News Channel's ''[[Hannity]]''. In 2004, she joined [[MSNBC]]'s ''Connected: Coast to Coast'' with co-host [[Ron Reagan]]. After a nine-month run, the last show aired on December 9, 2005. Crowley has also been a recurring guest on ''[[Imus in the Morning]]'' and has hosted the MSNBC broadcast ''The Best of Imus in the Morning''. In 2007, she returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel. She was also a regular participant on ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'' from late 2007 to 2011.
===Radio===
Crowley was a commentator for [[National Public Radio]]'s ''[[Morning Edition]]'' in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Monica Crowley|url=http://wabcradio.com/showdj.asp?DJID=15060|publisher=WABC Radio|accessdate=10 December 2011}}</ref> Since 2002, she has had her own radio show, ''The Monica Crowley Show'', which is also available as a podcast on iTunes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trn1.com/monicaweekends |title=TRN Entertainment Announces Continuation of the Weekend Monica Crowley Show – Talk Radio Network |publisher=Trn1.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref>


Crowley was an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night talk show; ''[[Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld]]''. Since 2009, she has been a guest host for [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' and his subsequent podcast and appeared opposite [[Alan Colmes]] on an episode of ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' in a segment called "Barack and a Hard Place". She is also an occasional guest host on the daily (5:00 pm ET) Fox opinion show, ''[[The Five (TV program)|The Five]]''.
===Television===
In 1996, Crowley joined [[Fox News Channel]], where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst and occasionally substituted for [[Sean Hannity]] on Fox News Channel's ''[[Hannity]]''. In 2004, she joined [[MSNBC]]'s ''[[Connected: Coast to Coast]]'' with co-host [[Ron Reagan]]. After a nine-month run, the last show aired on December 9, 2005. Crowley has also been a recurring guest on ''[[Imus in the Morning]]'' and has hosted the MSNBC broadcast ''The Best of Imus in the Morning''. In 2007, she returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel. She was also a regular participant on ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'' from late 2007 to 2011.


Crowley appeared in the TV series ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'' in 2001, and in the [[Netflix]] original series ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]'' in 2013, portraying herself in both.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monica Crowley {{!}} Career Overview in TV Shows |url=https://www.metacritic.com/person/monica-crowley/ |website=metacritic.com |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=16 January 2024 |archive-date=January 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116045836/https://www.metacritic.com/person/monica-crowley/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She has been a guest on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' in 2005 (S1 • Episode 9)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Colbert Report S1 • Episode 9 Monica Crowley |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-colbert-report/season-1/episode-9-monica-crowley/ |website=metacritic.com |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=16 January 2024 |archive-date=January 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116053634/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-colbert-report/season-1/episode-9-monica-crowley/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and on ''[[Real Time With Bill Maher]]'' in 2003 (S1 • Episode 2).<ref>{{cite web |title=Real Time With Bill Maher S1 • Episode 2 Monica Crowley et al. |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/real-time-with-bill-maher/season-1/episode-2-episode-12/ |website=metacritic.com |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
Crowley is an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night satire show ''[[Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld]]''. Since 2009, she has been a guest host for [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' and appeared opposite [[Alan Colmes]] on Tuesday's ''The O'Reilly Factor'' in a segment called "Barack and a Hard Place". She is also an occasional guest host on the daily (5:00 pm ET) Fox opinion show, ''[[The Five (TV program)|The Five]]''.


In election-day commentary in 2016 on Fox News, speaking of Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]]'s impending upset victory, Crowley said, "This is a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite class."<ref>{{cite news |last=Bauder |first=David |url=https://www.boston.com/news/media/2016/11/09/election-coverage-an-unexpected-thrill-ride-on-tv |title=Election coverage an unexpected thrill ride on TV |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Boston.com]] |date=November 9, 2016 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108103941/https://www.boston.com/news/media/2016/11/09/election-coverage-an-unexpected-thrill-ride-on-tv |url-status=live }}</ref>
Crowley appeared in the [[Netflix]] original series of ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]'', portraying herself.


===Politics===
In election-day commentary in 2016 on Fox News, speaking of Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]]'s impending upset victory, Crowley said, "This is a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite class."<ref>Bauder, David, [https://www.boston.com/news/media/2016/11/09/election-coverage-an-unexpected-thrill-ride-on-tv "Election coverage an unexpected thrill ride on TV"], [[Associated Press|AP]] via ''boston.com'', November 9, 2016. Retrieved 2017-1-12.</ref> Following the election of President Donald Trump, it was announced in December 2016 that Crowley would join the Trump administration as a deputy national security advisor. Following this announcement, Fox News terminated her contract with the network at Crowley's request.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-terminates-monica-crowleys-contract-as-she-reportedly-takes-trump-job/|title=Fox News Terminates Monica Crowley’s Contract as She Reportedly Takes Trump Job|website=www.mediaite.com}}</ref>
As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former [[President of the United States|president]] [[Richard Nixon]], who hired her as a research assistant in 1990<ref>{{cite web |date=July 18, 2012 |title=Monica Crowley on Working for President Nixon |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_VUOP91jQ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/2F_VUOP91jQ |archive-date=2021-12-13 |publisher=[[Richard Nixon Foundation]] |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> when she was 22.<ref name="The News August 27, 1996">{{cite news |last=Romano |first=Carlin |date=August 27, 1996 |title=Taking good notes helped Monica Crowley, 27 |page=9A |work=[[Boca Raton News]] |agency=[[Knight Ridder]] |location=Boca Raton, Florida |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7mcQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K44DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3674,3303445&dq=monica-crowley&hl=en |access-date=2009-10-09 |via=[[Google News]] |df=mdy-all |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217040513/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7mcQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K44DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3674,3303445&dq=monica-crowley&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Crowley1998">{{cite book |last=Crowley |first=Monica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqW7WLucHvsC&pg=PR2 |title=Nixon in Winter: The Final Revelations |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=1998 |isbn=978-1-86064-266-1 |pages=2–}}</ref> She was an editorial advisor and consultant on Nixon's last two books, and following Nixon's death, she published two books about him: ''Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics'' and ''Nixon in Winter''.


In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of [[Douglas Schoen]] as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] industrialist and political figure [[Victor Pinchuk]]. Crowley registered as a foreign agent as required by the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Robbie|last=Gramer|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/14/trump-national-security-aide-registers-as-foreign-agent-for-ukrainian-oligarch-monica-crowley-plagiarism-scandal-victor-pinchuk-ukraine-billionaire/|title=One-Time Trump National Security Pick Registers As Foreign Agent for Ukrainian Oligarch|magazine=[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]|date=March 14, 2017|access-date=September 5, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303121940/https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/14/trump-national-security-aide-registers-as-foreign-agent-for-ukrainian-oligarch-monica-crowley-plagiarism-scandal-victor-pinchuk-ukraine-billionaire/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FARA">[https://www.fara.gov/docs/6071-Short-Form-20170310-2.pdf Short-Form Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224170938/https://www.fara.gov/docs/6071-Short-Form-20170310-2.pdf |date=February 24, 2018 }}, received by [[United States Department of Justice National Security Division]]/FARA Registration Unit 03/10/2017 4:46:57 PM.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Trump's pick for national security role now lobbying for Ukrainian tycoon |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/monica-crowley-ukraine-lobbying-victor-pinchuk-236037 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723093258/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/monica-crowley-ukraine-lobbying-victor-pinchuk-236037 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |access-date=2017-03-15 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref>
===Consulting===
In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of [[Douglas Schoen]] as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of Ukrainian industrialist and political figure [[Victor Pinchuk]]. Crowley registered as a foreign agent as required by the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938]].<ref>Robbie Gramer, [https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/14/trump-national-security-aide-registers-as-foreign-agent-for-ukrainian-oligarch-monica-crowley-plagiarism-scandal-victor-pinchuk-ukraine-billionaire/ One-Time Trump National Security Pick Registers As Foreign Agent for Ukrainian Oligarch] (March 14, 2017).</ref><ref name=FARA>[https://www.fara.gov/docs/6071-Short-Form-20170310-2.pdf Short Form Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended], received by [[United States Department of Justice National Security Division]]/FARA Registration Unit 03/10/2017 4:46:57 PM.</ref>


Following Trump's election victory, it was announced in December 2016 that Crowley would join the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] as a deputy national security advisor. Following this announcement,<ref name=":2">{{cite news |date=December 15, 2016 |title=Fox News Terminates Monica Crowley's Contract as She Reportedly Takes Trump Job |newspaper=Mediaite |url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-terminates-monica-crowleys-contract-as-she-reportedly-takes-trump-job/ |access-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117030828/https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-terminates-monica-crowleys-contract-as-she-reportedly-takes-trump-job/ |url-status=live }}</ref> on July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]].<ref name="tapped">{{cite news |last1=Bowden |first1=John |title=Trump taps Monica Crowley to be Treasury spokeswoman |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/453416-trump-announces-monica-crowley-to-be-treasury-department-spokeswoman |access-date=July 23, 2019 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=July 16, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002733/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/453416-trump-announces-monica-crowley-to-be-treasury-department-spokeswoman |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="appointed">{{cite web |title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Appoint Personnel to Key Administration Posts |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-appoint-personnel-key-administration-posts-13/ |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=July 23, 2019 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120202219/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-appoint-personnel-key-administration-posts-13/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Monica Crowley |url=https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/monica-crowley |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027205618/https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/monica-crowley |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |access-date=October 7, 2019 |website=U.S. Department of the Treasury}}</ref> Crowley replaced [[Tony Sayegh]], who left the position in May, as the top spokeswoman for [[Steven Mnuchin|Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/former-fox-news-contributor-monica-crowley-tapped-to-be-assistant-treasury-secretary/|title=Former Fox News Contributor Monica Crowley Tapped to Be Assistant Treasury Secretary|first=Lindsey|last=Ellefson|website=[[The Wrap]]|date=July 17, 2019|access-date=October 7, 2019|archive-date=September 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927174239/https://www.thewrap.com/former-fox-news-contributor-monica-crowley-tapped-to-be-assistant-treasury-secretary/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Crowley grew up in central New Jersey.<ref name="The News August 27, 1996"/>


Crowley is a contributor to [[Project 2025]]; her name is listed alongside the Nixon Seminar, of which she is a member.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leingang |first=Rachel |date=2024-12-09 |title=Project 2025: the Trump picks with ties to ultra-rightwing policy manifesto |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/project-2025-trump-picks |access-date=2024-12-15 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Crowley's brother-in-law was the late liberal political commentator [[Alan Colmes]], who was married to Crowley's sister, Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at [[Rutgers University]].<ref name="huffpo-sister">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/monica-crowley-sister-of_n_143462.html|title= Monica Crowley, Sister Of Alan Colmes' Wife Jocelyn|date=November 12, 2008|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=2009-10-17|first=Nicholas|last=Sabloff}}</ref>

On December 4, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that Crowley would be appointed as the Ambassador, [[United States Assistant Secretary of State|Assistant Secretary of State]], and [[Chief of Protocol of the United States|Chief of Protocol]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Laura |date=12 December 2024 |title=Trump picks Monica Crowley for senior State Department post |url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/5022387-trump-nominates-monica-crowley/ |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>

=== Plagiarism ===
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?74188-1/nixon-record ''Booknotes'' interview with Crowley on ''Nixon off the Record'', September 29, 1996], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Crowley has been shown to have committed extensive plagiarism, which she has denied. In 1999, Crowley was accused of [[plagiarism]] related to a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''<ref name=":1" /> which contained "striking similarities" (according to the ''Journal'') to a piece written 11 years earlier by [[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]].<ref name="Politico01">{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-phd-dissertation-columbia-214612 |first1=Alex |last1=Caton |first2=Grace |last2=Watkins |title=Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation |work=[[Politico]] |date=January 9, 2017 |access-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105072655/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-phd-dissertation-columbia-214612/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=NYT01>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/johnson-crowley.html|title=Media Talk; Journal Article on Nixon Conjures Deja Vu|first=Felicity|last=Barringer|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 16, 1999|access-date=January 10, 2017|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102035655/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/johnson-crowley.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When contacted by ''[[The New York Times]]'' for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."<ref name=NYT01/>

On January 7, 2017, [[CNN]] published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, ''[[What the (Bleep) Just Happened?]]'' The book includes about 50 examples of copying freely from published sources with no attribution given, including from [[Wikipedia]].<ref name="plagiarism">{{Cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/kfile-trump-monica-crowley-plagiarized-multiple-sources-2012-book/|title=Trump pick Monica Crowley plagiarized multiple sources in 2012 book|last=Kaczynski|first=Andrew|website=[[CNNMoney]]|date=January 7, 2017|access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-date=May 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518031524/https://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/kfile-trump-monica-crowley-plagiarized-multiple-sources-2012-book/|url-status=live}}</ref> In a statement, the [[First presidential transition of Donald Trump|Trump transition team]] called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her.<ref>{{cite news |last=Morin |first=Rebecca |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-report-233314 |title=Report: Trump's NSC comms pick plagiarized tracts in 2012 book |work=[[Politico]] |date=January 7, 2017 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-date=November 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106212056/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-report-233314 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two days later, on January 9, 2017, ''[[Politico]]'' reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.<ref name="Politico01" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-pick-monica-crowley-plagiarized-ph-d-dissertation-too.html|title=Trump National Security Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Ph.D. Dissertation Too|last=Hartmann|first=Margaret|newspaper=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=January 9, 2017|access-date=2017-01-10|archive-date=January 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131081132/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-pick-monica-crowley-plagiarized-ph-d-dissertation-too.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2019, an internal Columbia University investigation concluded that Crowley had engaged in “localized instances of plagiarism” but that the plagiarism did not meet the level of "research misconduct."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/monica-crowley-treasury-plagiarism-investigation.html|title=Columbia Inquiry Found Plagiarism in Monica Crowley's Dissertation|last=Rappeport|first=Alan|date=2019-12-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216082242/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/monica-crowley-treasury-plagiarism-investigation.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Shortly after reports emerged that she plagiarized the book ''What the (Bleep) Just Happened?'', the publisher of the book, [[HarperCollins]], announced:<ref name="Kaczynski">{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/10/media/kfile-harper-collins-monica-crowley/|title=HarperCollins pulls Trump pick Monica Crowley's book amid plagiarism revelations|last=Kaczynski|website=money.cnn.com|first=Andrew|date=10 January 2017|access-date=10 January 2017|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624123850/https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/10/media/kfile-harper-collins-monica-crowley/|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=The book, which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material.}}

On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. "I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities," she said in a statement.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-not-taking-position-in-trump-administration-233659 |title=Monica Crowley not taking role in Trump administration |last=Trudo |first=Hanna |work=[[Politico]] |date=January 16, 2017 |access-date=2017-01-16 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030847/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-not-taking-position-in-trump-administration-233659 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Times]]'', where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.<ref>Stephen Dinan, [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/crowley-forgo-post-trump-white-house/ Monica Crowley to forgo post in Trump White House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130062250/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/crowley-forgo-post-trump-white-house/ |date=January 30, 2021 }}, ''[[The Washington Times]]'' (January 16, 2017).</ref>

Crowley subsequently told Fox News host [[Sean Hannity]], "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."<ref name="Jagannathan">Meera Jagannathan, [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/monica-crowley-claims-plagiarism-charges-political-hit-job-article-1.2992303 Monica Crowley claims plagiarism allegations were ‘a despicable, straight-up, political hit job'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404143250/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/monica-crowley-claims-plagiarism-charges-political-hit-job-article-1.2992303 |date=April 4, 2019 }}, ''New York Daily News'' (March 8, 2017).</ref> [[Andrew Kaczynski]], the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"<ref name="Jagannathan"/> stating: "No one has yet to point out a single inaccuracy in our reporting or asked for a correction on it. Monica Crowley v. reality."<ref>Andrew Desiderio, [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/10/cnn-calls-b-s-on-monica-crowley-claiming-her-plagiarism-was-debunked.html CNN Calls B.S. on Monica Crowley Claiming Her Plagiarism Was Debunked'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529104823/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/10/cnn-calls-b-s-on-monica-crowley-claiming-her-plagiarism-was-debunked.html |date=May 29, 2017 }}, ''Daily Beast'' (March 10, 2017).</ref>

=== Obama conspiracy theories ===
Crowley has on multiple occasions spread [[Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/kfile-monica-crowley/index.html|title=Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: 'Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?'|last1=Kaczynski|first1=Andrew|date=July 25, 2019|work=[[CNN]]|access-date=July 25, 2019|last2=McDermott|first2=Nathan|archive-date=March 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311215449/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/kfile-monica-crowley/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center [[Park51]] in [[Lower Manhattan]] near the [[World Trade Center (2001–present)|World Trade Center]], Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, "How could he....support the enemy?" In 2013, she said that the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] had "found an ally" in Obama.<ref name=":0" />

In 2009, she noted that Obama used his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during his swearing in as president (which presidents typically do{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}), had early in his presidency ordered the closure of the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantánamo Bay detention camp]], and granted an interview to the media outlet [[Al Arabiya]], saying this "tells you where his head is and, possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin'."<ref name=":0" />

In 2011, Crowley said that [[Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|birther conspiracy theories]] about Obama raised legitimate concerns.<ref name=":0" />

In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an "Islamic community organizer" who was "conforming US policy to Islam and [[Sharia]]."<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life==
Crowley's brother-in-law was the late liberal political commentator [[Alan Colmes]], who was married to Crowley's sister, [[Jocelyn Elise Crowley]], a professor of public policy at [[Rutgers University]].<ref name="huffpo-sister">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/monica-crowley-sister-of_n_143462.html|title=Monica Crowley, Sister Of Alan Colmes' Wife Jocelyn|date=November 12, 2008|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=October 17, 2009|first=Nicholas|last=Sabloff|archive-date=October 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016094113/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/monica-crowley-sister-of_n_143462.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book | title=Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics | location= New York | publisher=Random House | year=1996 | isbn= 9780679456810 | oclc=473225114}}
* {{cite book | title=Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics | location=New York | publisher=Random House | year=1996 | isbn=9780679456810 | oclc=473225114 | url=https://archive.org/details/nixonoffrecord00crow }}
* {{cite book | title=Nixon in Winter | location= New York | publisher= Random House | year=1998 | isbn= 9780679456957 | oclc=37688321}}
* {{cite book | title= Nixon in Winter | location= New York | publisher= Random House | year= 1998 | isbn= 9780679456957 | oclc= 37688321 | url= https://archive.org/details/nixoninwinter00crow }}
* {{cite book | title=What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback | location= New York | publisher=Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | year=2012 | isbn= 9780062131157 | oclc=768800592}}
* {{cite book | title=What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback | location=New York | publisher=Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | year=2012 | isbn=9780062131157 | oclc=768800592 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780062131157 }}


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Monica Crowley
Chief of Protocol of the United States
Presumptive nominee
Assuming office
TBD
PresidentDonald Trump (elect)
SucceedingEthan Rosenzweig (acting)
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
In office
July 24, 2019 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byTony Sayegh
Succeeded byCalvin Mitchell
Personal details
Born
Monica Elizabeth Crowley

(1968-09-19) September 19, 1968 (age 56)
Fort Huachuca, Arizona, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
RelativesJocelyn Elise Crowley (sister)
EducationColgate University (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Signature

Monica Elizabeth Crowley[1] (born September 19, 1968) is the former assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She has been a political commentator and lobbyist. She was a Fox News contributor, where she worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In December 2016, the Donald Trump administration announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? and that there were "localized instances of plagiarism" of her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation that Columbia concluded did not meet the level of "research misconduct". On July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as spokesperson for the Treasury Department. On July 24, 2019, she was sworn into office.

Early life and education

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Crowley was born at Fort Huachuca,[2] an Army base located outside Sierra Vista, Arizona, and grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey. Crowley graduated from Watchung Hills Regional High School in 1986.[3]

She holds a BA in political science from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University (2000). There were "localized instances of plagiarism" in her dissertation at Columbia that Columbia concluded did not meet the level of "research misconduct".[4][5][6][7]

Career

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Media

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External videos
video icon [Nixon Off the Record] | C-SPAN.org Booknotes interview with Crowley on Nixon off the Record', September 29, 1996, C-SPAN

In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote a regular column for the New York Post.[8] She has also written for The New Yorker,[9] The Washington Times,[10] The Wall Street Journal,[11] the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun.

Crowley was a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition in the mid-1990s.[12] Since 2002, she hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, The Monica Crowley Show,[13] and she is a regular contributor to The John Batchelor Show.

In 1996, Crowley joined Fox News Channel, where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst and occasionally substituted for Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel's Hannity. In 2004, she joined MSNBC's Connected: Coast to Coast with co-host Ron Reagan. After a nine-month run, the last show aired on December 9, 2005. Crowley has also been a recurring guest on Imus in the Morning and has hosted the MSNBC broadcast The Best of Imus in the Morning. In 2007, she returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel. She was also a regular participant on The McLaughlin Group from late 2007 to 2011.

Crowley was an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night talk show; Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Since 2009, she has been a guest host for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor and his subsequent podcast and appeared opposite Alan Colmes on an episode of The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Barack and a Hard Place". She is also an occasional guest host on the daily (5:00 pm ET) Fox opinion show, The Five.

Crowley appeared in the TV series 24 in 2001, and in the Netflix original series House of Cards in 2013, portraying herself in both.[14] She has been a guest on The Colbert Report in 2005 (S1 • Episode 9)[15] and on Real Time With Bill Maher in 2003 (S1 • Episode 2).[16]

In election-day commentary in 2016 on Fox News, speaking of Republican candidate Donald Trump's impending upset victory, Crowley said, "This is a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite class."[17]

Politics

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As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former president Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990[18] when she was 22.[19][20] She was an editorial advisor and consultant on Nixon's last two books, and following Nixon's death, she published two books about him: Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics and Nixon in Winter.

In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of Douglas Schoen as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of Ukrainian industrialist and political figure Victor Pinchuk. Crowley registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.[21][22][23]

Following Trump's election victory, it was announced in December 2016 that Crowley would join the Trump administration as a deputy national security advisor. Following this announcement,[24] on July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department.[25][1][26] Crowley replaced Tony Sayegh, who left the position in May, as the top spokeswoman for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.[27]

Crowley is a contributor to Project 2025; her name is listed alongside the Nixon Seminar, of which she is a member.[28]

On December 4, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that Crowley would be appointed as the Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol.[29]

Plagiarism

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External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Crowley on Nixon off the Record, September 29, 1996, C-SPAN

Crowley has been shown to have committed extensive plagiarism, which she has denied. In 1999, Crowley was accused of plagiarism related to a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for The Wall Street Journal[11] which contained "striking similarities" (according to the Journal) to a piece written 11 years earlier by Paul Johnson.[5][30] When contacted by The New York Times for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."[30]

On January 7, 2017, CNN published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The book includes about 50 examples of copying freely from published sources with no attribution given, including from Wikipedia.[31] In a statement, the Trump transition team called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her.[32]

Two days later, on January 9, 2017, Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.[5][33] In December 2019, an internal Columbia University investigation concluded that Crowley had engaged in “localized instances of plagiarism” but that the plagiarism did not meet the level of "research misconduct."[34]

Shortly after reports emerged that she plagiarized the book What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, the publisher of the book, HarperCollins, announced:[35]

The book, which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material.

On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. "I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities," she said in a statement.[36] The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.[37]

Crowley subsequently told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."[38] Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"[38] stating: "No one has yet to point out a single inaccuracy in our reporting or asked for a correction on it. Monica Crowley v. reality."[39]

Obama conspiracy theories

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Crowley has on multiple occasions spread conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.[40] In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center Park51 in Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center, Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, "How could he....support the enemy?" In 2013, she said that the Muslim Brotherhood had "found an ally" in Obama.[40]

In 2009, she noted that Obama used his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during his swearing in as president (which presidents typically do[citation needed]), had early in his presidency ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, and granted an interview to the media outlet Al Arabiya, saying this "tells you where his head is and, possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin'."[40]

In 2011, Crowley said that birther conspiracy theories about Obama raised legitimate concerns.[40]

In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an "Islamic community organizer" who was "conforming US policy to Islam and Sharia."[40]

Personal life

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Crowley's brother-in-law was the late liberal political commentator Alan Colmes, who was married to Crowley's sister, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University.[41]

Bibliography

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  • Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics. New York: Random House. 1996. ISBN 9780679456810. OCLC 473225114.
  • Nixon in Winter. New York: Random House. 1998. ISBN 9780679456957. OCLC 37688321.
  • What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback. New York: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers. 2012. ISBN 9780062131157. OCLC 768800592.

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