Worked for Jeb Bush in 2016 campaign and was married by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2013. She has...an interesting circle of friends.
Samantha Vinograd - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Vinograd
After her studies, Vinograd joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury, working as deputy attaché to Iraq and as an International Economist during the George W. Bush administration.[6][7] In August 2009, during the Obama administration, she began her tenure at the National Security Council, where she served as director for Iraq, director for international economics, and as senior advisor to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon.[8][6][9] In 2013, she began to work for Goldman Sachs focusing on public-private sector partnerships. She later worked at Stripe, leading global public policy before joining CNN as a national security analyst.[6] For several years, Vinograd was also a Senior Advisor at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.[10][11] She has worked as an advisor to the US Fund for UNICEF, was named a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and serves on the board of the Women's Foreign Policy Group.[12] She co-founded Global Opportunity Advisors, a geopolitical risk and policy advisory firm, with Morgan Ortagus.[13] Vinograd began serving in the Biden administration as senior counselor for national security at Department of Homeland Security and acting Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in February 2021.[2] After her studies, Vinograd joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury, working as deputy attaché to Iraq and as an International Economist during the George W. Bush administration.[6][7]
In August 2009, during the Obama administration, she began her tenure at the National Security Council, where she served as director for Iraq, director for international economics, and as senior advisor to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon.[8][6][9] In 2013, she began to work for Goldman Sachs focusing on public-private sector partnerships. She later worked at Stripe, leading global public policy before joining CNN as a national security analyst.[6] For several years, Vinograd was also a Senior Advisor at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.[10][11]
She has worked as an advisor to the US Fund for UNICEF, was named a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and serves on the board of the Women's Foreign Policy Group.[12] She co-founded Global Opportunity Advisors, a geopolitical risk and policy advisory firm, with Morgan Ortagus.[13]
Vinograd began serving in the Biden administration as senior counselor for national security at Department of Homeland Security and acting Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in February 2021.[2]
Also a former CNN contributor.
After returning to the United States, Ortagus joined the private sector, first as global relationship manager at Standard Chartered Bank working with clients from Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and then in 2016 as executive director at Ernst & Young (EY), where she helped found EY's Geostrategic Business Group working on geopolitical risk analysis for investors.[3][5]
In 2013, she was the vice president of the board of the Friends of the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, based in Washington.[9]
Ortagus worked as national security contributor and Republican strategist at the Fox News Channel, appearing on Fox & Friends, Outnumbered, The Five and Mornings with Maria on the Fox Business Network.[3][5]
Ortagus and Samantha Vinograd co-founded GO Advisors, a geopolitical risk and policy advisory firm that focused on bridging divides between Wall Street and Silicon Valley with the White House and U.S. Treasury Department.[3][5]
Ortagus was on the National Board of Directors of Maverick PAC as National Co-Chair. The organization's co-founder said that Ortagus "turned the organization really into a new frontier."[7] She was also a member of the CNAS Council and Future of Sanctions Task Force, a member of the Institute for the Study of War's Advancement Committee, a board member to the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, a board member to the Friends of the American University of Afghanistan, and an advisor to Concordia where she contributed to the strategic direction and development of the organization's foreign and defense policy programming.[10] United States Department of State Ortagus with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 30, 2019
Ortagus returned to government in 2019 as Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, succeeding Heather Nauert.[2][3] Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin described Ortagus as a bridge between the establishment and more conservative wings of the Republican foreign policy communities, and wrote that she was friends with Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump.[3] She served until the end of the Trump Administration, going on maternity leave in November 2020.[11] During her tenure, she promoted the Abraham Accords, which brokered peace agreements between Israel and UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan.[8] Return to private sector
Post-government, Ortagus was a Senior Advisor for the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, but left by March 2022.[12] She also is a founding investor of Rubicon Founders, a health-care investment firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, in February 2021.[13]
Both of them are political animals who bounce back and forth between fedgov and the private sector because it's all about connections.
In the message, Ortagus divulges she would be “moving on and going back into the Navy Reserves,” before emphasizing that in doing so, she would be be “faithfully serving the incoming Biden Administration”:
As I’ve often said, no matter what happened with the election, I was moving on and going back into the Navy Reserves. Now, like most of you, I put the career hat back on (or rather my Navy uniform!) and go in to faithfully serving the incoming Biden Administration. Catch you on the other side!
Ortagus also praised her Biden-appointed successor, Ned Price, as “fantastic”:
PS—Ned is fantastic. You’re in great hands and he’s lucky to have all of you!
The leaked email follows intense scrutiny over Ortagus’s past comments attacking Trump prior to joining his administration.
“You have somebody who makes fun of people with mental and physical disabilities. That’s disgusting; there’s no other way around it,” remarked Ortagus in January 2016 during an interview with Fox News.
Ortagus, while working for a super PAC associated with Trump’s primary opponent former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said she “fundamentally disagree[d]” with Trump’s approach to foreign policy.
“In his gut, he does not think that Americans should be, quote unquote, the policemen of the world,” she said during a 2016 panel discussion dissecting Trump’s foreign policy speech.
“I don’t see it that way. I think that America is the glue that holds the world together. … So there were points that I agreed with him today, but overall, I fundamentally disagree with his isolationist approach to foreign policy,” she added.
Ortagus and her second husband were married by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2000.
