Top Cruz Aide Tapped for Senior Role on Trump National Security Team

The Washington Free Bacon ^ | 01/30/2017 | Adam Kredo

[ForYourChildren]

A senior adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) who played a critical role in crafting his national security agenda—including efforts to stop the Iran nuclear deal and designate the Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist entity—has been tapped by the Trump National Security Council to serve as senior director for strategic assessments, a role that encompasses the fight against terrorist forces, the Washington Free Beacon can exclusively reveal.

Victoria Coates, a top Cruz aide and his longtime confidante, has departed the senator's office to serve as senior director for strategic assessments in the new White House NSC, a role that will see Coates managing long-term threats to the United States.

Coates worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry before joining the Cruz office in 2013. She also is an art historian who recently published a book on the history of democracy.

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[2ndDivisionVet]

Payback for all that data analytics help? Google Cambridge Analytica.

[DoughtyOne]

She also is an art historian who recently published a book on the history of democracy.

[ConservativeMind]

Nothing screams “National Policy Wonk” more than and “Art major.”

[txhurl]

Here come the dumb@$$e$.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It’s like the “two minutes hate” in that movie.

[bigbob]

“Art History” dammit! So she knows, like, the history of Art and stuff.

[SharpRightTurn]

“A senior adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) who played a critical role in crafting his national security agenda—including efforts to stop the Iran nuclear deal and designate the Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist entity—has been tapped by the Trump National Security Council”

Sounds promising. The MB needs to be declared a terrorist outfit pronto.

[thinden]

Sounds good to me.

If she contributes half as much as another cruz staffer, kelly anne it will be another win.

Credit to cruz for putting his staff together with this much talent.