Monica Crowley Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Monica Crowley

• During her studies at Columbia University, some cases of plagiarism were found in her dissertation, but it was deemed not serious enough to be considered research misconduct.

• In the 1990s, she started writing a regular column for the New York Post.

• She then went on to write articles for The New Yorker, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun.

• In the mid-1990s, she worked as a commentator on the news show Morning Edition, which aired on NPR.

• When she was a student, she wrote letters to former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990 when she was 22.

• She helped Nixon with his last two books and later wrote two books about him, titled Nixon Off the Record and Nixon in Winter.
  

  The cover of the book Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley

• In 1996, she began working as a foreign affairs and political analyst at Fox News.

• In 1999, she was accused of copying parts of a Wall Street Journal article from an earlier piece by writer Paul Johnson.

• Crowley denied the accusation and said that she would never copy without giving credit.

• Since 2002, she has hosted her radio program called The Monica Crowley Show.

• She regularly appears on The John Batchelor Show, which airs on CBS.

  

  Monica Crowley on The John Batchelor Show

• In 2001, she appeared in the television series 24, which aired on the Fox Network.

• She then went on to appear in numerous television shows as a guest and actor, including Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) and The Colbert Report (2005), Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor (2009), House of Cards (2013), and The Five.

• In 2004, she co-hosted the show Connected: Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan, which aired on MSNBC. The show went off air in December 2005.

• She often appears as a guest and host on the television shows Imus in the Morning and The Best of Imus in the Morning.

• In 2007, she started working at Fox News as a contributor.

• From 2007 to 2011, she appeared on The McLaughlin Group, a chat show aired on American Public Television (APT).

• In 2007, she appeared as a panellist on the late-night show Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, which aired on Fox News.

• She once debated Alan Colmes in an episode titled ‘Barack and a Hard Place’ on the show The O’Reilly Factor, which aired on Fox News.

• In 2009, she criticised Barack Obama for using his full name during his swearing-in and giving an interview to Al Arabiya.

• In 2010, Crowley repeatedly claimed that Obama was secretly a Muslim. She questioned his support for an Islamic centre near Ground Zero and called it support for ‘the enemy.’

• In 2013, she said that the Muslim Brotherhood had ‘found an ally’ in Barack Obama.

• In 2015, she wrote an article in which she called Barack Obama an ‘Islamic community organiser,’ who was shaping U.S. policy to match Islamic law.

• During the 2016 election night, she commented on Donald Trump’s win on Fox News. She said it was a revolt by regular people against the elite.
  

  Monica Crowley with Donald Trump

• After Trump won the 2016 election, it was announced that Crowley would join his administration as a deputy national security advisor.

• In 2017, she worked as a part-time consultant for Ukrainian politician Victor Pinchuk and registered as a foreign agent.
  

  Monica Crowley during her stint as a consultant for Ukrainian politician Victor Pinchuk

• In January 2017, CNN reported about 50 cases of copied content in her 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened? It also included the content from Wikipedia.

• Trump’s team dismissed the report and called it politically motivated.
  

  The cover of the book What the (Bleep) Just Happened?

• After being accused of copying parts of her book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, the publisher HarperCollins pulled the book.

• Politico later found more copied content in her 2000 Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University.

• On 16 January 2017, Monica Crowley withdrew from her White House role. She said that she chose to stay in New York.

• During the same time, The Washington Times, where she had worked earlier, also began checking her past work for plagiarism.

• Crowley later claimed on Fox News that the scandal was a ‘political hit job’ and had been ‘debunked.’

• CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski, who broke the story, rejected her defence and said that no errors had been found in the report.

• In 2019, Columbia University said that there were ‘localised instances of plagiarism’ in her thesis, but did not label it as serious misconduct.

• In July 2019, Donald Trump appointed her as an Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department.

• After that, she became the lead spokesperson for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

• On 4 December 2024, Trump announced that she would be named U.S. Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol.

• Crowley worked on Project 2025, a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States, and was a member of the Nixon Seminar.

• Monica Crowley’s sister, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, was married to Alan Colmes, a well-known liberal political commentator.