Trump names former Fox News personalities Mark Levin and Bo Dietl to DHS advisory board
Source: MSNBC
Trump names former Fox News personalities Mark Levin and Bo Dietl to DHS advisory board
The Trump administration is filled with former members of conservative media, and Levin and Dietl now join that list.
April 21, 2025, 3:54 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
President Donald Trump’s habit of selecting former media personalities for top government roles hasn’t gone well, to put it mildly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former weekend Fox News host, shared military secrets in a group chat that included the editor-in-chief of a national magazine — a scandal that has metastasized in recent days. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, a former Fox News contributor, is overseeing a Federal Aviation Administration that has laid off staff amid a raft of deadly flight incidents that the White House claims, to the dismay of the FAA staffers' union, is unrelated to those cuts. Those are perhaps the most glaring examples.
But these fumbles don’t seem to have deterred Trump from plucking names from conservative media to place in his administration. (You can read a list of personalities Trump has plucked from Fox News alone here.) Now, we can add radio host Mark Levin and political commentator Bo Dietl to the list, as Trump announced last week that both will serve on a Department of Homeland Security advisory council. In his announcement on social media, Trump also said South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters will join the panel, which works alongside DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
A website for the Homeland Security Advisory Council lists its duties:
• “Provides organizationally independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary, including the creation and implementation of critical and actionable policies for the security of the homeland.”
• “Conducts research and provides policy analysis and recommendations on a variety of security issues.”
• “Evaluates the impact of security related public and private policies in an attempt to formulate prospective security policies.”
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