Donald Trump hires ex-Fox News executive Bill Shine ‘who covered up sex scandals’ as new communications chief
The former co-president of Fox News resigned his position amid accusations that he had covered up reports of sexual harassment against other top executives at the network.
US President Donald Trump has hired a former top Fox News executive who was accused of covering up sexual harassment scandals to lead his communications team.
Bill Shine, the former co-president of Fox News, was appointed on Thursday as the White House’s deputy chief of staff for communications and assistant to the president.
Shine’s hiring comes more than a year after he resigned from Fox News in the wake of the sexual assault allegations against Roger Ailes, the network’s late former chairman.
The former Fox exec had been accused of covering up the allegations against Ailes and former host Bill O’Reilly, who faced his own accusations of sexual misconduct and subsequently left Fox News in April 2017.
Shine was never accused of sexual harassment himself, but several women said in court documents that he had ignored or sought to suppress their charges of misconduct at the network. Shine, who resigned in May 2017, has denied those allegations.
In announcing Shine’s hiring, the White House cited his tenure at Fox News: “He brings over two decades of television programming, communications and management experience to the role.”
