That Didn't Last Long...

Move over Anthony Scaramucci….

Former WTTG (DC) Chief Investigative Reporter Emily Miller tied the former White House Comms Director for shortest government job tenure, of just 11 days.

Miller worked at the Fox O&O in DC, leaving the job in 2016 to join the hard-right network One America News.

Miller then landed a land as the spokeswoman for the FDA, but it didn’t last very long.

Miller a strong supporter of Donald Trump, was removed Friday by FDA commissioner Stephen M. Hahn after less than two weeks on the job.

The FDA did not comment on her ouster but has removed her name from the Twitter account designated for use by the FDA spokesperson.

The Daily Beast writes that Miller’s ouster follows a contentious week at the federal agency, after officials inflated the benefits of convalescent plasma as a treatment for the coronavirus, sparking condemnation from health experts around the country. Under her leadership, the agency put out a press release touting the treatment as a “another achievement” in the administration’s “fight against the pandemic”—a boastful tone that veteran health journalists said was virtually unheard of for the nonpartisan agency. 

Miller responded to one such criticism of the press release on Twitter, writing simply: “So?”

The spokeswoman also refused to remove a tweet citing misleading data over the benefits of the treatment, despite the fact that Hahn apologized for repeating the same statistic in a press conference. The tweet, sent from the FDA spokesperson account during Miller’s tenure, claimed that convalescent plasma has “shown to be beneficial for 35% of patients.” A follow-up tweet noted that the study only examined patients given convalescent plasma with a high level of antibodies from COVID-19 to those given plasma with low levels.

Miller’s appointment initially drew scrutiny from those familiar with her work in conservative media, especially at OANN—a competitor to Fox News that skews even further to the right.

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