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In the 2000s, she blogged mainly about foreign policy under the pen name “AcademicElephant” at the Conservative blog RedState.[4] Her blog posts were read by aides of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later recruited Coates to work as an advisor for his book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, published in 2011.[4]
Coates served as an advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry during his 2012 presidential bid before she became an advisor to Ted Cruz in 2013 and his leading national security advisor during his 2016 presidential campaign.[4]
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/victoria-coates/
Coates, who has a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, has been a contributor to the conservative blog, RedState, as well as the William Kristol-edited Weekly Standard.[5]
Husband:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-coates-jr-1934a727
How in the H E double toothpicks does an art history major even begin to qualify as a national security advisor????