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A Fox News host is waiting in the bushes to pounce on Sean Spicer’s job.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a controversial co-host of “The Five,” told Bay Area News Group on Monday she’s in talks with Team Trump to become the administration’s next press secretary.
“I’m a patriot, and it would be an honor to serve the country,” Guilfoyle told the outlet. “I think it’d be a fascinating job, it’s a challenging job, and you need someone really determined and focused, a great communicator in there with deep knowledge to be able to handle that position.”
The 48-year-old cable news personality — who says she has known President Trump over a decade — declined to delve into specifics. But “a number of people” at the White House have raised her potential hiring, she said.
Guilfoyle, who’d emerged as a rumored contender for the job in December, gave her interview after several reports indicated Trump was considering axing the beleaguered Spicer as part of a broad staffing shakeup.
She reportedly also appeared to dole out advice on the flack job during one of her shows last week.
“If you want to be successful and do communications with President Trump, you have to be someone who he actually wants to spend a little bit of time with,” she said.
“You’ve got to insist on getting in front of POTUS, talk to him, and have like five, six minutes with him before you go out there and take the podium, and otherwise you’re driving blind.”
Guilfoyle awkwardly wished her possible predecessor “the best” in her chat with the news outlet.
“Sean Spicer is a very nice man and a patriot; he’s dedicated himself to this public service,” she said. “Very tough position he’s in — I wish him the best, and I know he puts a lot of effort into it.”
A rep for Fox said, “Kimberly is a valued member of the FOX News primetime lineup, and is under a long-term contract with the network.”
In a statement released by the network, Guilfoyle said, “As I stated in the interview, I really love what I do and my job co-hosting ‘The Five’ is tough to beat.”
A White House spokesperson didn’t immediately return the Daily News’ request for comment.
But since Guilfoyle’s eyes seem set on that briefing room podium, let’s take a look — courtesy of watchdog Media Matters for America — at what the possible next press secretary has said on some hot topics:
On the Russia investigation
Guilfoyle — questioning former acting attorney general Sally Yates’ testimony that ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised — regurgitated the Trump claim that former director of national intelligence James Clapper said there was “no evidence” of collusion between Russia and his campaign. Clapper has since clarified his remarks “should not be considered exculpatory.”
On Vladimir Putin
Guilfoyle in 2014 suggested putting the Russian President in charge for a day or two to defeat ISIS:
“I mean, can I just make a special request in the magic lamp? Can we get like (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and like Putin in for 48 hours, you know, head of the United States? I don’t know. I just want somebody to get in here and get it done right.”
In a Sept. 8 discussion of Trump’s “fondness for autocrats,” the co-host also called it “more of a strength model to say that Putin will do what it takes to defend his country.”
On the dismissal of James Comey
“Another historic day in the presidency of Donald J. Trump. I mean, he did something that was bold, that was decisive, was an excellent leadership decision. As a former prosecutor, I thought that Comey’s behavior was abhorrent during this whole process and the investigation,” Guilfoyle said May 9 on Fox Business.
“He really overstepped his bounds right from the beginning when he made a determination — a legal determination — as to whether or not a case could be brought against Hillary Clinton. That was the beginning of the end, and then after that he really kept inserting himself into the public arena.”
On Trump’s court-stymied travel ban
“We are trying to make sure that people that want to do us harm don’t get into this country, right? So you lock your door at night … Not because you don’t like the people outside but because you love the people that are inside and you want to keep them safe,” she said Feb. 7.
“That is common sense. So it’s not meant to be, you know, discriminatory on its face, it’s not a quote ‘Muslim ban.’ It is a travel suspension. But nevertheless, the way that this came across and the way it was put forward, people were not able to wrap their heads around it because it wasn’t presented in the right way.”
On Steve Bannon
The TV host defended the White House chief strategist Feb. 3 after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called him “a white supremacist.”
“He is not a white supremacist and she shouldn’t slander him by saying this. It’s really conduct unbecoming. She has no proof to back that up. It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” she said.
On Jeff Sessions
The attorney general, who has criticized consent decrees aimed at spurring police reform, also wins a spot on Guilfoyle’s good side:
“I feel like Chuck Schumer is behaving in a way that he hasn’t in the past, and is now taking on this role politically because it is expedient,” she said Feb. 9.
“And for him to say that about Sessions, who is widely admired by his colleagues as someone who was a civil rights champion, it’s really, to me, unbecoming that he’s making these comments.”
On her former boss Roger Ailes
Guilfoyle defended the disgraced Fox News chief last summer in the wake of former anchor Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment suit.
“I’ve known Roger Ailes for 15 years and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect … This is a man who champions women,” she told TVNewser in July.