“After much reflection I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities and will not be taking a position in the incoming administration,” Monica Crowley says. | Getty Monica Crowley not taking role in Trump administration

Republican strategist Monica Crowley will not assume a senior foreign policy communications role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, she said in a statement on Monday.

“After much reflection I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities and will not be taking a position in the incoming administration,” the statement reads. “I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump’s team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.”


Crowley was summoned to work for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick for national security adviser, as senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, but faced scrutiny over recent weeks when CNN exposed multiple passages that appeared to be plagiarized in her 2012 book, “What the (Bleep) Just Happened.”

Flynn expressed regret that Crowley will not join the National Security Council under Trump.

“The NSC will miss the opportunity to have Monica Crowley as part of our team. We wish her all the best in her future,” he said in a statement.

Following CNN's report, POLITICO independently counted more than a dozen instances in which Crowley lifted passages from other sources for her 2000 Ph.D dissertation.