“Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who joined the White House staff last summer to manage President Trump’s communications operation, has resigned and will move to the re-election campaign,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Shine’s service as deputy White House chief of staff was seen as emblematic of how closely Mr. Trump has aligned himself with Fox, using the network to talk with his most fervent supporters and embracing lines of argument that its hosts advance on behalf of his policies and presidency.”

White House communications chief Bill Shine received an $8.4 million severance package upon leaving Fox News in May 2017 and will continue to be paid by the network for two more years, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The severance agreement expires on May 1, 2019.

Bill Shine, who was the co-president of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, has officially joined the Trump administration as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications, CNBC reports.

Shines “had resigned from Fox in May 2017, trailing the departure of Fox’s ex-chairman, Roger Ailes, who resigned 10 months earlier after being accused of sexual harassment by a former host. Less than a month before Shine resigned, evening talk-show juggernaut Bill O’Reilly was removed from the network amid his own allegations of sexual harassment.”

BuzzFeed News quotes a senior Fox News executive: “It’s extraordinary that the president of the United States could hire someone like this. This is someone who is highly knowledgeable of women being cycled through for horrible and degrading behavior by someone who was an absolute monster.”

“Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger Ailes, the network’s ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Shine, who was forced out as co-president at Fox last May for his handling of sexual harassment scandals at the network, has met with President Trump in recent weeks about taking the West Wing communications job, which has been vacant since Hope Hicks left the job in March.”