It would be unusual if conservative commentator Scott Jennings left the CNN studio for the White House briefing room as President Donald Trump’s next press secretary, but not unprecedented.

When Pat Buchanan returned to the White House to serve as communications director for President Ronald Reagan in 1985, he had already been a top pundit at a time when Fox News didn’t exist and there still weren’t a lot of conservatives on television.

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