GOP lawmaker gets engaged to Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is engaged to Jacqui Heinrich, a senior White house correspondent with Fox News.
Heinrich confirmed the engagement herself in a post on the social platform X on Tuesday that featured a link to a People magazine exclusive article on it.
“Fact check: true,” Heinrich said in her post.
According to the People article, when Fitzpatrick asked to marry Heinrich in France late last month, Heinrich answered in the affirmative. People reported that Henrich said that the proposal from Fitzpatrick came in a lavender field at sunrise.
Heinrich also said that, according to People, a prior Boston Globe interview laid the foundation for the proposal, with Henrich saying during the interview she had had a dream for a while to visit the French Riviera "to eat the baguettes, see the lavender fields, drink the wine and eat the butter."
Heinrich has previously been the target of an attack from President Trump, with the president saying in March that he had “watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible.”
“She should be working for CNN, not Fox. Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!” he added in a Truth Social post.
Heinrich in February sharply criticized the White House's decision to take over the press pool from the White House Correspondents Association. She was backed at the time by the longtime Fox News political commentator Brit Hume.