Washington – Trump Names State Spokeswoman Nauert For UN Ambassador, Says will Nominate Barr For Attorney General

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    FILE - Spokesperson Heather Nauert (L) speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a dialogue with reporters in his plane while flying from Panama to Mexico, October 18, 2018. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoWashington – President Donald Trump announced Friday he’s nominating State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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    “Heather Nauert will be nominated,” Trump said Friday before departing the White House on Marine One for an event in Kansas City. “She’s very talented, very smart, very quick, and I think she’s going to be respected by all.”

    If she is confirmed by the Senate, Nauert, a former Fox News Channel reporter who had little foreign policy experience before becoming State Department spokeswoman, will replace Nikki Haley. Haley, a former South Carolina governor, announced in October that she would step down at the end of this year. Nauert would be a leading administration voice on Trump’s foreign policy.

    Trump told reporters last month that Nauert was “excellent,” adding, “She’s been a supporter for a long time.”

    Trump also said he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, to serve in the same role.

    Trump made the announcement while departing the White House for a trip to Missouri. He called Barr “a terrific man” and “one of the most respected jurists in the country.”

    “I think he will serve with great distinction,” Trump said.
    FILE - In this Nov. 26, 1991, file photo, President George H.W Bush, right, and William Barr wave after Barr was sworn in as the new Attorney General of the United States at a Justice Department ceremony in Washington. Barr, who served as attorney general under Bush, has emerged as a top contender for that job in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, two people familiar with the president's selection process said Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)
    If confirmed by the Senate, Barr would succeed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was forced out by Trump in November following an acrimonious tenure. Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, is currently serving as acting attorney general.

    Barr was attorney general between 1991 and 1993, serving in the Justice Department at the same Mueller oversaw the department’s criminal division. Barr later worked as a corporate general counsel and is currently of counsel at a prominent international law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

    Plucked from Fox by the White House to serve as State Department spokeswoman, Nauert catapulted into the upper echelons of the agency’s hierarchy when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired in March and replaced with Mike Pompeo. Nauert was then appointed acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs and was for a time the highest-ranking woman and fourth highest-ranking official in the building.

    Nauert, who did not have a good relationship with Tillerson and had considered leaving the department, told associates at the time she was taken aback by the promotion offer and recommended a colleague for the job. But when White House officials told her they wanted her, she accepted.

    That role gave her responsibilities far beyond the news conferences she held in the State Department briefing room. She oversaw public diplomacy in Washington and all of the roughly 275 overseas U.S. embassies, consulates and other posts. She was in charge of the Global Engagement Center that fights extremist messaging from the Islamic State group and others, and she has a seat on the U.S. Agency for Global Media that oversees government broadcast networks such as Voice of America.

    Just 18 months ago, she wasn’t even in government.

    Nauert was a breaking news anchor on Trump’s favorite television show, “Fox & Friends,” when she was tapped to be the face and voice of the administration’s foreign policy. With a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she had moved to Fox from ABC News, where she was a general assignment reporter. She hadn’t specialized in foreign policy or international relations.

    Shut out from the top by Tillerson and his inner circle, Nauert developed relationships with career diplomats. Barred from traveling with Tillerson, she embarked on her own overseas trips, visiting Bangladesh and Myanmar last year to see the plight of Rohingya Muslims, and then Israel after a planned stop in Syria was scrapped. All the while, she stayed in the good graces of the White House, even as Tillerson was increasingly on the outs.

    White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Nauert in March as “a team player” and “a strong asset for the administration.”


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    NJMoshe
    NJMoshe
    5 years ago

    We should all be proud of our President’s choice, who apparently is unaware of the Holocaust. She said yesterday: “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany. Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that launched the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion.”

    Government by Fox News, including Bill Shine, Heather Nauert, John Bolton, Joe DiGenova, K.T. McFarland, Tony Sayegh. Also Cuddles from CNBC, a man who has never been right about anything, including 2008.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    5 years ago

    Trump proves the wisdom and political acumen of washington, franklin and the 3rd founder. A rich misfit like trump becomes president, ridicules people and has elevated the ignormasus to his elite. Tillerson was the chairman of Exxon Mobil the biggest energy company in the world and read his comment. Maybe he needs another porn star to reawaken his cerebral synapses

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    A collection of garbage, come Jan 1st we will IMPACH the Toxic Trumf