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Gingrich has been wrong before. In 2012, after failing in his own bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he predicted that Mitt Romney would crush Barack Obama and that Republicans would take control of the Senate. He was wrong on both counts. Back in 1998, he predicted that Republicans would pick up six to 30 seats, but they ended up losing five and he was ousted as Speaker.

Gingrich helped lead the modern Republican Party far to the right in the 1990s. For the past 20 years, he has been promoting what Right Wing Watch in 2016 called “the Christian Right’s revisionist history, beliefs about a divinely inspired American exceptionalism, anti-Obama conspiracy theories and diatribes about the supposed war on Christianity in the U.S.” That’s why some Christian nationalists energetically encouraged Trump to pick Gingrich as his running mate in 2016.

Trump appointed Gingrich’s former mistress and third wife, Callista Gingrich, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See during his first term; she currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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President Donald Trump had big plans for outspoken MAGA ally Kari Lake, but with those plans having thoroughly imploded, a new MS NOW analysis explained how she has been given a familiar "consolation prize."

Lake first emerged as a news anchor in Phoenix, Arizona, before making the jump to politics as an avowed supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement. Despite high hopes for her as a future star for the Republican Party, the transition largely flopped, as she lost the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race to Democrat Katie Hobbs and the 2024 Senate race to Democrat Ruben Gallego.

With no actual electoral success to her name, Trump attempted to install her as the next director for Voice of America, the international broadcaster funded by the U.S. government, amid plans to gut the institution and reshape it into a more right-wing form with the help of One America News. This effort, too, fell flat after a judge ruled that she was ineligible to serve at the head of VOA, invalidating her tenure and reversing the mass layoffs she had overseen.

In the wake of all that failure, Trump on Monday nominated Lake to serve as the new ambassador to Jamaica, echoing an emerging pattern of the president placing close allies in key diplomatic roles.

"President Trump on Monday appointed Kari Lake, a fierce ally of the president who had led the administration’s efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups, as the next ambassador to Jamaica," the New York Times reported this week. "Her appointment, if confirmed by the Senate, would end her tumultuous time at the parent agency for federally funded news groups that broadcast to countries with limited press freedom, such as China, Russia and Iran."

Writing about the development on Tuesday, Steve Benen, a longtime contributor and producer for MS NOW, wrote that the appointment of Lake fit a growing pattern from the administration and its handling of MAGA allies with failed political ambitions.

"Lake’s nomination coincided with the president also tapping Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano — another prominent Republican election denier who launched a gubernatorial campaign that failed — to serve as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia," Benen wrote. "The far-right state senator will also need to be confirmed by the Republican-led Senate. Time will tell when and whether Lake and Mastriano receive the support they’ll need on Capitol Hill, but their nominations are emblematic of a larger pattern: The White House sure does like to hand out ambassadorships to those whose earlier political plans didn’t quite work out."

Benen further detailed the various names who received a similar parachute from Trump: Mike Waltz was named U.N. ambassador after being ousted as White House national security adviser; former GOP Rep. Billy Long went from an "incredibly short tenure" leading the IRS to serving as ambassador to Iceland; and, John Giordano went from a failed interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey to serving as the ambassador to Namibia.

"Even Kristi Noem, after her many failures as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made the transition to a diplomatic role as 'special envoy' to the Shield of the Americas, a poorly defined security initiative for the Western Hemisphere," Benen concluded. "As an Associated Press report summarized last year, 'Diplomacy may be soft power, but in President Donald Trump’s administration, it’s also lately a soft landing.'

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Landa has repeatedly filed lawsuits in response to allegations against nursing homes with which he is affiliated. In 2022, he brought a suit for libel against The American Prospect, as well as one of its reporters and an editor, following an investigation titled “The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto.” Years earlier, he sued freelancers writing for ProPublica, also alleging defamation. Judges dismissed both cases.

Landa’s nomination remains under consideration by the Senate Foreign Relations committee. (No hearing has been scheduled.) But if confirmed as ambassador to Hungary, Landa would hold a powerful position.

Hungary, despite its small population and historically minor role in U.S. foreign policy, holds increasing symbolic importance in the global conservative movement.

In a mid-February visit to Budapest, Trump administration officials reinforced their support for Orban. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an agreement to nurture Hungary’s civilian nuclear program. (The country does not presently have nuclear weapons, according to the World Nuclear Association, an international organization that publishes reports on global nuclear activity.)

“We are entering this golden era of relations between our countries,” Rubio in Budapest, “not simply because of the alignment of our people, but because of the relationship that you have with the president of the United States.”

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Danish leaders are on edge after President Donald Trump invaded Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro. A top Trump insider posted on X that Greenland might be next.

Mere hours after Trump's attack on Venezuela, right-wing podcaster Katie Miller, who is married to top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, posted a map of Greenlandon X with the U.S. stars and stripes across the land.

"SOON," she wrote.

The Guardian explained that the territory is "mineral-rich," making it appealing to Trump's ongoing efforts to secure rare-earth minerals and oil from other countries. Greenland is part of the NATO alliance.

The Guardian quoted Copenhagen’s ambassador to the U.S., Jesper Møller Sørensen, who reposted Miller’s comments, saying, "Just a friendly reminder about the US and the Kingdom of Denmark: We are close allies and should continue to work together as such. US security is also Greenland’s and Denmark’s security. Greenland is already part of NATO. The Kingdom of Denmark and the United States work together to ensure security in the Arctic. The Kingdom of Denmark has significantly boosted its Arctic security efforts - in 2025 alone, we committed USD 13,7 bn that can be used in the Arctic and North Atlantic. Because we take our joint security seriously."

"And yes, we expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark," he added.

The Guardian noted that when Trump named former Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.) as a "special envoy to Greenland," the Louisianan called it an "honor" to work on "mak[ing] Greenland a part of the US."

On Saturday, Landry celebrated Trump's arrest of Maduro.

“Having served as a sheriff’s deputy and AG, I have seen the devastating effects of illegal drugs on American families. With over 100k opioid-related deaths annually, I am grateful to see a President finally take real action in the war on drugs,” he posted on X.

“Thank you @realDonaldTrump for holding individuals like Maduro accountable," he added.

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Benjamin Leon Jr. is a Cuban-American entrepreneur who founded a chain of healthcare centers in the Miami area. In January, Trump nominated Leon to be US Ambassador to Spain.

• Industry: Healthcare
• Past donations to Trump: Gave more than $3.8 million to Trump’s campaigns and pro-Trump PACs in 2020 and 2024.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy a financier, art collector, and MAGA megadonor with no military experience is coming under fire.

“It is my great honor to announce John Phelan as our next United States Secretary of the Navy!” declared Trump in a statement, deviating from his usual habit of acknowledging their status as a nominee. “John will be a tremendous force for our Naval Servicemembers, and a steadfast leader in advancing my America First vision. He will put the business of the U.S. Navy above all else.”

Trump claimed, “John has excelled in every endeavor, from founding and leading Rugger Management LLC, to co-founding MSD Capital, LP, the Private Investment Firm for Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies. His Record of Success speaks for itself – A true Champion of American Enterprise and Ingenuity!”

READ MORE: MTG Claims Biden Is ‘Starting a Nuclear War’ Over Debunked Claim of Giving Nukes Back to Ukraine

The Independent noted, “According to the U.S. Code,the secretary of the Navy shall be appointed ‘from among persons most highly qualified for the position by reason of background and experience.'”

Phelan “donated $834,600 to Trump’s joint fundraising committee, Trump 47,” back in April, according to The Hill. In August, at his $38 million Aspen estate, Phelan hosted a “$25,000 to $500,000 a couple” fundraiser that reportedly generated $12 million for Trump.

“The dinner, which Trump reportedly flew in for on a private jet once owned by disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was held at the $38 million home of art collectors and investors John and Amy Phelan, with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), gambling mogul Steve Wynn, and billionaire Thomas Peterffy also in attendance,” The Daily Beast reported. “There were about 100 attendees at the event, which required couples to pony up $500,000 to serve on the host committee or at least $25,000 to attend at all.”

“If confirmed,” The Military Times reports, “Phelan would be the first permanent Navy secretary without military experience since 2009, when Donald Winter finished up his three-year term in the role. Unlike Winter, who previously had worked within the Pentagon and on Navy contracts at major defense firms, Phelan has little public connection to the sea service.”

Winter was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush.

READ MORE: ‘Where Did All the Money Go?’: Trump DNI Pick Tulsi Gabbard Has Multiple PACs, Report Says

“Of the 26 men to be confirmed as Navy secretary over the last 70 years, all but six have been veterans,” The Military Times also noted.

Critics are pointing to Phelan’s lack of relevant experience.

Paul Rieckhoff, the veterans’ activist and founder of Independent Veterans of America, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), and Righteous Media, blasted Trump’s pick.

He warned, “of course, Phelan has not served in the Navy. Or any other branch of military service. But he is a big Trump donor. The least qualified and most overtly political cabinet in American history continues to expand. And #OurEnemiesAreCelebrating.”

Veteran foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen, pointing to Phelan’s bio at the nonprofit Spirit of America and the London School of Economics and Political Science, writes, “Harvard MBA, art collector, manages fund of Michael Dell’s money. dont see anything in his bio that has any national security.”

Kevin Baron, the award-winning military journalist and former executive editor of Defense One, responding to a report on Phelan’s nomination, wrote, “Who?”

READ MORE: ‘Much Like the 11th Century’: Trump Defense Pick Called for American ‘Crusade’

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One of President Donald Trump's appointees has been prevented from even having a confirmation hearing as a result of one Senate Republican's efforts.

NBC News reported Monday that former Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) is still awaiting a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee more than eight months after Trump officially announced his nomination as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who defeated Walker in a bitter Republican primary in 2022, is reportedly to blame for the delay, with NBC reporting that Budd has been working "behind the scenes" to derail Walker's hopes of confirmation.

According to the outlet, both the White House and two other Republican sources have confirmed that Budd is obstructing Walker's confirmation, though Trump has yet to publicly call out North Carolina's junior U.S. senator. Walker's supporters are reportedly "furious" at Budd over his hold, per NBC's sources.

"No one has more support from Cabinet members, from senators, from House members, from top leaders of faith than this nomination. Yet, for some reason, he’s not been able to get a hearing, while other people have been nominated, even as late as summer, early fall, and are already in their positions," one Republican anonymously confided to NBC.

"So who’s stopping the nomination?" The GOP source continued. "Who is it that is preventing this ambassador position to get out there and advocate on behalf of the thousands of Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted, targeted and even killed? Why is one person playing politics on all this?"

Budd has not yet publicly acknowledged the reports or given a reason for opposing his confirmation. His spokesperson, Christian McMullen, would only say that Budd was unable to place an official hold on Walker's nomination given that only committee members can do so.

"Sen. Budd is not a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but if Mark Walker’s nomination advances to the floor, Sen. Budd would vote in favor of his nomination," McMullen said.

Presidential nominations only last until the Senate adjourns at the end of each year. This means that if Trump wants Walker for the role, he'll have to renominate him in January if he isn't confirmed by the end of the month.

Click here to read NBC's full report.

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**President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Appoint Individuals to Key Administration Posts**

whitehouse.gov ^| December 22, 2020 | President Donald J Trump

Posted on 12/22/2020, 1:03:41 PM by **ransomnote**

Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration:

Pam Bondi, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Edward McMullen, Jr., of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Paolo Zampolli, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Hope Charlotte Hicks, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Derek S. Lyons, of Texas, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Amy Hanson Swonger, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Richard Grenell, of California, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Martin Oliner, of New York, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Susan Levine, of Arizona, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Tim Pataki, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution.

Stephanie Grisham, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Jeremy Carl, of Montana, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Russell Vought,of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy.

Alexander B. Gray, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Academy.

Francis John Brooke, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Steven W. Spandle, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Chas Fagan, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., of Georgia, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Perry Guillot, of New York, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Ezra Cohen,of the District of Columbia, to be a Member and Chairperson of the Public Interest Declassification Board.

Julie Strauss, of Virginia, to be a Member of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.

Peter Lamelas, MD, of Florida, to be a Member of the Medal of Valor Review Board.

Gregory Smith, of Utah, to be the United States Commissioner of the Upper Colorado River Commission.

Buffie Anderson, of Texas, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Kurt A. Kondrich, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Kristin Yodock, of California, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Marcus David Bachmann, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Norma Thompson, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.

Jennie Stapp, of Montana, to be a Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.

Guy Pinkman, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Lynn Franzoi, of California, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Preston Crabill, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Sheriff Grady Judd, of Florida, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Michael J. Gableman, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Von L. Best, of Texas, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Rachel Fulton Brown, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Jenni Sue Jessen, of Colorado, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Kwami P. Adoboe-Herrera, of Ohio, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Katherine McGibbon, of Texas, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Ethan Baker, of Michigan, to be a Commissioner of the United States Section on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

Carrie Castille, of Louisiana, to be Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Juan Carlos Benítez, of Guam, to be a Member of the President’s Export Council

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-allies/

Trump is rewarding more than two dozen current and former administration officials and others with prestigious government appointments on his way out of office – including his current Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, his former campaign manager and Senior Counselor, Kellyanne Conway, and campaign surrogate, lobbyist Matt Schlapp.

Also on the list, a billionaire hotelier reportedly linked to "a possible pay-for-play scheme" with the RNC.

The nominations, announced Tuesday, appear to mirror reports that say the president is preparing a flood of pardons, even to people who have never asked for them, merely because he can.

Trump nominated **Kellyanne Conway** to the Board of Visitors to the United States Air Force Academy. The Board acts as a board of governors, and "inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy which the Board decides to consider."

Conway, according to the Office of Special Counsel, has broken federal law so frequently she was recommended for "removal" from her White House position by the federal watchdog agency. Trump ignored the recommendation.

Trump nominated Secretary **Elaine Chao** to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The appointment carries a six-year term.

Also nominated to the Kennedy Center is Lynn Friess, wife of major Republican donor **Foster Friess**.

Lobbyist **Matt Schlapp**, the head of the American Conservative Union, which operates the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), was nominated by Trump to be a Member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. According to Bloomberg the LoC Trust Fund Board "operates as a federal board governing funds donated to the Library of Congress. The Board deposits the incoming money with the Secretary of the Treasury and the librarian of the Library of Congress may distribute the money. LoC Trust Fund Board holds the power to invest, reinvest, and retain investments as well."

Schlapp's wife, Mercedes Schlapp, was a White House communications official who left to work for the Trump campaign. Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Also on today's list, billionaire hotelier, real estate developer, GOP donor, and failed ambassador nominee Douglas "Papa Doug" Manchester. Manchester was nominated to the Kennedy Center Board as well. A scathing January 2020 article detailed his lavish lifestyle and divorces, including from a Russian immigrant. That article suggested she had "a profile on a website for seekers of Russian brides."

Last year CBS News "uncovered a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas. Emails obtained by CBS News show the nominee, San Diego billionaire Doug Manchester, was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance."

There are 26 nominations in total, just today.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/1154566/

democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are investigating the events surrounding the nomination of Aldona Wos, the wife of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada following a report on high-dollar donations made by Salon.

Salon first reported the conspicuous alignment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from DeJoy with President Donald Trump’s February announcement of Wos as his pick to fill the cush Ottawa gig.

DeJoy, a top Trump donor and the former head fundraiser for the Republican National Convention, made a series of major donations to the Trump campaign and Senate Republicans leading up to his wife’s nomination, federal election records show.

In the weeks surrounding the nomination, DeJoy gave Trump Victory $360,600. He also gave a $35,000 maximum donation to the Senate GOP’s election committee the day after Trump announced his intention to nominate Wos.

The Senate oversees the confirmation of all U.S. ambassadors. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., the current chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), sits on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, which is currently holding confirmation proceedings for Wos.

Previous DeJoy donations also fall within the timeline of his wife’s nomination.

DeJoy and Wos each donated $35,000 to Trump Victory on Jan. 22, 2019, according to FEC records. Following Trump’s Feb. 22 announcement that the Canadian ambassadorship would be opening up, DeJoy poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars, records show.

He gave a total of $320,000 to Trump Victory in the three months between April 3 and June 17, 2019. During that time frame, DeJoy also made his largest single donation to the fund to date: $120,000. A few days later, Trump was said to be considering Wos for the position.

Trump opted to fill the position with an acting ambassador. When the post opened again in January, DeJoy donated another $150,000 to Trump Victory in two separate chunks on Jan. 15 — at the time his largest single-day contribution.

Then, the White House announced that Trump would nominate Wos as the next U.S. ambassador to Canada on Feb. 11. The next day, DeJoy made his maximum donation of $35,000 to the NRSC, FEC flings show.

Finally, on Feb. 19, 2020, the week after the White House announcement and the NSRC donation, DeJoy made his biggest single donation to Trump Victory to date: $210,600. Six days later, Trump officially nominated Wos.

The news of fresh scrutiny from Senate Democrats comes as the Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee announced an investigation into DeJoy following a bombshell report in the Washington Post. DeJoy allegedly repeatedly urged the staff of his supply chain company to donate to Republican candidates and later reimbursed them, according to former employees. The arrangement, colloquially known as a “straw donor” scheme, is one of the few campaign finance crimes that can carry jail time.

“Reimbursing another person for political contributions is a serious campaign finance violation,” Brendan Fischer, the director of the Federal Reform Program at the Campaign Legal Center, told Salon. “Straw donations violate campaign finance law’s transparency requirements, usually constitute excessive or prohibited contributions and are made with some level of intent. A donor doesn’t accidentally ask another person to make a political contribution and then reimburse them — they do so intentionally, typically because the original donor has already maxed-out to the candidate. Plenty of people have gone to jail for straw donor schemes.”

Right-wing agitator and media personality Dinesh D’Souza was fined $30,000 and sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center after he pleaded guilty to running a straw donor scheme through his secretary. Trump pardoned D’Souza in 2018.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/lawmakers-demand-removal-of-postmaster-general-dejoy-over-nefarious-efforts-to-destroy-the-postal-service

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/friday-night-massacre-at-us-postal-service-as-postmaster-general-a-major-trump-donor-ousts-top-officials

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trumps-s-on-the-postal-service-are-hurting-democracy-and-thats-the-point/

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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/07/top-trump-donor-who-gave-more-than-2-million-to-the-gop-picked-to-run-postal-service/

A major donor to President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee was selected as the new head of the US Postal Service on Wednesday.

Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman who is heading up fundraising for the 2020 Republican National Convention, was approved by the USPS Board of Governors to become "the first postmaster general in two decades who did not rise through the agency's ranks," The Washington Post reported.

DeJoy has given more than $2 million to the Trump campaign and Republican causes since 2016, according to the report, including $1 million to the Republican National Committee and $650,000 to the Trump Victory Fund.

DeJoy's wife, Aldona Wos, has also risen through the ranks of Trumpworld. Trump nominated Wos to be ambassador to Canada earlier this year, replacing Kelly Craft, another top donor who has since been promoted to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Wos is also the vice chair of the president's Commission on White House Fellowships. She previously served as ambassador to Estonia under former President George W. Bush.

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Several U.S. ambassadors actively shed their stock holdings as President Donald Trump tried to downplay the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages,” according to CNBC.

Ambassadors to Uruguay, France, Morocco and Italy sold shares in transactions that could have made them millions of dollars, according to financial disclosure filings reviewed by CNBC. Much of their sales were in January and continued throughout February, the records show. Their transactions line up with a timeline of federal and congressional announcements as the virus started sweeping across the globe earlier this year.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/gop-demanded-500k-donation-from-trump-bahamas-ambassador-during-his-senate-confirmation-hearings/

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GOP demanded $500K donation from Trump Bahamas ambassador during his Senate confirmation hearings

Written by Brad Reed / Raw Story November 18, 2019

Newly uncovered emails reveal that the Republican National Committee demanded that President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas donate $500,000 ahead of his Senate confirmation hearings.

CBS News reports that RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel asked billionaire Doug Manchester for more cash at a time when his confirmation as Bahamas ambassador had seemingly stalled.

“Would you consider putting together $500,000 worth of contributions from your family to ensure we hit our ambitious fundraising goal?” she asked him in an email.

Manchester replied and told McDaniel that he’s “not supposed to” be donating to the RNC at the same time he’s up for an ambassadorship. All the same, he said his wife would send along a check for $100,000.

He then asked McDaniel to put pressure on the Senate GOP to move his confirmation hearing along.

CBS News investigative reporter Jim Axelrod confronted Manchester about the emails and told him that “you know what this looks like.”

Manchester responded defensively and insisted that his wife’s contribution had nothing to do with getting confirmed by the Senate.

“Well — it looks like it to you,” he said. “But it’s not the facts. My wife gave out of separate funds and she in fact loves Donald Trump.”

The RNC said it was inappropriate for Manchester to link the donation to his ambassadorship nomination and added that it has since returned the money donated by the family this year.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/selling-americas-ambassadorships/?

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https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/27/did_trump_team_offer_ambassadorships_in

According to a report published in the entertainment publication TheWrap, Donald Trump’s team not only wanted major talent for the inauguration, they attempted to up the ante by trying to bring in talent bookers with access to A-listers. The incentive? Offers of government posts and ambassadorships. According to TheWrap, at least two talent bookers were offered posts. We speak to the journalist who broke the story, Itay Hod, senior reporter for TheWrap.

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...A second insider said he was offered a government post, including an ambassadorship, if he could wrangle a top artist. The insider, a talent manager, said he knew at least two other people who have been offered similar deals, but who did not wish to speak to the news media.

Asked how the subject of a possible ambassadorship came up, the second recruiter said he was offered “access to the administration.”

“They said they were in the process of  ‘figuring out posts, ambassadorships and commissions’ if that was of any interest,” the manager said.

The manager said he declined the offer and did not ask which ambassadorships were on the table.

Both men who spoke to TheWrap about the ambassadorships asked not to be identified, and both, like most in left-leaning Hollywood, supported Hillary Clinton in the election.

TheWrap spoke previously to industry insiders who said the inauguration team has its sights set on top-tier talents like Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and Aretha Franklin, and were willing to pay steep fees for the performers. Perry sang at the Democratic National Convention in July, and Franklin sang at President Obama’s first inauguration.

Also Read:Mark Burnett Inauguration Pitch to Donald Trump Includes Chopper Ride From NYC

Rewarding big campaign donors, fundraisers and other loyalists with ambassadorships is nothing new. According to the American Foreign Service Association, more than 40 percent of Obama’s ambassador nominees in his second term went to political rather than career diplomats. In recent past administrations the figure was about 30 percent, according to NPR.

But handing out government posts for talent bookers is outside the norm.

One veteran inaugural organizer told TheWrap it is unusual to compensate talent and recruiters for an inauguration performance, which is usually considered a high-profile, high-prestige, patriotic gig. And the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan group that advocates for open government and accountability, called the idea “alarming.”

“It’s bad policy to offer ambassadorships to unqualified, inexperienced individuals, no matter who is president,” spokeswoman Jenn Topper said. “The public deserves an opportunity to vet the people who will be at the forefront of our diplomatic relations, and this alleged backroom dealing is alarming.”

Ambassadors are nominated by the president, but must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate....

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• A. Paul Anderson to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner August 22, 2003. [1]
• Michael J. Bartlett to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board January 22, 2002. [2]
• Warren Bell to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in December 2006. [3]
• Andrew G. Biggs was named to be Deputy Director of the Social Security Administration April 4, 2007.
• John R. Bolton as U.N. Ambassador in August 2005, after having been blocked by the Senate. Bolton was Bush's 106th recess appointment. (FSRN 1 Aug '05)
• William B. Cowen to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board January 22, 2002. [4]
• Susan E. Dudley to be Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on April 4, 2007.
• Eric S. Edelman as undersecretary of defense for policy to replace Douglas Feith in the No. 3 position in the Pentagon. "Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee led by Carl Levin of Michigan, their ranking member, stalled Edelman's nomination to force the release of documents related to a specialized intelligence unit Feith set up before the conflict." [5]
• Gordon R. England to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 4, 2006. [6]
• Alice S. Fisher to head the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, after the "nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility." [7]
• David W. Fleming to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Public) August 22, 2003. [8]
• Peter Flory as an Assistant Secretary of Defense, after having been blocked by the Senate. [[9]](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_recess_appointment;_ylt=Ak8R8ReyEPq6ji2kebwvW6es0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-)
• Sam Fox was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenifotentiary of the United States of America to Belgium on April 4, 2007.
• Cynthia A. Glassman to be a Member of the Commission of the Securities and Exchange:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}::{Commission January 22, 2002.[10]
• C. Boyden Gray to be the Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the Rank and Status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 17, 2006.
• Jay Phillip Greene to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Academic) August 22, 2003. [11]
• Floyd Hall to be a Member of the AMTRAK Reform Board, January 4, 2006. This is the second time that Hall was appointed in a recess appointment. [12]
• Tracy A. Henke to be Executive Director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security. [13]
• Isacc C. Hunt, Jr. [14] to be a Member of the Commission of the Securities and Exchange Commission January 22, 2002.[15]
• JoAnn Johnson to be a Member of the Board of the National Credit Union Administration January 22, 2002. [16]
• Peter N. Kirsanow to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, January 4, 2006. [17]
• Charlotte A. Lane to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission August 22, 2003. She was nominated on June 7, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [18]
• Robert D. Lenhard to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [19]
• Deborah Matz to be a Member of the Board of the National Credit Union Administration January 22, 2002.
• Ronald E. Meisburg to be General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, January 4, 2006. [20]
• Steven Kent **Mullins** to be United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, vice James E. McMahon, January 9, 2006.[21]
• Julie L. Myers to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), January 4, 2006. [22]
• Daniel Pearson to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission August 22, 2003. He was nominated on November 14, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [23]
• John Richard Petrocik to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Academic) August 22, 2003. [24]
• Charles W. Pickering, Sr. to Federal Appeals Court January 17, 2004, from which he had been blocked twice by the Senate.[25][26]
• **Daniel Pipes** to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United StatesInstitute of PeaceAugust 22, 2003. [27]
• Benjamin A. Powell to be General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 4, 2006. [28]
• Anthony J. Principi as chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, as well as eight members of the Commission, April 1, 2005.
• William H. Pryor, Jr. to 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals February 20, 2004, "in the face of a Democratic filibuster of the nomination." [29][30]
• Otto Juan Reich to Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs January 11, 2002. [31]
• Ellen R. Sauerbrey to be Assistant Secretary of State (Population, Refugees, and Migration), January 4, 2006. [32]
• Eugene Scaliato Solicitor of Labor in the U.S. Department of Labor January 11, 2002.
• Peter C. Schaumber to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring on August 27, 2010. [33]
• Dorrance Smith to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, January 4, 2006. [34]
• Enrique J. Sosa to be a Member of the AMTRAK Reform Board, January 4, 2006. This is the second time that Sosa was appointed in a recess appointment. [35]
• Michael E. Toner to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission March 29, 2002, for the remainder of a term expiring April 30, 2007; first announced November 21, 2001, and nomination sent to Senate March 4, 2002. [36]
• Juanita Alicia Vasquez-Gardner to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. She was nominated on July 24, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [37]
• Hans von Spakovsky to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [38]
• Dennis P. Walsh to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, January 17, 2006.
• Steven T. Walther to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [39]
• John Paul Woodley, Jr. to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) August 22, 2003. [40]

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Ambassadorial Appointments - George W. Bush

Total Appointments: 453

Career Appointments: 317/69.98%

Political Appointments: 136/30.02%

Afghanistan Robert Patrick John Finn Career 2002-2003

Zalmay Khalilzad Political 2003-2005

Ronald Neumann Career 2005-2007

William B. Wood Career 2007-2009

African Union Cindy Courville Political 2006-2009 ok

Albania James Franklin Jeffrey Career 2002-2004

Marcie B. Ries Career 2004-2007

John Withers Career 2007-2010

Algeria Richard W. Erdman Career 2003-2006

Robert S. Ford Career 2006-2008

David Pearce Career 2008-2011

Angola Christopher William Dell Career 2001-2004

Cynthia Efird Career 2004-2007

Dan Mozena Career 2007-2010

Argentina Lino Gutierrez Career 2003-2006

Earl Anthony Wayne Career 2006-2009

Armenia John M. Ordway Career 2001-2004

John M. Evans Career 2004-2006

Marie Yovanovitch Career 2008-2011

APEC Lauren Moriarty Career 2004-2005

Michael Michalak Career 2005-2007

Patricia Haslach Career 2007-2009

ASEAN Scot Marciel Career 2007-2010

Australia J. Thomas Schieffer Political 2001-2005

Robert D. McCallum Political 2005-2009 skull and bones  http://www.nndb.com/people/891/000120531/

Austria Lyons Brown, Jr. Political 2001-2005 http://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/b/6832.htm

Susan R. McCaw Political 2005-2007 $$ http://www.muckety.com/Susan-R-McCaw/9965.muckety

David F. Girard-diCarlo Political 2008-2009 blank rome

Azerbaijan Reno Harnish Career 2003-2006

Anne Derse Career 2006-2009

Bahamas J. Richard Blankenship Political 2001-2003 $ http://www.nndb.com/people/782/000122416/

John D. Rood Political 2004-2007 $ http://www.nndb.com/people/413/000119056/  http://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/r/38692.htm

Ned L. Siegel Political 2007-2009  http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=119070

Bahrain Ronald E. Neumann Career 2001-2004

William T. Monroe Career 2004-2007

Joseph Adam Ereli Career 2007-2011

Bangladesh Harry K. Thomas, Jr. Career 2003-2005

Patricia A. Butenis Career 2006-2007

James Moriarty Career 2007-2011

Barbados Earl Norfleet Phillips Political 2002-2003 wachovia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Norfleet_Phillips

Mary Kramer Political 2003-2006

Mary Ourisman Political 2006-2009 http://www.nndb.com/people/719/000122353/

Belarus George A. Krol Career 2003-2006

Karen B. Stewart Career 2006-2008

Belgium Stephen Brauer Political 2001-2003 swift boat akin http://www.nndb.com/people/054/000120691/

Tom Korologos Political 2003-2007 dla piper bork

Sam Fox Political 2007-2009 $

Belize Russell F. Freeman Political 2001-2005 ND scotus

Robert Johann Dieter Political 2005-2009 coors http://www.nndb.com/people/783/000122417/

Benin Wayne E. Neill Career 2003-2006

Gayleatha B. Brown Career 2006-2009

Bolivia David Greenlee Career 2002-2006

Philip S. Goldberg Career 2006-2008

Bosnia & Herzegovina Clifford G. Bond Career 2001-2004

Douglas L. McElhaney Career 2004-2007

Charles English Career 2007-2010

Botswana Joseph Huggins Career 2002-2005

Katherine Hubay Canavan Career 2005-2008

Stephen Nolan Career 2008-2011

Brazil Donna Hrinak Career 2002-2004

John J. Danilovich Political 2004-2005

Clifford Sobel Political 2005-2009 http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/bushs-man-in-brazil-packs-up/#

Brunei Darussalam Gene B. Christy Career 2002-2005

Emil Skodon Career 2005-2008

William Todd Political 2008-2010

Bulgaria James W. Pardew Career 2002-2005

John R. Beyrle Career 2005-2008

Nancy McEldowney Career 2008-2009

Burkina Faso J. Anthony Holmes Career 2002-2005

Jeanine Jackson Career 2006-2009

Burma No diplomatic relations from 2001-2009

Burundi James H. Yellin Career 2002-2005

Patricia Moller Career 2006-2009

Cambodia Charles Aaron Ray Career 2002-2005

Joseph A. Mussomeli Career 2005-2008

Carol Rodley Career 2008-2012

Cameroon George McDade Staples Career 2001-2004

R. Niels Marquardt Career 2004-2007

Janet Garvey Career 2007-2010

Canada Argeo Paul Cellucci Political 2001-2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cellucci

David Horton Wilkins Political 2005-2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkins

Cape Verde Donald C. Johnson Career 2002-2005

Roger D. Pierce Career 2005-2008

Marianne Myles Career 2008-2011

Central African Republic Mattie R. Sharpless Career 2001-2002

Frederick Cook Career 2007-2010

Chad Marc M. Wall Career 2004-2007

Louis Nigro Career 2007-2010

Chile William R. Brownfield Career 2002-2004

Craig A. Kelly Career 2004-2007

Paul Simons Career 2007-2010

China Clark T. Randt, Jr. Political 2001-2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_T._Randt,_Jr.

Colombia William B. Wood Career 2003-2007

William R. Brownfield Career 2007-2010

Congo (DR) Aubrey Hooks Career 2001-2004

Roger A. Meece Career 2004-2007

William Garvelink Career 2007-2010

Congo (Republic of) Robin R. Sanders Career 2002-2005

Robert Weisberg Career 2006-2008

Alan Eastham Career 2008-2010

Costa Rica John J. Danilovich Political 2001-2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-john-j-danilovich

Roger A. Meece Political 2005-2008

William Garvelink Political 2008-2009

Cote d'Ivoire Arlene Render Career 2001-2004

Aubrey Hooks Career 2004-2007

Wanda Nesbitt Career 2007-2010

Croatia Ralph Frank Career 2003-2006

Robert A. Bradtke Career 2006-2009

Cyprus Michael Klosson Career 2002-2005

Ronald Schlicher Career 2005-2008

Frank Urbancic, Jr. Career 2008-2012

Czech Republic Craig Roberts Stapleton Political 2001-2003

William J. Cabaniss Political 2003-2006

Richard W. Graber Political 2006-2009

Denmark Stuart A. Bernstein Political 2001-2005

James Cain Political 2005-2009

Director General of the Foreign Service Ruth A. Davis Career 2001-2003

W. Robert Pearson Career 2003-2006

George McDade Staples Career 2006-2007

Harry K. Thomas, Jr. Career 2007-2009

Djibouti Marguerita Dianne Ragsdale Career 2003-2006

W. Stuart Symington IV Career 2006-2008

James Swan Career 2008-2011

Dominican Republic Hans H. Hertell Political 2001-2007

P. Robert Fannin Political 2007-2009

Ecuador Kristie Kenney Career 2002-2005

William J. Cabaniss Career 2005-2008

Richard W. Graber Career 2008-2011

Egypt C. David Welch Career 2001-2005

Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. Career 2005-2008

Margaret Scobey Career 2008-2011

El Salvador H. Douglas Barclay Political 2003-2007

Charles L. Glazer Political 2007-2009

Equatorial Guinea George McDade Staples Career 2001-2004

R. Niels Marquardt Career 2004-2006

Donald J. Johnson Career 2006-2009

Eritrea Donald J. McConnell Political 2001-2004

Scott H. DeLisi Career 2004-2007

Ronald McMullen Career 2007-2012

Estonia Joseph M. DeThomas Career 2001-2004

Aldona Wos Political 2004-2006

Stanley Davis Phillips Political 2006-2009

Ethiopia Aurelia Brazeal Career 2002-2005

Donald Yamamoto Career 2006-2009

European Union Rockwell A. Schnabel Political 2001-2005

C. Boyden Gray Political 2006-2007

Kristin Silverberg Political 2008-2009

Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, & Tuvalu David L. Lyon Career 2002-2005

Larry Miles Dinger Career 2005-2008

C. Steven McGann Career 2008-2011

Finland Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Political 2001-2003

Earle I. Mack Political 2004-2005

Marilyn Ware Political 2005-2009

France and Monaco Howard Leach Political 2001-2005

Craig Roberts Stapleton Political 2005-2009

Gabon and São Tomé & Principe Kenneth Price Moorfield Career 2002-2004

R. Barrie Walkley Career 2004-2007

Eunice Reddick Career 2007-2010

Gambia Jackson McDonald Career 2001-2004

Joseph D. Stafford III Career 2004-2007

Barry Wells Career 2007-2010

Georgia Richard Monroe Miles Career 2002-2005

John F. Tefft Career 2005-2009

Germany Daniel R. Coats Political 2001-2005

William Robert Timken, Jr. Political 2005-2009

Ghana Nancy Powell Career 2001-2002

Mary Carlin Yates Career 2002-2005

Pamela Bridgewater Career 2005-2008

Donald Teitelbaum Career 2008-2012

Greece Thomas J. Miller Career 2001-2004

Charles P. Ries Career 2004-2007

Daniel Speckhard Political 2007-2010

Guatemala John Randle Hamilton Career 2002-2005

James M. Derham Career 2005-2008

Stephen McFarland Career 2008-2011

Guinea R. Barrie Walkley Career 2001-2004

Jackson McDonald Career 2004-2007

Philip Carter III Career 2007-2009

Guyana Roland W. Bullen Career 2003-2006

David M. Robinson Career 2006-2008

John Melvin Jones Career 2008

Haiti James B. Foley Career 2003-2005

Janet Sanderson Career 2006-2009

Holy See James Nicholson Political 2001-2005

Francis Rooney Political 2005-2008

Mary Ann Glendon Political 2008-2009

Honduras Larry Leon Palmer Career 2002-2005

Charles A. Ford Career 2005-2008

Hugo Llorens Career 2008-2011

Hungary Nancy Goodman Brinker Political 2001-2003

George H. Walker Political 2003-2006

April H. Foley Political 2006-2009

Iceland James Gadsden Career 2002-2005

Carol van Voorst Career 2006-2009

India Robert D. Blackwill Political 2001-2003

David Campbell Mulford Political 2003-2009

Indonesia Ralph Leo Boyce Career 2001-2004

B. Lynn Pascoe Career 2004-2007

Cameron Hume Career 2007-2010

Iraq John Negroponte Career 2004-2005

Zalmay Khalilzad Political 2005-2007

Ryan Crocker Career 2007-2009

Ireland Richard J. Egan Political 2001-2002

James Casey Kenny Political 2003-2006

Thomas C. Foley Political 2006-2009  citi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Foley

Israel Daniel C. Kurtzer Career 2001-2005

Richard Henry Jones Career 2005-2008

James Cunningham Career 2008-2011

Italy & San Marino Melvin Sembler Political 2001-2005

Ronald Spogli Political 2005-2009

Jamaica Sue McCourt Cobb Political 2001-2005

Brenda LaGrange Johnson Political 2005-2009

Japan Howard Baker Political 2001-2005

John Thomas Schieffer Political 2005-2009

Jordan Edward Gnehm Career 2001-2004

David Hale Career 2005-2008

Robert S. Beecroft Career 2008-2011

Kazakhstan Larry C. Napper Career 2001-2004

John M. Ordway Career 2004-2008

Richard Hoagland Career 2008-2011

Kenya (+ Somalia) William M. Bellamy Career 2003-2006

Michael Ranneberger Career 2006-2011

Kosovo Tina Kaidanow Career 2008-2009

Kuwait Richard Henry Jones Career 2001-2004

Richard LeBaron Career 2004-2007

Deborah Jones Career 2007-2011

Kyrgyz Republic Stephen M. Young Career 2003-2005

Marie Yovanovitch Career 2005-2008

Tatiana Gfoeller Career 2008-2010

Laos Douglas A. Hartwick Career 2001-2004

Patricia Haslach Career 2004-2007

Ravic Huso Career 2007-2010

Latvia Brian E. Carlson Career 2001-2004

Catherine Todd Bailey Political 2004-2007

Charles W. Larson, Jr. Political 2007-2009

Lebanon Vincent M. Battle Career 2001-2004

Jeffrey D. Feltman Career 2004-2008

Michele Sison Career 2008-2010

Lesotho Robert G. Loftis Career 2001-2004

June Carter Perry Career 2004-2007

Robert Nolan Career 2007-2010

Liberia John W. Blaney Career 2002-2005

John W. Blaney Career 2005-2008

Linda Thomas-Greenfield Career 2008-2012

Libya Gene Cretz Career 2007-2012

Lithuania Stephen D. Mull Career 2003-2006

John A. Cloud, Jr. Career 2006-2009

Luxembourg Peter Terpeluk, Jr. Political 2002-2005

Ann L. Wagner Political 2005-2009

Macedonia Lawrence E. Butler Career 2002-2005

Gillian A. Milovanovic Career 2005-2008

Philip T. Reeker Career 2008-2011

Madagascar & Comoros Wanda Nesbitt Career 2001-2004

James D. McGee Career 2004-2007

R. Niels Marquardt Career 2007-2010

Malawi Steven A. Browning Career 2003-2004

Alan Eastham Career 2005-2008

Peter Bodde Career 2008-2011

Malaysia Marie T. Huhtala Career 2001-2004

Christopher L. LaFleur Career 2004-2007

James Keith Career 2007-2010

Mali Vicki Huddleston Career 2002-2005

Terence P. McCulley Career 2005-2008

Gillian Milovanovic Career 2008-2011

Malta Anthony H. Gioia Political 2001-2004

Molly H. Bordonaro Political 2005-2009

Marshall Islands Greta N. Morris Career 2003-2006

Clyde Bishop Career 2006-2009

Mauritania Joseph LaBaron Career 2003-2006

Mark Boulware Career 2007-2010

Mauritius & Seychelles John Price Political 2002-2005

Cesar B. Cabrera Political 2006-2009

Mexico Antonio O. Garza, Jr. Political 2002-2009

Micronesia Larry M. Dinger Career 2001-2004

Suzanne Hale Career 2004-2007

Miriam Hughes Career 2007-2009

Moldova Pamela H. Smith Career 2001-2003

Heather M. Hodges Career 2003-2006

Michael D. Kirby Career 2006-2008

Asif Chaudhry Career 2008-2011

Mongolia Pamela Slutz Career 2003-2006

Mark Minton Career 2006-2009

Montenegro Roderick Moore Career 2007-2010

Morocco Margaret Tutwiler Political 2001-2003

Thomas Riley Political 2003-2009

Mozambique Helen Meagher La Lime Career 2003-2006

Namibia Kevin J. McGuire Career 2001-2004

Joyce Barr Career 2004-2007

Gail Mathieu Career 2007-2010

NATO R. Nicholas Burns Career 2001-2005

Victoria Nuland Political 2005-2008

Kurt Volker Career 2008-2009

Nepal Michael E. Malinowski Career 2001-2004

James Moriarty Career 2004-2007

Nancy Powell Career 2007-2009

Netherlands Clifford Sobel Political 2001-2005

Ronald Arnall Political 2006-2008

James Culbertson Political 2008-2009

New Zealand & Samoa Charles J. Swindells Political 2001-2005

William McCormick Political 2005-2008

Nicaragua Barbara C. Moore Career 2002-2005

Paul A. Trivelli Career 2005-2008

Robert Callahan Career 2008-2011

Niger Gail Mathieu Career 2002-2005

Bernadette Allen Career 2006-2010

Nigeria John Campbell Career 2004-2007

Robin R. Sanders Career 2007-2010

Norway John D. Ong Political 2002-2005

Benson K. Whitney Political 2005-2009

OAS Roger F. Noriega Political 2001-2003

John F. Maisto Career 2003-2006

Hector E. Morales Political 2007-2009

OECD Jeanne L. Phillips Political 2001-2003

Constance Morella Political 2003-2005

Christopher Egan Political 2007-2009

Oman Richard L. Baltimore Career 2002-2006

Gary A. Grappo Career 2006-2009

OSCE Stephan M. Minikes Political 2001-2005

Julie Finley Political 2005-2009

Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin Career 2001

Nancy Powell Career 2002-2004

Ryan Crocker Career 2004-2007

Anne W. Patterson Career 2007-2010

Panama Linda Ellen Watt Career 2002-2005

William Alan Eaton Career 2005-2008

Barbara Stephenson Career 2008-2010

Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, & Vanuatu Robert W. Fitts Career 2003-2006

Leslie Rowe Career 2006-2009

Paraguay John F. Keane Career 2002-2005

James Caldwell Cason Career 2005-2008

Liliana Ayalde Career 2008-2011

Peru John R. Dawson Career 2002-2003

James C. Struble Career 2003-2007

P. Michael McKinley Career 2007-2010

Philippines & Palau Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. Career 2002-2005

Kristie Kenney Career 2006-2009

Poland Victor Ashe Political 2004-2009

Portugal John N. Palmer Political 2001-2004

Alfred Hoffman, Jr. Political 2005-2007

Thomas F. Stephenson Political 2007-2009

Qatar Maureen Quinn Career 2001-2004

Charles G. Untermeyer Political 2004-2007

Joseph LeBaron Career 2007-2011

Romania Michael E. Guest Career 2001-2004

Jack Dyer Crouch II Political 2004-2005

Nicholas F. Taubman Political 2005-2008

Russia Alexander Vershbow Career 2001-2005

William J. Burns Career 2005-2008

Rwanda Margaret K. McMillion Career 2001-2004

Michael R. Arietti Career 2005-2008

W. Stuart Symington IV Career 2008-2011

Saudi Arabia Robert W. Jordan Political 2001-2003

James C. Oberwetter Political 2003-2007

Ford M. Fraker Political 2007-2009

Senegal & Guinea Bissau Richard Allan Roth Career 2002-2005

Janice Jacobs Career 2006-2007

Marcia Bernicat Career 2007-2011

Serbia William D. Montgomery Career 2001-2004

Michael C. Polt Career 2004-2007

Cameron Munter Career 2007-2009

Sierra Leone Peter Chaveas Career 2001-2004

Thomas Neil Hull III Career 2004-2007

June Carter Perry Career 2007-2010

Singapore Franklin L. Lavin Political 2001-2005

Patricia L. Herbold Political 2005-2009

Slovakia Ronald Weiser Political 2001-2004

Rodolphe M. Vallee Political 2005-2007

Vincent Obsitnik Political 2007-2009

Slovenia Johnny Young Career 2001-2004

Thomas B. Robertson Career 2004-2007

Yousif Boutros Ghafari Political 2008-2009

South Africa Cameron Hume Career 2001-2004

Jendayi E. Frazer Political 2004-2005

Eric M. Bost Political 2006-2009

South Korea Thomas C. Hubbard Career 2001-2004

Christopher Hill Career 2004-2005

Alexander Vershbow Career 2005-2008

Kathleen Stephens Career 2008-2011

Spain & Andorra George L. Argyros, Sr. Political 2001-2004

Eduardo Aguirre Political 2005-2009

Sri Lanka & Maldives Jeffrey Lunstead Career 2003-2006

Robert O. Blake, Jr. Career 2006-2009

Sudan No ambassadors from 2001-2009

Suriname Marsha E. Barnes Career 2003-2006

Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes Career 2006-2009

Swaziland James D. McGee Career 2002-2004

Lewis W. Lucke Career 2004-2005

Maurice S. Parker Career 2007-2009

Sweden Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Political 2001-2004

Miles T. Bivins Political 2004-2006

Michael Wood Political 2006-2009

Switzerland & Liechtenstein Mercer Reynolds Political 2001-2003

Pamela P. Willeford Political 2003-2006

Peter R. Coneway Political 2006-2008

Syria Theodore Kattouf Career 2001-2003

Margaret Scobey Career 2003-2005

Tajikistan Franklin Pierce Huddle, Jr. Career 2001-2003

Richard Hoagland Career 2003-2006

Tracy Jacobson Career 2006-2009

Tanzania Robert V. Royall Political 2001-2003

Michael Retzer Political 2005-2007

Mark Green Political 2007-2009

Thailand Darryl N. Johnson Career 2001-2004

Ralph Leo Boyce Career 2004-2007

Eric G. John Career 2007-2010

Timor-Leste Grover Joseph Rees III Political 2002-2006

Hans Klemm Career 2007-2010

Togo Gregory W. Engle Career 2003-2005

David B. Dunn Career 2005-2008

Patricia McMahon Hawkins Career 2008-2011

Trinidad & Tobago Roy L. Austin Political 2001-2009

Tunisia William J. Hudson Career 2003-2006

Robert F. Godec Career 2006-2009

Turkey Eric S. Edelman Career 2003-2005

Ross Wilson Career 2005-2008

James Franklin Jeffrey Career 2008-2010

Turkmenistan Laura Kennedy Career 2001-2003

Tracy Jacobson Career 2003-2007

Uganda Jimmy Kolker Career 2002-2005

Steven A. Browning Career 2005-2009

Ukraine John E. Herbst Career 2003-2006

William B. Taylor, Jr. Career 2006-2009

United Arab Emirates Marcelle Wahba Career 2001-2004

Michele Sison Career 2004-2008

Richard Olson Career 2008-2011

United Kingdom William S. Farish Political 2001-2004

Robert H. Tuttle Political 2005-2009

United Nations John Negroponte Career 2001-2004

John C. Danforth Political 2004-2005

John R. Bolton Political 2005-2006

Zalmay Khalilzad Political 2007-2009

UN/Geneva Kevin E. Moley Political 2001-2006

Warren W. Tichenor Political 2006-2009

UN/Vienna Kenneth C. Brill Career 2001-2004

Gregory L. Schulte Political 2005-2009

UNESCO Louise Oliver Political 2004-2009

Uruguay Martin J. Silverstein Political 2001-2005

Frank Baxter Political 2006-2009

Uzbekistan Jon Robert Purnell Career 2003-2007

Richard B. Norland Career 2007-2010

Venezuela Charles S. Shapiro Career 2002-2004

William R. Brownfield Career 2004-2007

Patrick Duddy Career 2007-2010

Vietnam Raymond Burghardt Career 2001-2004

Michael W. Marine Career 2004-2007

Michael Michalak Career 2007-2010

Yemen Edmund James Hull Career 2001-2004

Thomas Charles Krajeski Career 2004-2007

Stephen A. Seche Career 2007-2010

Zambia Martin George Brennan Career 2002-2005

Carmen M. Martinez Career 2005-2008

Donald Booth Career 2008-2010

Zimbabwe Joseph Gerard Sullivan Career 2001-2004

Christopher William Dell Career 2004-2007

James D. McGee Career 2007-2009

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nndb

Council of American Ambassadors

ORGANIZATION

Nonprofit, non-partisan organization. Founded in 1983.

Official Website:

http://www.americanambassadors.org/

Founding Date:

1983

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