Senate confirms Palm Springs’ Richard Grenell as Ambassador to Germany
The Senate confirmed Richard Grenell as the U.S. ambassador to Germany on Thursday, filling the high-profile diplomatic position just in time for a White House visit this week by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In September, KESQ reported on the initial rumors around Grenell’s potential appointment.
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The vote was 56-42 for the former spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations. A longtime Fox News Channel commentator, Grenell has been controversial over his outspoken views on Twitter. The drawn-out debate became one example of Trump’s difficulties to get key positions confirmed.
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Grenell served at the U.N. during the George W. Bush administration under four ambassadors – including John Bolton, now Trump’s national security adviser.
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/989572919914360832″,”author_name”:”Donald Trump Jr.”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;Congrats to &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;@RichardGrenell&#lt;/a&#gt; on his confirmation as Ambassador to Germany. I cant believe Dems made it take this long, but better late than never. Good luck. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/GrenellConfirmed?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#GrenellConfirmed&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/989572919914360832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;April 26, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}
He was the first openly gay ambassador nominated by Trump.
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