Trump names conventional foreign policy hands to top State roles

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Source: Politico

12/08/2024 08:38 PM EST


President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday unveiled a trio of picks for top State Department roles, elevating conventional national security hands to key policy roles in Foggy Bottom.

In a Truth Social post, Trump announced that Christopher Landau, who served as his ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021, is his pick for deputy secretary of State. Trump praised Landau, a lawyer turned diplomat who clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, as “one of our Country’s great lawyers” and said he will “work closely with our great Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to promote our Nation’s security and prosperity through an America First Foreign Policy.”

He also announced that Michael Needham will be counselor to the State Department, directly advising Rubio. Needham currently holds top leadership posts at the conservative policy groups American Compass and American 2100 and previously led the Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm.

Trump also named Michael Anton, who POLITICO reported was under consideration to be deputy national security adviser, as director of policy planning for the department.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/08/trump-conventional-foreign-policy-choices-state-roles-00193224

[duncang]

1. When I hear he picked a conventional foreign policy person.

That clerked for Clarence Thomas and Scalia I don’t think I’d consider him conventional.

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2. None of those pricks should be considered conventional at all. Once again the press is short-changing America by

Applying terms of convenience rather than giving genuine context. . The Heritage Foundation engineered the 2025 program and has no shame about that. Anyone whose CV includes them as a reference is as dangerous to US Foreign Policy as Elon Musk is to sanity.