Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed
by Robert Taitin Washington DC from US news | The Guardian on (#6T30R)
Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory
They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.
For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now is named to be the next US ambassador to the small island nation.
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