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By Gary Raynaldo    DIPLOMATIC TIMES

Heather Nauert, the former Fox News anchor turned State Department spokesperson, has withdrawn her name from consideration as the US Ambassador to the United Nations.  “Today Heather Nauert withdrew herself from consideration for the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The President will make an announcement with respect to a nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations soon”, the Department of State said Saturday in a statement.  President Trump announced last November he had selected Nauert to be America’s new UN Ambassador.

“I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. However, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration. Serving in the Administration for the past two years has been one of the highest honors of my life and I will always be grateful to the President, the Secretary, and my colleagues at the State Department for their support.”  

Heather Nauert , State Department Spokeswoman.

Throughout President Trump’s  two-year-old administration, he has rewarded those who are loyal and trustworthy with plum cabinet positions despite a lack of experience.  The president’s selection of Nauert for his new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was no exception to this creed.   Nauert’s resume is thin on government service, and most blatantly, lacks any international/diplomatic experience. However, her resume reveals she come straight out of the Fox News factory of pro-Trump journalists, like others,  to go on to work for the 45th U.S. President.  Nauert worked for Fox News from 1998 to 2005. She then left to go work for ABC News but returned back home to Fox in 2007 and went on to become presenter for Fox & Friends. Then in 2017, she became State Department spokeswoman despite a lack of government experience.  One would have to be living on another planet these past two years of the Trump administration to not see that Fox is the president’s biggest fan and media supporter. Nauert has been a loyal, stylish advocate for  President Trump’s “America First” policy at the State Department.

Credit: AFP Getty /   U.S. Ambassador To United Nations Nikki Haley left her posting at the end of December 2018.

Bloomberg reported on Saturday that “Nauert’s nomination began to falter after the White House was alerted to a problem in her background: She had in the past employed an immigrant nanny who was in the U.S. legally but wasn’t authorized to work, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said:        “Heather Nauert has performed her duties as a senior member of my team with unequaled excellence. Her personal decision today to withdraw her name from consideration to become the nominee for United States Ambassador to the United Nations is a decision for which I have great respect. I wish Heather nothing but the best in all of her future endeavors and know that she will continue to be a great representative of this nation in whatever role she finds herself.”