Trump's UN ambassador pick withdraws from consideration

Washington: Heather Nauert, the incumbent spokeswoman for the US State Department and also President Donald Trump's pick to be the country's new UN ambassador, withdrew from consideration. "I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary (Mike) Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of US Ambassador to the United Nations. However, the past two months have been gruelling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration," Nauert said in a statement on Saturday. Trump in a tweet in December, had announced that he was picking Nauert for the role. The 48-year-old former Fox News journalist served as State Department spokes­­­woman during the tenure of Rex Tillerson, who was forced out last year, and for Pompeo. (IANS)

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