Trump's pick for ambassador to NZ - please take him back USA

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To be fair the position is largely ceremonial. Here in Oz we've had a suspected war criminal posted as a high commissioner to Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-17/s ... es/3574946

The issue with dodgy characters put into diplomatic positions which they are unsuited and unqualified for is that they have diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution in their host countries. So it is a potentially ideal hunting ground for a sexual predator. They cannot be charged here for rape and other sexual offences unless the sending country's top officials agree - and of course Trump would never agree, as we know. So the only power we have is to ask the USA to take him back, or kick him out if diplomatic requests for a replacement fall on deaf ears.

CD, you may remember back in 2014, Edward Snowden revealed how important NZ was to the USA's spying programme. I assume Australia is too, though he was focusing on NZ at the time and the huge extent of data that the USA was getting from NZ which was crucial to them. However I don't think Trump would know this, nor care if someone tried to tell him; he thinks that the presidency can be run like a real estate business, and that is why his traditional 5 star allies have increasing contempt for him - that level of ignorance, laced with arrogance, in a USA president is unprecedented.

Appointing Brown to a diplomatic post is only one of many examples of Trump's appalling judgments:

1) appointing as national security advisor someone who was secretly a paid agent of foreign powers (he received close to $700,000 from Turkey and Russia) and then keeping him on to receive top secret briefings even after learning the truth about him;

2) appointing his wedding planner to run a HUD office;

3) appointing a neurosurgeon with ZERO experience in housing to run HUD;

4) appointing a woman who never sent her kids to public schools nor ever ran one to head the Dept. of Education;

and these are just a few examples, not the whole caboodle. I could write screeds about Pruitt's unsuitability.

This is why countries like New Zealand who once admired and supported US presidents of both stripes can't stand a bar of Trump, a poll here demonstrated that 98% think he is an abomination as a president.

Orange Julius apparently thinks the way to cultivate allies is to give them repeated pokes in the eye with a sharp stick.

I am sorry. It is small consolation, but at least you are not also hosting Adulteress Ambassadress Callista Gingrich and her serial adulterer thrice-married spouse. Them, he foisted on the Pope!

Julius C was no draft dodger, that's for sure! He'd be better than the orange barbarian anyday!

PA means "political appointee" - here is the list of USA ambassadors showing the amateur PA's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassado ... ted_States

Not at all, I am saying that we don't want an amateur whose behaviour is offensive and inconsistent with a diplomatic posting, as in my opening post.

Your choice.

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