Posted on 03/08/2017 3:05:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. has accepted President Trump's offer to be the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Fox News has confirmed.
Sources told Fox that Trump called Huntsman Monday to offer him the job. If confirmed, Huntsman would head to Moscow at a time when relations between the U.S. and Russia have reached a low point in the post-Cold War era.
Hunstman's acceptance also ends speculation about a possible primary challenge against Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is up for re-election next year.
Huntsman previously served as U.S. Ambassador to China between 2009 and 2011, when he resigned to launch a bid for the 2012 Republican nomination. He dropped out of the race after finishing third in the New Hampshire primary and endorsed eventual nominee Mitt Romney.
Huntsman was elected governor of Utah in 2004 and re-elected in 2008. He resigned seven months into his second term to become ambassador to Beijing.
Huntsman's daughter, Abby, is a co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Good place for him. Then cancel his passport.
The RATs will investigate him for ties to Russia.
Hatch needs to be replaced in 2018.
His vote for the Gang of Amnesty shows which side he is on, along with Corker, Heller and Flake, who all need to be primaried out.
That should keep the UT NeverTrump off Trump’s back.
NOOOOOOOOOO!! This globalist was a goober Ambassador to China. Wasn’t he filmed there, acting odd, at an outdoor event?
Of ALL the qualified candidates, why the flip would Trump pick this RINO/globalist??
Huntsman was an avowed Never Trumper, asking Trump to step down as late as October.
My question is especially why would he since he was a Never Trumper working against Trump at least through October?
To get him out of the country? Exile is a fine art.
He’ll be 86. Is he running AGAIN?
Nothing has come out on this yet but it appears that Trump and Tillerson believe that Huntsman’s knowledge of China will help him pry Russia and China apart.
Oh carp! Isn’t he the one who sold the uranium to the Rooskis. Oops! No, that was Clintoon. Nevermind.
As long as he doesn’t take Abby with him . . .
Hatch, like McCain, does not think we can live without him being in the Senate.
One more try at the Gang of Amnesty.
This is a move on the 3-D chess board. The reason behind this selection may not be apparent on the surface, but it will emerge over time.
Have some faith.
If true, absolute stupidity.
To Putin with love from DJT.
Second cousin to Mitt Romney
They share a grandfather (who had multiple wives)
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