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Exclusive — Biden’s Ambassador to Germany Returns to US after Just Days on Job; Kamala Refused to Let Her Fly on Air Force Two
breitbart.com ^ | 2/21/2022 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 02/22/2022 12:58:14 PM PST by rktman

Democrat President Joe Biden’s U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann, has returned to the United States just days after first reporting for duty during the Munich Security Conference, taking a commercial flight back to the States after Vice President Kamala Harris refused to let her fly home on Air Force Two.

Gutmann, who presented her credentials just days ago — Thursday of last week — to begin work as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, attended meetings at the Munich Security Conference with world leaders and fellow top U.S. officials, including Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Instead of staying in Germany to work at this critical time in foreign policy in Europe, an embassy spokesman confirmed that Gutmann is now back stateside just days after first reporting for duty. Germany is one of the key geographic centerpieces of the unfolding Russia-Ukraine conflict, given Biden’s decision to allow Nordstream 2, the Russian natural gas pipeline into Germany, to proceed after his predecessor former President Donald Trump held up the pipeline during his administration. The Kremlin has been increasingly emboldened since Biden opened up the pipeline and now threats of a potential invasion in Ukraine perhaps represent the possibility of the biggest war in Europe since World War II.

“The White House lobbied the Senate to confirm Gutmann this month because they said she was urgently needed in Germany due to an impending war from Russia,” a former State Department official told Breitbart News.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: allendale

Nordstream 1 still pumping away!😃


41 posted on 02/22/2022 1:58:03 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Billthedrill

Ambassador Gutmann has temporarily returned to the United States to undertake cross-government consultations on the situation and to complete necessary State Department in-processing...

These are words in the English language but assembled like that carry zero semantic content. A masterpiece.

The phraseology is straight out of 1984’s “duck speak”.

“The intention was to make speech, and especially speech on any subject not ideologically neutral, as nearly as possible independent of consciousness.”


42 posted on 02/22/2022 1:58:21 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: antidemoncrat

The first thing she would do is Payback Time because you know that angry ‘woke’ bish has kept a list.


43 posted on 02/22/2022 1:58:42 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: allendale

Quit griping ; we too are importing gas - was 10% now going to 20% for the anti-pipeline, anti-fracking haters in New England ... From Russia ...


44 posted on 02/22/2022 1:59:07 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: kiryandil

Barry Obama and Putin photo....

Barry O: “The biggest, hardest, toughest arm including since I last patted Michelle’s. Don’t tell anybody I’m betting a few thousand of children’s hunger foundation money on you in the arm wrestling against her tonight. Official secrets, you know. And watch it. She fights dirty. Always.”


45 posted on 02/22/2022 2:00:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Too bad our MSM is so lame.
This would be an interesting story to see developed.


46 posted on 02/22/2022 2:00:33 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: frank ballenger
“So then I sent President Harris overseas to straighten this all out. The history books will say of me ‘He kept us out of war.’”

Willie Brown:

Piece In Our Time


47 posted on 02/22/2022 2:01:06 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: rktman

She learned that they have German food there and speak some sort of foreign tongue so she flees home to filet minion, and apple pie where people don’t speak gobbledygook.


48 posted on 02/22/2022 2:01:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Nothing like a catfight between a United States Vice President and a US Ambassador during a potential war to make our country look like a petty sorority bar fight.

Astute observation.

If they go into a restroom now and the Secret Service stands outside with arms folded, look out.

49 posted on 02/22/2022 2:02:08 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Tell It Right

Catfight...


50 posted on 02/22/2022 2:02:23 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: kiryandil

Sho nuff.


51 posted on 02/22/2022 2:03:11 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

52 posted on 02/22/2022 2:03:48 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Billthedrill
"Ambassador Gutmann has temporarily returned to the United States to undertake cross-government consultations on the situation and to complete necessary State Department in-processing...

These are words in the English language but assembled like that carry zero semantic content. A masterpiece."

Oh, I can translate!

Ambassador Gutmann has temporarily returned to the United States BEEN RECALLED to undertake cross-government consultations on the situation LEARN WHAT THE HELL SHE'S DOING and to complete necessary State Department in-processing TRY TO GET PAST THE ALL THE BLACK MARKS IN HER BACKGROUND CHECK...

you're welcome :-)
53 posted on 02/22/2022 2:06:06 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: PIF

Well her father lived the first couple decades of his life in Germany so I assume she had some exposure to German culture.


54 posted on 02/22/2022 2:06:08 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

55 posted on 02/22/2022 2:13:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nascarnation
It is unclear if taxpayers paid for Gutmann’s flight home to the United States after Harris and her team denied the ambassador a seat on Air Force Two

At first glance it seems extremely petty. What is the backstory?

56 posted on 02/22/2022 2:15:36 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: rktman
Not sure she resigned. Just back in country working “issues”.

I think that's State Department speak for recalled. Which is quite an accomplishment after only one week on the job.

57 posted on 02/22/2022 2:17:53 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Laslo Fripp

The audience at the meetings obviously preferred the ambassador over Harris. “You guys need to remember” Harris certainly has an IQ falling in line just below the potted plants in the lobby. That tends to make people pass you over in favor of someone with some knowledge and intelligence over the subject matter.


58 posted on 02/22/2022 2:20:26 PM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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To: Rummyfan

Wild guess:

Gutmann was sent with a confidential message for someone in Europe. A message she could not share even with Kamala. The question is taunting: Why pay for a commercial flight when Kamala’s plane was making same trip at same time?


59 posted on 02/22/2022 2:20:29 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah, most likely a scheduling conflict, aka, a nothingburger.


60 posted on 02/22/2022 2:22:36 PM PST by gloryblaze
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