President Trump has nominated CIA veteran Ronald Johnson, his former Ambassador to El Salvador, to function Ambassador to Mexico in his subsequent administration.
That is regardless of a number of media reviews and rumors from sources near the Trump crew that Kari Lake was a prime contender for the function. Supporters of Lake have additionally referred to as for Trump to provide Lake a job someplace on the border, citing her advocacy for Trump’s border insurance policies whereas preventing towards the rigged system in her bids for Governor and Senate in Arizona.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that a number of sources acquainted with the matter stated Lake was in talks with Trump about serving as his Ambassador to Mexico.
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Nonetheless, Trump determined to go together with Ronald Johnson, which is considerably of a letdown for a lot of.
Trump made the announcement in a Fact Social post-Tuesday night, noting that Johnson “labored tirelessly with Salvadoran authorities and our crew to scale back violent crime and unlawful migration to the bottom ranges in Historical past” as Ambassador to El Salvador:
Trump: I’m happy to appoint Ronald (Ron) Johnson to function the US Ambassador to Mexico. Ron will work carefully with our nice Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to advertise our Nation’s safety and prosperity by sturdy America First Overseas Insurance policies. Throughout my First Time period, Ron served because the Ambassador to El Salvador, the place he labored tirelessly with Salvadoran authorities and our crew to scale back violent crime and unlawful migration to the bottom ranges in Historical past. He additionally served our Nation for over twenty years with the Central Intelligence Company after a distinguished profession within the U.S. Military as a Inexperienced Beret. He graduated from the Nationwide Intelligence College with a Grasp of Strategic Intelligence.
Congratulations Ron. Collectively, we’ll put an finish to migrant crime, cease the unlawful circulation of Fentanyl and different harmful medicine into our Nation and, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!
As one consumer identified on X, Lake could have “a goal on her again there given her vocal disdain for cartel rubbish happening right here” and might be higher off serving in a distinct function right here in the US.
Good. Not tthat she wouldn’t have carried out a terrific job…however she has zero enterprise in that place with a goal on her again there given her vocal disdain for cartel rubbish happening right here. I by no means as soon as thought of this report back to be true.
— AZCoolRay (@AZCoolRay) December 11, 2024
Actual America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam has prompt that Lake, whose final two elections had been stolen, ought to function Trump’s Elections Czar and “go after these corrupt election officers and the politicians which have offered out to the cartels and communist traitors.”
Maybe there’s room for Lake on the Division of Justice’s Civil Rights Division alongside conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, who President Trump nominated Monday to function Assistant Lawyer Normal for Civil Rights. If anybody is aware of about stolen elections, it is Kari Lake, who was and stays an unwavering backer of Trump’s criticism of the stolen 2020 election.
If Arizona will get away with stealing the election from @KariLake once more I hope President @realDonaldTrump brings her on because the elections Czar to go after these corrupt election officers and the politicians which have offered out to the cartels and communist traitors! #TrumpWon #KariWon… pic.twitter.com/MdRbwgj3EI
— Ben Bergquam – Actual America’s Voice (RAV-TV) Information (@BenBergquam) November 17, 2024
Hopefully, Trump will nonetheless have room for Kari Lake in his administration, and her unimaginable expertise is not going to be wasted.
