Typical Trump nominee

President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, spent the equivalent of seven months of her 20-month tenure as U.S. ambassador to Canada back in the United States in places where she had homes, according to findings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Democratic staff.

The minority staff’s findings are drawn from previously undisclosed documents provided by the State Department and Craft to the full committee following a June 19 hearing.

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Democratic staff found that Craft — who hails from Lexington, Ky., and in 2016, married Joe Craft, a coal magnate from Tulsa, Okla. — spent all or part of 210 days, or a third of her time as ambassador to Canada, in either Kentucky or Oklahoma over the course of 43 trips. Half of those days were work days.

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The issue of her absences took on greater significance because Craft, a political appointee with close ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, lacked the extensive diplomatic or political experience typical of a U.N. nominee. Druing her confirmation hearing, Craft attributed much of her travel back to the United States to the demands of negotiating and promoting a revamped North American free trade pact. But Democrats found that only about 40 days of the 356 total days she spent partially or wholly outside of Canada were for trade negotiations. Moreover, the minority staff found that she had claimed 60 personal days away from the job.

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Suzanne Wrasse, a spokesperson for committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho), disputed some of the Democrats’ characterizations of Craft’s absences and indicated that the ambassador’s nomination is likely to advance from the committee, which has a 12-10 GOP majority, to the full Senate.

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“Canadians at the highest levels remain impressed with Ambassador Craft’s accomplishments in support of the U.S.-Canada relationship, and there is no question that she made a positive impact during her tenure as ambassador,” Wrasse said.

However, Canadian elected officials have told POLITICO that Craft kept a lower profile than previous ambassadors and often missed diplomatic events because of her extensive travel.

  Politico

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Remembering Kelly Craft as she began her ambassadorship:



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