Kelly Knight Craft
Forget the idea of hiring the “best people.”
By appointing Kelly Knight Craft to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Donald Trump has once again shown he prefers to hire totally unqualified people who happen to be loyal to him and who have donated millions of dollars to his campaigns.
Knight Craft has been Ambassador to Canada for two years, which is fine, because it is a figurehead job with no real responsibility. But U.N. Ambassador is different. It’s a real job with critical responsibilities — and it includes a seat on the U.N. Security Council.
Trump announced the appointment via tweet, writing:
“I am pleased to announce that Kelly Knight Craft, our current Ambassador to Canada, is being nominated to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations.”
“Kelly has done an outstanding job representing our Nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at the highest level. Congratulations to Kelly and her entire family!”
No formal White House announcement has been made yet.
Knight Craft is best known for her science-denying remarks, saying she believes in “both sides” of climate change, whatever that means. Global warming is one of the top issues currently being addressed by the United Nations.
Trump neglected to mention that Knight Craft, along with her billionaire coal baron husband, donated millions of dollars to Trump’s presidential campaign.
And of course the use of coal is one of the major causes of global warming.
Knight Craft is from Kentucky, where she has long been a major GOP donor, or, as one Canadian news publication described it, “Knight Craft is well known among Republicans, to whom she has donated piles of money.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, reportedly recommended her for the role of UN Ambassador.
This week McConnell’s wife, Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was caught up in a new, disgusting corruption scandal.
“Chao has met at least 10 times with Kentucky business leaders or politicians after email requests made by her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)”
“A cache of more than 800 emails—obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the watchdog group American Oversight—shows that some of those meetings led to McConnell’s associates being granted their wishes by the powerful Transportation Secretary—from infrastructure grants to highway project funding. In at least one example, the lobbyist had donated to McConnell’s re-election campaign.”
It’s not surprising that McConnell played a crucial role in this new ridiculous appointment by Trump of an unqualified person to a critical national security role.
It’s another example of corruption — Knight Craft has given millions to both Trump and McConnell — so they reward her with this high profile position.
McConnell are proving once again that they don’t care about the country. They care only about their own pocketbooks and their own political power.
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