{"id":28443,"date":"2024-12-15T05:45:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-taps-richard-grenell-as-presidential-envoy-for-special-missions-edward-s-walsh-as-ireland-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T05:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T05:45:20","slug":"trump-taps-richard-grenell-as-presidential-envoy-for-special-missions-edward-s-walsh-as-ireland-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-taps-richard-grenell-as-presidential-envoy-for-special-missions-edward-s-walsh-as-ireland-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Richard Grenell as presidential envoy for special missions, Edward S. Walsh as Ireland ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump named<\/a> a couple of key first-term allies to roles in his second administration, including Richard Grenell.<\/p>\n

Grenell was the incoming president’s pick as presidential envoy for special missions, a post that will likely drive the administration’s policies in some of the most contentious regions of the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea<\/a>,” Trump said in the announcement Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

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Grenell was Trump’s intelligence chief during the president’s first administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“In my First Term, Ric was the United States Ambassador to Germany, Acting Director of National Intelligence, and Presidential Envoy for Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations,” Trump said. “Previously, he spent eight years inside the United Nations Security Council, working with North Korea, and developments in numerous other Countries.”<\/p>\n

Trump also announced Edward Sharp Walsh as his pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Edward is the President of the Walsh Company, a very successful nationwide construction and real estate firm. He is a great philanthropist in his local community, and previously served as the Chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority Board,” Trump announced.<\/p>\n

The picks are the latest in a string of nominations<\/a> the president-elect hopes the Senate will approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump named a couple of key first-term allies to roles in his second administration, including Richard Grenell. Grenell was the incoming president’s pick as presidential envoy for special missions, a post that will likely drive the administration’s policies in some of the most contentious regions of the world.\u00a0 “Ric will work in some of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}