Trump names conventional foreign policy hands to top State roles [View all]
Source: Politico
12/08/2024 08:38 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday unveiled a trio of picks for top State Department roles, elevating conventional national security hands to key policy roles in Foggy Bottom.
In a Truth Social post, Trump announced that Christopher Landau, who served as his ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021, is his pick for deputy secretary of State. Trump praised Landau, a lawyer turned diplomat who clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, as “one of our Country’s great lawyers” and said he will “work closely with our great Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to promote our Nation’s security and prosperity through an America First Foreign Policy.”
He also announced that Michael Needham will be counselor to the State Department, directly advising Rubio. Needham currently holds top leadership posts at the conservative policy groups American Compass and American 2100 and previously led the Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm.
Trump also named Michael Anton, who POLITICO reported was under consideration to be deputy national security adviser, as director of policy planning for the department.
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