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Will the Coronavirus Leave Joe and Kelly Craft Homeless? Maybe the Fed Can Help

May 15, 2020

A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on federal rules aimed at safeguarding the environment, slowing climate change and protecting miners and other …

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Kelly Craft Clarifies Her Worldview: Trump’s Word Reigns Supreme

April 17, 2020

by Irwin Arieff

What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international blame game. Just two weeks later, there she was, jumping on Trump’s blame-game bandwagon. What …

Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations

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US Ambassador Kelly Craft Resumes Campaign Donations with a Big Gift to Trump

February 26, 2020

by Irwin Arieff

Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump. The gift is the first that Craft, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has dished out since joining the diplomatic corps as ambassador …

Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

August 26, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting her into? Knight Craft, the soft-spoken wife of a billionaire coal executive from Kentucky, demonstrates …

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Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is That a Problem?

March 12, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with millions in campaign contributions in 2016. (A business consultant before she became a diplomat, she’s …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Senate Hearing for Heather Nauert as US Envoy to UN Could Happen in February

January 14, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

President Trump announced that he was nominating Heather Nauert, the chief State Department spokesperson, to succeed Nikki Haley as the United States ambassador to the United Nations on Dec. 7, 2018, after Haley resigned the job in October. Since Trump’s announcement, by tweet, much has been reported on the nomination and bare-bones experience of …

Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Will Trump’s Musical Chairs Leave Nikki Haley Without a Seat?

March 23, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

Nikki Haley insisted all along that she had no desire to become Donald Trump’s secretary of state. But with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, in line to succeed Rex Tillerson as the State Department’s top dog, Haley may soon find that her thinking was a big mistake. Haley asked Trump right from the start …

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US ambassador to UN

Will the Coronavirus Leave Joe and Kelly Craft Homeless? Maybe the Fed Can Help

Kelly Craft Clarifies Her Worldview: Trump’s Word Reigns Supreme

US Ambassador Kelly Craft Resumes Campaign Donations with a Big Gift to Trump

Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is That a Problem?

Senate Hearing for Heather Nauert as US Envoy to UN Could Happen in February

Will Trump’s Musical Chairs Leave Nikki Haley Without a Seat?

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