{"id":1367471,"date":"2022-03-09T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367471"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:46:39","slug":"exclusive-bidens-ambassador-to-germany-has-spent-last-two-weeks-in-america-not-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-bidens-ambassador-to-germany-has-spent-last-two-weeks-in-america-not-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8211; Biden&#039;s Ambassador to Germany Has Spent Last Two Weeks in America, Not Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-bidens-ambassador-to-germany-has-spent-last-two-weeks-in-america-not-europe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367471&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann, has spent more than two weeks back in the United States of America rather than working in Germany, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>Gutmann, who Breitbart News reported in mid-February traveled back to the U.S. after presenting her credentials to make an appearance at the Munich Security Conference, has not returned to Germany. As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/21\/exclusive-bidens-ambassador-germany-returns-us-after-just-days-job-kamala-refused-let-her-fly-air-force-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> at the time, Vice President Kamala Harris refused to let Gutmann fly back to the states on Air Force Two \u2014 and the Biden ambassador took a commercial flight home. It is still unclear if the ambassador or taxpayers paid for that flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Berlin confirmed to Breitbart News that the ambassador has not been back in Germany since she returned to the United States. The spokesman, Joseph Giordono-Scholz, insisted that Gutmann has been working during her time in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile in the United States, Ambassador Gutmann has conducted a full range of in-depth policy briefings throughout the State Department, National Security Council, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and other agencies, as well as with German government officials in Washington,\u201d Giordono-Scholz said in an email. \u201cThis will ensure the Ambassador is fully aligned with our policy priorities across the U.S. government, and gives her the best possible preparation as she leads Mission Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when Gutmann will return to Germany, but the fact she has not been in Europe during the entirety of the Russian-Ukraine war \u2014 Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, three days after Breitbart News first reported that Gutmann had returned to the United States for a trip home that is now confirmed to be still ongoing \u2014 is particularly interesting. Germany is in many ways at the center of the crisis in Europe, given that it is the recipient of Russian natural gas via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that Biden reopened after his predecessor former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/08\/exclusive-donald-trump-nord-stream-2-i-shut-down-biden-opened-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked<\/a> it. Germany is also home to the U.S. Air Force base Ramstein Air Base, which is where Polish government forces delivered Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that Poland intended to be given to the Ukrainians. The Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday that it does not believe Poland\u2019s push to do this is \u201ctenable,\u201d even after the Polish delivered the jets to Ramstein in Germany:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We do not believe Poland\u2019s proposal is a tenable one,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says after Poland said it was ready to provide its MIG-29s at the U.S.&#8217;s disposal, adding, &#8220;It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QwMwet7x0o\">pic.twitter.com\/QwMwet7x0o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1501335954371530757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gutmann\u2019s confirmation was rushed by the U.S. Senate after it was held up for some time, ostensibly because the White House pressured senators earlier this year claiming that Biden needed her engaged in diplomacy amid this crisis in Europe. But the fact she has not even been to Germany since Russia invaded Ukraine\u2013never mind even on the continent of Europe, spending the entire time for more than two weeks in the United States instead\u2013raises serious questions about that. Some U.S. Senate sources say the credibility of the White House on such matters is now in doubt, with one senior GOP Senate aide telling Breitbart News that senators will no longer as a result of Gutmann\u2019s behavior since confirmation take Biden seriously when he asks for a speedy confirmation favor like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe should be working\u2013and in Germany\u2013dealing with this crisis, trying to shut down Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline,\u201d the Senate aide said. \u201cInstead, she\u2019s back here in the United States the entire time doing who knows what. Lesson learned: We\u2019ll remember next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Career diplomats are watching too, and think Gutmann\u2019s conduct is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are ambassadors who do substantive work and ambassadors who entertain and attend parties,\u201d a former State Department official told Breitbart News. \u201cAmy is not interested in doing anything difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former State Department official added, derisively, that \u201cmaybe she was getting flag training.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Major downgrade. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0Gr3J4AdN\">pic.twitter.com\/P0Gr3J4AdN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Outspoken (@GetOutspokenUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GetOutspokenUSA\/status\/1494394259868459009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is a reference to a meme that went viral of Gutmann apparently mixing up the U.S. and German flags when she was beginning her job and was presented her credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann, has spent more than two weeks back in the United States of America rather than working in Germany, Breitbart News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}