{"id":1920794,"date":"2023-04-28T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-free-beacon-investigative-reporter-talks-bidens-controversial-pick-for-african-union-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:34:06","slug":"watch-free-beacon-investigative-reporter-talks-bidens-controversial-pick-for-african-union-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-free-beacon-investigative-reporter-talks-bidens-controversial-pick-for-african-union-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Free Beacon Investigative Reporter Talks Biden&#8217;s Controversial Pick For African Union Ambassador"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwatch-free-beacon-investigative-reporter-talks-bidens-controversial-pick-for-african-union-ambassador%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=1920794&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>\n<h2>Biden&#8217;s Pick for Top Africa Job Raises Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>The nomination of Stephanie Sanders Sullivan as ambassador to the African Union has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nobel-peace-prize-the-most-controversial-winners\/\" title=\"Nobel Peace Prize: The Most Controversial Winners\">raised eyebrows<\/a>, as it took her three attempts to pass the Foreign Service Officer Test and she admitted to struggling with the English grammar section. This is part of a pattern from the White House of not nominating the most qualified individuals, according to <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> senior investigative reporter Joe Simonson.<\/p>\n<h3>Questionable Behavior<\/h3>\n<p>Sullivan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-free-beacon-investigative-reporter-talks-bidens-controversial-pick-for-african-union-ambassador\/\" title=\"WATCH: Free Beacon Investigative Reporter Talks Biden's Controversial Pick For African Union Ambassador\">long diplomatic career included stints<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-pauses-plan-to-offer-vaccines-to-guantanamo-bay-detainees\/\" title=\"Pentagon Pauses Plan To Offer Vaccines To Guantanamo Bay Detainees\">deputy assistant secretary<\/a> for African affairs and U.S. ambassador to Ghana, where she displayed partisan behavior by calling for gay rights parades and discussing George Floyd and structural racism during her 2020 Fourth of July address. Senate Republicans are questioning her fitness for the African Union post.<\/p>\n<h3>Curious Nomination<\/h3>\n<p>The ambassador to the African Union will play a crucial role in Washington&#8217;s efforts to rebuff Chinese influence on the continent, making Sullivan&#8217;s nomination even more curious. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to understand where the Biden administration is coming from,&#8221; says Simonson, adding that Sullivan &#8220;doesn&#8217;t really seem to appreciate America very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pushback from Republicans<\/h3>\n<p>Republicans, including Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio), are &#8220;pumping the brakes&#8221; and refusing to rubber-stamp the Biden administration&#8217;s picks for crucial positions. It remains to be seen whether Sullivan&#8217;s nomination will be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-pick-for-top-africa-job-twice-failed-foreign-service-officer-test-couldnt-get-through-the-english-grammar-section\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE: Biden&#8217;s Pick For Top Africa Job Twice Failed Foreign Service Officer Test, &#8216;Couldn\u2019t Get Through the English Grammar Section&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0senior investigative reporter Joe Simonson joined Fox News&#8217;s Brian Kilmeade Thursday to discuss his report on President Joe Biden&#8217;s pick to serve as ambassador to the African Union, who twice failed the Foreign Service Officer Test and said she &#8220;couldn\u2019t even get through the English grammar section.&#8221; &#8220;This is part of a pattern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1920795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7975,11079,4092,3706,4803,11069,4926,5046,3745,4701,4516],"class_list":["post-1920794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-african","tag-ambassador","tag-beacon","tag-bidens","tag-controversial","tag-investigative","tag-pick","tag-reporter","tag-talks","tag-union","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920794","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}