{"id":2413372,"date":"2025-03-15T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-hostage-envoy-withdraws-nomination-will-still-serve-as-special-government-employee-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T23:40:02","slug":"trumps-hostage-envoy-withdraws-nomination-will-still-serve-as-special-government-employee-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-hostage-envoy-withdraws-nomination-will-still-serve-as-special-government-employee-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s hostage envoy withdraws nomination, will still serve as \u2018special government employee\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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%2Ftrumps-hostage-envoy-withdraws-nomination-will-still-serve-as-special-government-employee-washington-examiner%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=2413372&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 - 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He will continue this important work to bring wrongfully detained individuals around the world home,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Boehler&rsquo;s withdrawal of his nomination comes after he faced the ire of Israeli officials for holding private talks with Hamas. He also said on CNN&rsquo;s <em>State of the Union<\/em> that the U.S. is &ldquo;not an agent of Israel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Boehler initially defended the U.S.-Hamas talks, saying they were necessary to &ldquo;jump-start some negotiations that were in a very fragile place,&rdquo; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3342348\/cracks-appear-trump-israel-ceasefire-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"walked them back\">walked back<\/a> those comments after Israel inquired to Washington about his remarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR as some have misinterpreted. Hamas is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of innocent people. They are BY DEFINITION BAD people,&rdquo; he later said.<\/p>\n<p>The hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas have progressed slightly after the terrorist group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3347771\/hamas-agrees-exchange-american-hostage-edan-alexander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"agreed\">agreed<\/a> to release the last living American hostage, Edan Alexander, and the bodies of four dead hostages. On Saturday, Hamas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3349009\/hamas-release-american-hostage-eden-alexander-israel-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"revealed \">revealed<\/a> that Israel must adhere to a second phase of the ceasefire agreement in order to receive the hostages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2038156\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2038156\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s hostage envoy withdraws nomination, will still serve as \u2018special government employee\u2019 President Donald Trump\u2018s special envoy for hostage affairs has withdrawn his nomination, the White House announced late on Friday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Adam Boehler, who had been serving as the president\u2019s envoy while he awaited Senate confirmation, withdrew his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2413373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/adam-boehler-withdraws-nomination-hostage-envoy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/adam-boehler-withdraws-nomination-hostage-envoy.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413372","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\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}