Dina Powell drops out of consideration for U.N. ambassador

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs executive and former deputy national security adviser to President Trump, asked that her name be removed from consideration to replace U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Thursday morning.

Powell was considered to be one of Mr. Trump's top choices for the post, which will be vacated by Haley at the end of the year. According to CBS News' Major Garrett, Mr. Trump agreed to the request.

"Dina is certainly a person I would consider and she's under consideration," Mr. Trump told reporters Tuesday. However, some in Mr. Trump's orbit have opposed Powell as a contender, due to her time working for the Bush administration.

Mr. Trump also said that his daughter, Ivanka, would be "dynamite" as the new U.N. ambassador. However, Ivanka Trump withdrew herself from consideration via Twitter.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dina-powell-drops-out-of-consideration-for-un-ambassador/

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It's telling who Spanky is considering to fill this strategic position, NOT someone with years of diplomatic or government experience, but a financial executive.

[democratisphere]

1. Only the best and the brightest....

run like hell in the opposite direction.

[still_one]

2. It is also telling that there are some who don't want to be associated with this administration in a

other than


Kanye West


Hold the presses



Kanye West will be the U.S. representative to the U.N. Meets all the qualifications


Completely unqualified

[RockRaven]

3. There's a reason Haley resigned, and it isn't the travel/corruption allegations, she didn't want to

be there when some pending shoe dropped. And Powell wants no part of it either.

What is it? I don't know, I could only give half a dozen informed-by-publicly-available-news guesses. But Haley does, and Powell has at minimum a vague notion.

Haley is a cynical opportunist. She's leaving because leaving is the self-interested strategy in this moment. Absent an obvious opportunity that she's jumping INTO, we must conclude she is jumping OUT OF a perilous-for-her-future-career situation.

[SMC22307]

4. And why the effusive praise for Jarvanka?

Did she gush over anyone else in this disaster of an admin? That was baffling to me.

[dhol82]

6. Covering her ass

[SMC22307]

7. That doesn't really explain it.

Covering from whom? Drumpf? Jarvanka?

[dhol82]

5. +1

[Turbineguy]

8. Maybe she has a few skeletons in the closet.

Like maybe she gave to a worthy cause and doesn't want anybody on the GOP to find out about it.

[Zoonart]

9. Vonkers it is then.

Dilly-Dilly

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Watch has been the major world wide story line these last fews.

Where does Powell work? You got it,so many conflicts of interest with the Saudi Royal Family it would take days to write them down.

Has anyone seen or heard a word from the DNI chief? Oh Mr. Coates where are you. Just the tip of the berg me thinks.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Why would Powell working for Bush make her ineligible? Kav. worked for Bush.

???

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Well, That didn't take long. eom

[BumRushDaShow]

13. As a note for those of us who read "Fire and Fury" (and those who didn't)

Sortof a good summary regarding Powell and what might be going on here...

What Kind of Woman Works for Donald Trump?

Nobody—save, maybe, Katie Walsh—looks good in ‘Fire and Fury.’ But its depiction of the women of Trumpland showcases the indignities they’ve endured.

Erin Gloria Ryan
01.06.18 3:59 PM ET

<...>

Wolff devotes a fair amount of ink to now-departed-former deputy national security advisor Dina Powell, who Ivanka convinced to join the administration as a counterweight to Kellyanne Conway. Ivanka doesn’t like Kellyanne; Ivanka likes Dina. Dina was a well-bred climber who thought she could parlay her White House post into something like Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook role. She and Ivanka had a “mutually codependent” relationship where Ivanka counted on Dina’s actual expertise in the things Ivanka pretended to be good at, like managing people, and Dina used Ivanka to stay on the president’s good side.

<...>

https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-kind-of-woman-works-for-donald-trump

One might take note that with all the departures that have gone on there, it's pretty amazing to think about who is actually left (other than the personal family). Yup, the nutcracker queen herself, Kellyanne Conway.

Much ado has been made of Manafort and Lewandowski but Conway was the one who actually took him all the way to the finish line and it boggles the mind why the media hasn't really delved deep into her and why she is still there.