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<\/a><\/p>\nDonald Trump will pick Richard Grenell,\u00a0former spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, as ambassador to Germany, the White House announced on Friday night. If confirmed Grenell would become the first openly LGBTQ appointee of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year it was thought that Trump would pick Grenell as ambassador to NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n Said the White House of Grenell\u2019s background:<\/p>\n \u201cMr.\u00a0Grenell<\/span>,\u00a0a foreign policy writer and commentator, founded the international consulting firm Capitol Media Partners in 2010.\u00a0 For nearly two decades, he has served as the primary communications adviser for public officials at the local, state, Federal, and international levels, as well as for a Fortune 200 ranked company.\u00a0 Mr.\u00a0Grenell<\/span>\u00a0is the longest serving United States spokesman at the United Nations (2001-2008) having served four United States Ambassadors.\u00a0 He earned a B.A. from Evangel University and an MPA from Harvard University\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government.\u201d<\/p>\n Grenell\u00a0served as an advisor to Mitt Romney<\/a>\u00a0during his 2012 campaign for president but was forced to resign after a campaign by social conservatives.<\/p>\n The American Family Association\u2019s Bryan Fischer\u00a0was among those<\/a>\u00a0leading the charge.<\/p>\n Argued Fischer in a CNN appearance<\/a>: \u201cWell, the point here is that personnel is policy. Everybody in D.C. says that. Personnel is policy. When Governor Romney picks somebody who is an activist homosexual and puts him in a prominent position, he\u2019s sending a shout out, it seems to me, to the homosexual lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Trump Nominates Richard Grenell as Ambassador to Germany, Would Be First Openly Gay Appointee<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n