South Africa one step closer to having a key Trump ally in Pretoria
The U.S. Senate on Thursday advanced the nominations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s picks for government positions, voting along party lines for nominees including conservative activist Leo Brent Bozell III to be ambassador to South Africa and former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce to be deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
The tally was 52-47 in a procedural vote to advance the nominations of 97 nominees for ambassadorial and sub-cabinet level positions. The vote was along party lines with all of Trump’s fellow Republicans voting in favor and every Democrat opposed.
Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana did not vote.
Ambassadors on the list included Bozell, a conservative media critic who would take up his position at a time of fraying ties between the U.S. and South Africa.
Repeating debunked claims that whites are persecuted in South Africa, Trump has established a refugee program favoring white South Africans and cut aid to the country.
In March, his administration expelled South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, who was described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a “race-baiting politician” who hates Trump.
Bozell’s son was among the pro-Trump crowds who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was convicted and sentenced to 45 months in prison but freed in January in Trump’s mass pardon of participants in the attack.
Also advanced on Thursday was the nomination of Tammy Bruce as deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations.
Bruce, a former Fox News contributor, served as State Department spokesperson during the first months of Trump’s second term this year.
Following months of complaining that Democrats were slowing the installation of Trump’s picks to important government positions, Republicans resorted to the so-called nuclear option in September to change the Senate’s rules to give the minority party less ability to slow down nominations.
The rule change means that the majority can move large groups of nominees in one package for votes on confirmation, instead of one at a time.
The shift does not affect the confirmations of federal judges and heads of Cabinet agencies.
Senate divisions along party lines have widened since Trump began his second term on January 20. Republicans have nearly unanimously supported his nominees and initiatives, while Democrats have opposed them.
Each party has accused the other of refusing to compromise.
- Reporting by Patricia Zengerle.
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Trump is the most racist white person.that he thinks is feared in his life,while he does not know ,to some of us is just a normal idiot that is full of hate ,inhuman idiot that live in fear,remembering how he does to others,this will come back to him,he should be scared ,this wrongs will come back to them,one day it will,all those contry they are continuing killing ,colonizing and destroying will revenge themselves,No sin will go unpunished.America should stop the killing of other nations under the false accusation and buld lies,including this white colonozers in this countries,by feeding those liesm out of what they have been doing in our people all this years to the owners of south African land,due to greediness and selfish ness to keep on exploiting our minerals in our country for thir race only.As a medea house ,start to be patriotic,stop to be biased,all of you ,you are staying in the same country that you lie about ,thinking that you wont be affected or be safe,when America come and attack your industries and mines,like they do now in Gaza,helping the most killers , israel,inhuman behavior,its in their blood to kill,using terorist words like they are not,America its them that are terorist.I am saying be patriotic and have tapics that are building and difending your country,not only destroying the image of this country like you are pleasing your white bosses living in Europe where are from.,you are living in south Africa not in America.Start to understand that how much impact,of your lies ,does it costThe pleadge of the ANC in the Constitution Preamble,that says: “We the people of South Africa.Recognise the injustice of our past( the arpartheid systems and policies),Honour those who sufferd( black people,that was,still do) for justice and freedom in our land( blacks land).Respect those who have worked(blacks) to build and develop our country,and Believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it(this is to conscientise the white maniority that thing this land was for only them),united in our diversity.We therefore,through our freely elected representatives,adopt this Contitution as the supreme law of the Republic so as to:Heal the divisions of the past and current and establish a society based on democratic values,sicial justice and fundamental human rights.White people did not and does not do that ,they still continue as usual,by practicing the habit of being superior and owners of this land that they posessed it it forcefully,corruptly and devide among themselves,tthey never change,even if us as original people of this land tried so many times including the 31 years in power ,they always tried to devde themselves from us and want to be bossy,.THe slave masters,still grt lies report from their security (White minority) inhuman ,babaric and satanist report for their bosses to attack our convernmsnt,like what has happened in other countrie example of Gaza by Israel.We know for a fact that while people does not want black people thats why they always try their best to apply other means to lie and apply other method of killing and devaluing our government and Africans specifictly and blacks in particular.Let white European African go and pray to their fake European religion called Christianity,that has robbed and planned to exploit land and minerals,including their system of Democracy made to enforce to nation for their minerals .Let them ask their God to help them and change ,be born again to humans,because now they are still animals in the foreighn land . Africa has waken up.We are still peading to you,Please change