US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman resigns

[itcfish]

Source: The Hill

Rats jumping ship??

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456352-us-ambassador-to-russia-jon-huntsman-resigns



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trumps-ambassador-to-russia-calls-it-quits/

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456352-us-ambassador-to-russia-jon-huntsman-resigns

[murielm99]

1. Yep. Rats jumping the ship.

[delisen]

2. Ambitious Republicans need to distance themselves

from Trump before they run for office.

[Nitram]

11. He's not jumping ship. He's going to run for governor.

[mainer]

3. I think Huntsman was simply serving his country

as so many career diplomats have continued to do, despite their dislike of Trump.

Obama trusted him enough to appoint him ambassador to China.

I'm wondering if he resigned to run against Trump in the primary. Or he simply got fed up with being kept in the dark about Trump/Putin communications.

[JI7]

4. agree

[onetexan]

14. yea but when he tried to run for president in 2015 he knocked Obama calling him a friend

guy's a snake like the rest of them

[dalton99a]

5. He's sick and tired of working for a traitor

[riversedge]

18. Any decent, moral person would be.

[BamaRefugee]

6. His food taster probably dropped dead. You know how Putin loves to poison people.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. In case anyone wants to know exactly *WHY* this has happened, here's exactly why:

CNN previously reported that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the need for a new US ambassador in Russia while speaking on the phone last week. The two men did not mention any names of potential replacements for Huntsman, two officials said

[SunSeeker]

8. Yep. Putin is Trump's de facto Chief of Staff. nt

[EveHammond13]

9. probably Seb Gorka

[ScratchCat]

12. Too bad Huntsman

Couldn't have said something like "I wasn't planning on resigning now, but Don and Vlad think its best".

Not one person - NOT ONE - who has been appointed and then kicked out for not bowing to Trump has gone public and made comments like this. What.The.Hell.Is.Wrong.With.People? If you took the job to "serve your country" and not because you were a Trump-Humper, then SAY SOMETHING!

[Princetonian]

16. Huntsman is too squeaky clean to be blackmailed.

[Mike_DuBois]

10. Lots of respect for Huntsman

We could use a few more like him and a lot less like Huckleberry

[Grasswire2]

13. Putin and Trump talked last week about the need for a new ambassador.

So...........this is Putin's doing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. I hear Mitch McConnell is very familiar with the Russian political circuit ... (nt)

[Marcuse]

17. No need for a US Ambassador. There are many direct back channels between the Kremlin and Oval Office