{"id":4446,"date":"2025-01-04T22:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-chooses-estonia-born-lawyer-as-ambassador-to-the-baltic-nation-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T22:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:20:29","slug":"trump-chooses-estonia-born-lawyer-as-ambassador-to-the-baltic-nation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-chooses-estonia-born-lawyer-as-ambassador-to-the-baltic-nation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump chooses Estonia-born lawyer as ambassador to the Baltic nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Estonian-born lawyer Roman Pipko as his nominee for America&rsquo;s next ambassador to the tiny Baltic country. The position requires Senate confirmation, and Republican control of the upper chamber should make such approval relatively easy to obtain. Still, the role could get more attention than normal because Estonia shares a border with Russia and is among the European countries most vocal about the need to defend Ukraine as it fights off a Russian invasion&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/03\/congress\/trumps-estonia-pick-00196468\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Estonian-born lawyer Roman Pipko as his nominee for America&rsquo;s next ambassador to the tiny Baltic country. The position requires Senate confirmation, and Republican control of the upper chamber should make such approval relatively easy to obtain. Still, the role could get more attention than normal because Estonia shares a border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}