{"id":4707,"date":"2025-01-10T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-pick-for-sweden-ambassador-didnt-clear-the-senate-when-he-nominated-her-the-last-time\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:03:50","slug":"trumps-pick-for-sweden-ambassador-didnt-clear-the-senate-when-he-nominated-her-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-pick-for-sweden-ambassador-didnt-clear-the-senate-when-he-nominated-her-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pick for Sweden ambassador didn\u2019t clear the Senate when he nominated her the last time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Donald Trump is trying again with Christine Jack Toretti \u2014 this time nominating her to serve as the next ambassador to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>During his last administration, Trump tapped Toretti, a businesswoman and GOP fundraiser, as his pick to become the ambassador to Malta. The Senate never confirmed her, returning her nomination in 2019 and again in 2020, with Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/11\/09\/state-staffing-980841\" target=\"_blank\">questioning the quality<\/a> of some of Trump\u2019s nominees. Toretti at the time was reported to have had a <a href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/sports\/tucson-doctor-gets-restraining-order-against-olson-s-ex-wife\/article_46e7afee-aad0-5770-a989-e7cac1523697.html\" target=\"_blank\">restraining order<\/a> filed against her for allegedly putting a bullet-riddled target sheet in the office of her ex-husband\u2019s doctor.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Thursday, Trump called Toretti an \u201cincredible businesswoman, philanthropist, public servant, and RNC Committeewoman for the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,\u201d touting her lengthy resume, including her role as chair of S&amp;T Bancorp and as the former director of the Pittsburgh Federal Reserve Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is trying again with Christine Jack Toretti \u2014 this time nominating her to serve as the next ambassador to Sweden. During his last administration, Trump tapped Toretti, a businesswoman and GOP fundraiser, as his pick to become the ambassador to Malta. The Senate never confirmed her, returning her nomination in 2019 and again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707","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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}