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struggle4progress

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Sat Feb 23, 2019, 07:26 PM Feb 2019

Nominee for U.N. ambassador a big GOP donor

By DANIEL POLITI
FEB 23, 201911:46 AM

... The nomination of Craft, who is seen as a rising GOP star in Kentucky, was apparently being pushed hard by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But Trump .. has benefited from her generosity and that of her husband, Joseph W. Craft III, a billionaire Kentucky coal magnate. The pair are big donors to the Republican Party and gave handsomely to both Trump’s presidential campaign and his inaugural committee.

All in all, the couple donated more than $2 million to Trump’s campaign and inauguration ...

Craft has kept quite a low profile as the chief U.S. diplomat in Canada. She did make headlines in Canada due to her science-denying views that characterized climate change as a debate between two sides that have valid points ...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/kelly-knight-craft-trump-un-ambassador.html

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Craft and Kraft... BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #1
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