Trump's UN pick under fire for spending 300 days away from current post
Source: The Guardian
The Trump administration’s nominee to be the next US envoy to the United Nations has come under congressional scrutiny for absenteeism after spending more than half her time as ambassador to Canada away from her post.
Kelly Craft was asked why she spent more than 300 days outside Canada since she took the position in Ottawa in October 2017. In one two-month period between March and May in 2018, Craft was absent from her post 45 out of 54 days.
An investigation by Politico showed that a private jet registered to Craft’s husband, a US coal magnate, and used by the ambassador, made 128 flights between the US and Canada during a 15-month span of her tenure in Ottawa.
Seventy of those trip started or ended in Lexington, Kentucky, Craft’s home state. Some of those visits coincided with events there, including the Kentucky Derby, and her interview at a basketball stadium named after her husband.
... there were discrepancies in her accounts and some of her social media posts suggested she was away from her post at times not officially recorded.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/trump-un-pick-kelly-craft-ambassador-canada
Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 19 Jun 2019 20.48 EDT
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Every fucking single person within two miles of this “administration” is a craven goddamn irresponsible pig.
It’s just 
SO BAD
makes of foreign affairs generally, having his appointee absent from any post dealing with foreign affairs could almost be seen as a qualification. 
Where on earth do they find these specimens? They are truly bottom-of-the-barrel! 
(giggle), (blush), "Because I can."..
