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The WH announced the Rizzuto nomination early last month (see Prominent Businessman Leandro Rizzuto Jr to be Ambassador to Barbados, But Wait – #ForgotSomething?). Now CNN’s @KFILE has a piece about the nominee’s um … colorful Twitter history. Senator Cruz’s wife Heidi is an architect of the North American Union? Whoa-ha-ha! Who knew about the NAU? We’d like a job there as long as we’re posted in Canada.
GOP Senator Ben Sasse’s spox released a statement saying the nominee “should feel free to put on his tinfoil hat and visit our office with evidence for his salacious conspiracy theories and cuckoo allegations.” Oh, wow! Is he just saying that, and then the Senator will later vote to confirm the nominee? As of this writing, the SFRC does not have a schedule for Mr. Rizzuto’s confirmation hearing. But we should be ready with the popcorn, anyway. There will be a hearing, unless he withdraw his name for consideration, which happens with more frequency these days by the way, but it’s not a bad thing, really. Or he doesn’t, and then there will be a cliffhanger on whether he gets the Barbados post or not. It’ll be a ratings bonanza.
This @SesSasse spokesman statement is really not mincing words. Worth a full read: pic.twitter.com/u7iP9XseJh
— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) February 6, 2018
New from me and @natemcdermott. Trump ambassador pick promoted fringe conspiracies on his Twitter, including claims "Heidi Cruz is an architect of the North American Union," Huma Abedin was a Muslim Brotherhood spy," and that Ted Cruz had numerous affairshttps://t.co/GyqNPhYMBT pic.twitter.com/prv285Z0Wf
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) February 5, 2018
President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Barbados and several other Caribbean countries spread fringe conspiracy theories and unfounded attacks about Trump's political opponents on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election https://t.co/BQhdmPBAnp pic.twitter.com/ctaC7915Qe
— CNN (@CNN) February 5, 2018
Among other thing Lee Rizzotto, ambassador nominee, retweetedhttps://t.co/GyqNPhYMBT pic.twitter.com/Jp3S6mD8wI
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) February 5, 2018
Curious if @SenTedCruz has seem this smear against his wife? Will Leandro Rizzuto Jr. ever see Barbados? @KFILE https://t.co/fpXpInIamb
— Lois Romano (@loisromano) February 6, 2018
After @KFILE and my story yesterday on a Trump nominee pushing conspiracy theories, Sen. Ben Sasse's spokesperson says he might not get confirmed, and he mocks him saying that he "should feel free to put on his tinfoil hat"https://t.co/vEytuBLf3y
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) February 6, 2018
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