Trump to nominate Washington lawyer Christopher Landau ambassador to Mexico: White House

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Source: Reuters

POLITICS MARCH 19, 2019 / 12:48 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Trump to nominate Washington lawyer ambassador to Mexico: White House

Rich McKay
2 MIN READ

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump will nominate a Washington attorney, Christopher Landau, to be the next United States Ambassador to Mexico, the White House Press Office said on Monday.

The nomination comes at a time of strained relations between the neighbors amid trade disputes, Trump’s complaints about undocumented immigrants crossing the border, and his efforts to build an extended border wall.

Roberta Jacobson, the previous U.S. ambassador, stepped down in May, joining a list of senior U.S. State Department officials to resign during Trump’s presidency.

Landau, now a partner at the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, and then for Justice Clarence Thomas, both considered court conservatives.

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1. Sounds like a right-wing lawfare type, like the kind Cheeto installed in Argentina

In that particular case, Trump's ambassador, Ed Prado, is in hot water right now thanks to a clumsy extortionist with a very big mouth.

The extortionist was recently caught shaking local businessmen down for hundreds of thousands each (as well as false testimony against Macri regime opponents).

And when his home and offices were raided - sure enough - they found reams of paperwork and colossal amounts of data tying him to both Macri and the U.S. Embassy.

Prado, of course, denied knowing him; but, poor guy, he made Cheeto's Russia-related denials sound like the Gospel truth.