Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator from Arizona, is President Joe Biden’s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
“Given the strategic importance of the United States’ relationship with our long-time NATO Ally, the Republic of Turkey, I am honored and humbled by the trust President Biden has placed in me with this ambassadorial nomination. This is a pivotal post at an important time for both of our countries,” Flake wrote Tuesday in a post on Medium.
A Biden administration official confirmed to NBC News that Biden plans to nominate Flake for the post.
Flake was a frequent critic and target of Donald Trump when he was in office, and endorsed Biden last year ahead of the Republican National Convention. At the time, he cited Trump’s insistence that the only way he would lose the election was if it was rigged as one of the reasons for his decision.
“What kind of president talks like that?” Flake said then. “What kind of American leader undermines confidence in the elections in his own country?”
In his Medium post Tuesday, he said Biden’s intent to nominate him “reaffirms the best tradition of American foreign policy and diplomacy: the credo that partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge. U.S. foreign policy can and should be bipartisan. That is my belief as well, and my commitment.”
Flake is the second Arizona Republican Biden has nominated to a prestigious post. Biden nominated Cindy McCain, the widow of Arizona Sen. John McCain, to be the U.S. representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Like Flake, Cindy McCain crossed party lines to endorse Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
How fitting, a Turkey assigned to Turkey! Crazy joe does have a sense of humor!
Hey, what’s one more flake in a cereal box filled with flakes.
Insignificant.
Punchable face.
I predict his dead body ends up being dragged through the streets by a bunch of people yelling aloha snackbar.
It’s a big Uniparty, and I ain’t in it. What’s Bob Corker’s consolation prize? He made Barky’s Iran sellout possible. That’s got to be worth a post in some shit-hole country.
Turkey is a Powder Keg….Old Jeff might be the next Chris Stevens…
Flake: “…Partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge…” You freakin’ endorsed Biden in the election you swamp rat.
Flake gives dandruff a bad name.
The turks look forward to giving him what they gave Lawrence of Arabia.
Flake would be smart to pack KY Jelly.
And Nevada senator Dina Titus, who is a Democrat and is Greek, gets ignored. HAHAHAHA!
What kind of president talks like that?” Flake said then.
A real manly man of a president who knows who he’s up against Jeff!