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The state department says Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, has withdrawn. The department released a statement on Saturday evening Washington time saying Nauert had withdrawn and another nominee would be announced “soon”. Nauert said she was grateful to Trump and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, for “the trust they have placed in me for considering me for the position of US ambassador”. Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) BREAKING: Heather Nauert Withdraws Name from consideration to be US Ambassador to UN. Trump called her “very talented, very smart, very quick” and said he thought she would be “respected by all.” In the wake of November elections that strengthened Republican control of the Senate, her confirmation appeared likely, if not easy. Yet Trump never put Nauert’s name forward with the Senate and no confirmation hearing was scheduled. With no policymaking or negotiating experience, and after 20 months as a spokeswoman for the state department, Nauert would have taken her seat on the UN security council alongside counterparts with decades of experience. During Nauert’s tenure at the state department, press briefings went from being daily events to being held once or twice weekly. Nauert was mostly a polished and unflappable defender of administration policy, smoothing over frequent rifts between Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and the White House. But her inexperience sometimes shone through: in June she cited the D-day landings as evidence of the longstanding relationship between Washington and Berlin.