Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman strongly affirmed his belief that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Huntsman, a Republican who served as ambassador to Singapore under President George H.W. Bush and ambassador to China under President Obama, is President Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia.
“There is no question -- underline no question -- that the Russia government interfered with the U.S. election last year and Moscow continues to meddle in processes of our friends and allies,” Huntsman said in the opening statement of his confirmation hearing. President Trump repeatedly refuses to accept these findings of the intelligence community.
Huntsman is not a controversial choice and has won bipartisan support and unanimous confirmation before. He should be confirmed again sometime this fall.
Politico Magazine has a closer look at what Huntsman’s upcoming job may entail.