Donald Trump has announced Matthew Whitaker as his nominee to become the next United States ambassador to NATO – a role likely to prove crucial within his incoming administration given the heightened tensions surrounding the war in Ukraine.
The lawyer is a former college football player and George W Bush-era US attorney for the southern district of Iowa who went on to serve as acting attorney general in Trump’s first administration in late 2018 and early 2019 following the ousting of Jeff Sessions.
