A senior Democratic senator is urging President Donald Trump to withdraw his nominee for the U.S. ambassador to Germany over controversial remarks the nominee has made as a media commentator that have been deemed racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic.
In a letter to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, outlined what he called a “catalogue of disturbing statements” by retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor that should disqualify him from the ambassador post.
