What to know about Matthew Whitaker, Trump’s pick to be America’s ambassador to NATO

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO — set to make him the nation’s representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing.

Whitaker has a legal and criminal justice background, rather than one focused on foreign policy and national security, yet is poised to take over an important position for U.S. global affairs.

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