This isn’t why she withdrew, as far as I know, but the Huffington Post adds this: “She was also linked to blogger Robert Spencer, a prominent anti-Muslim activist who is banned from entering the UK.”
My “link” to Heather Nauert consists solely of being part of a panel she interviewed on Fox News over a decade ago, but the key point here is that the Huffington Post thinks this tenuous “link” will make Nauert look bad. Seventeen years after 9/11, the establishment media thinks it’s a great stigma to oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. The Huffington Post repeats the claim that this makes one “anti-Muslim,” as if opposing the Nazis made one “anti-German.”
Note also the mention of my being banned from the UK. This is another common tactic of Leftist propagandists: target someone for defamation, and if the defamation campaign succeeds, use that success as evidence that there really is something wrong with the target. Their defamation builds upon itself.
“Heather Nauert Withdraws From UN Ambassador Consideration In Wake Of Reported Nanny Issue,” by Mary Papenfuss, Huffington Post, February 16, 2019:
Former Fox News host and State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew Saturday from consideration as UN ambassador in the wake of information that she had employed an immigrant nanny who wasn’t legally allowed to work in the U.S., sources told Bloomberg.
Nauert’s statement on her decision concerning the UN post made no mention of the nanny issue. She reportedly employed the nanny at some period in the past. But such a situation would have been particularly troublesome for President Donald Trump after he just declared a national emergency over immigration across the southern border on Friday.
The nanny news would have emerged after the disturbing firings last month of a dozen undocumented immigrants who had worked for years at the Trump National Golf Club in New York’s Westchester County.
“I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary [Mike] Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of US Ambassador to the United Nation,” Nauert said in a statement Saturday issued by the State Department. “However, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration.”
Nauert was a controversial pick for the UN job because of her inexperience and troubling comments about Muslims. She mocked Muslims in a 2016 tweet that linked to a New York Times story about Muslims’ concerns over then-presidential candidate Trump. “They should meet ISIS,” she wrote sarcastically. She was also linked to blogger Robert Spencer, a prominent anti-Muslim activist who is banned from entering the UK….