President-elect Donald Trump announced his ambassadorial picks for five nations on Truth Social. Businessman Lou Rinaldi heads to Uruguay, former ambassador George Edward Glass to Japan, Broadway producer Stacey Feinberg to Luxembourg, real estate president Arthur Graham Fisher to Austria, and former CIA officer Leah Francis Campos to the Dominican Republic.
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