Does Heather Nauert Have What It Takes?

Trump’s pick would be the least experienced U.N. ambassador ever

By Michael Hirsh

No one who has worked with Heather Nauert doubts that she’s a pretty good briefer, or that the former Fox & Friends host is a winning personality on camera. As U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday when he nominated her to replace outgoing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Nauert is “very talented, very smart, very quick.”

But longtime U.N. observers say Nauert will also be the least qualified person ever to hold the job and follow in the footsteps of notables such as Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Madeleine Albright, and Richard Holbrooke.

Critics say Nauert, who is currently the State Department’s spokesperson, is almost without policy experience in an administration now largely dominated by National Security Advisor John Bolton, a predecessor in the U.N. post who has more than three decades of hard-earned policy chops and is known for his overbearing manner. By his own admission, the hawkish and unilateralist Bolton has little use for the U.N. and has mainly worked to disassociate the United States from it.

Nauert, who for a time was also acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, has done a respectable job of representing Mike Pompeo’s State Department to the media by most accounts, despite a few “whoops” moments.

She didn’t add that this has included trying and executing its leaders.

According to a former senior U.S. official who was among a group of diplomats introduced to Nauert recently at a dinner in New York, she came across as a very capable “PR person” who on most questions “knew the top three points in a set of prepared talking points.”

“When people asked her a question she didn’t know, she said, ‘I don’t know. Let’s get back to you on that,’ which is what…

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