Trump’s Afghanistan Ambassador Nominee: Government’s Role Is to Protect Americans’ Interests

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Jan Jekielek
Jan Jekielek
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Will Ruger, President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Afghanistan, praised Trump’s America First foreign policy and said that the U.S. government’s primary role is to protect the American people and their interests.

“And I think what we need to do is really focus on being square with the American people about what we need to do in the world, and how America’s role, the United States’s role as a government is to protect their interests,” Ruger told Jan Jekielek, the host of The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program.