Day: October 16, 2024

In early 2022 Biden dispatched Amy Gutmann as his ambassador to Germany. Seeking to draw a sharp contrast between herself and her predecessor, Ric Grenell, Donald Trump’s outspoken envoy, Gutmann never missed an opportunity to praise her hosts. Gutmann, whose Jewish father was forced to flee the Nazis, regularly lauded the Germans for their public reckoning with their World War II history, a …