President-elect Donald Trump has offered the role of US ambassador to the United Nations to Elise Stefanik.
The House Republican and top ally of the president accepted the UN gig after it was offered on Sunday, DailyMail.com confirmed.
‘I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,’ Trump told the New York Post.
Stefanik will fill the seat that was once held by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has had a complicated history with the president-elect after running against him in the GOP primary.
Haley did not appear on the campaign trail for him despite repeatedly claiming she was ‘on standby.’
Stefanik had appeared at Trump’s now infamous rally inside Madison Square Garden last month as the race for the White House intensified.
Stefanik is seen here speaking before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden
Trump is pictured here at an election night watch party on Wednesday, November 6
‘I am truly honored to earn President Trump’s nomination to serve in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,’ Stefanik, R-N.Y., told The Post.
In recent years Stefanik, who is the highest ranking Republican woman in the House, has been one of his closest allies.
Earlier this year she filed a misconduct complaint against the judge overseeing his hush-money trial claiming his selection ‘was not random at all’.
In recent years Stefanik, who is the highest ranking Republican woman in the House, has been one of his closest allies
Stefanik had called for an investigation into Judge Juan Merchan to ‘determine whether the required random selection process was in fact followed’.
She has alleged that Merchan, whom she claims is a Democratic Party donor, has repeatedly been assigned to criminal cases linked to Trump and his allies.
In a follow up letter in September, she said that ‘new information has come to light that merits a fresh look into Merchan’s conflict.’
The fresh complaint alleged that Merchan should recuse himself from the case as his daughter, Lauren Merchan, is the president of a company that Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has paid and thus stands to benefit from the trial.
She specifically highlights how new Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings indicate that Lauren Merchan’s company, Authentic Campaigns Inc., received $468 from Harris’s campaign for web hosting services.
Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in the historic criminal trial with Merchan expected to decide this week whether Trump’s conviction should be overturned in light of the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity.
Merchan also must decide whether to go ahead with sentencing Trump on November 26 as currently scheduled.
Donald Trump has announced that Susie Wiles will be his chief of staff in the White House
A favorable ruling by for Trump on the immunity question or a sentencing delay would pave the way for him to return to the White House largely unencumbered by that once appeared to threaten his ambitions to win back the White House.
It comes after Trump announced that Susie Wiles would be his chief of staff in the White House.
The ‘Ice Baby’ – as she has been nicknamed – will be the first female chief of staff in U.S. history.
The 67-year-old ran the campaign that propelled him to an historic election win over Democrat Kamala Harris on Tuesday night.
Wiles ran his race from behind the scenes and is one of the most feared and effective political operatives in the nation.
Haley had been a brutally honest critic of the former president, even after his MSG rally which she predicted was ‘gonna make women uncomfortable’
The key aide appeared alongside him as he declared victory over Kamala Harris with his family and staff last week in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump had previously said in a post to Truth Social that Haley and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would not be part of his second administration.
He added: ‘I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country.’
Haley had been a brutally honest critic of the former president, even after his MSG rally which she predicted was ‘gonna make women uncomfortable’.
She was the final woman standing against Trump in the primary election and revealed in late May that she would be voting for him.
