Friday, December 13, 2024

Michael Anton Policy Planning Director State Dept 12-13-24

Michael Anton (born 1969) is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was a senior national security official in the first Trump administration. 

Anton is of Italian and Lebanese descent. He grew up in Loomis, California, an exurb of Sacramento. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and earned advanced degrees from St. John's College and the Claremont Graduate University.

Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election", an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Anton was Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council under Trump. He is a former speechwriter for Rupert MurdochRudy Giuliani, and Condoleezza Rice, and worked as director of communications at the investment bank Citigroup and as managing director of investing firm BlackRock

Anton is of Italian and Lebanese descent. He grew up in Loomis, California, an exurb of Sacramento. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and earned advanced degrees from St. John's College and the Claremont Graduate University.

Anton joined the U.S. National Security Council as Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications in February 2017. He resigned on April 8, 2018, the evening before John R. Bolton became Trump's National Security Advisor.

Anton joined Hillsdale College's Kirby Center Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C., after leaving the Trump administration.

In December 2020, Trump appointed Anton to a four-year term on the National Board for Education Sciences, which advises the Department of Education on scientific research and investments.

In December 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Michael Anton to serve as the Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department.

“Michael has served me loyally and effectively at the National Security Council in my First Term,” Trump posted. “He has an extensive background in Government, the private sector, and academia.”

Anton served as a senior national security official in Trump’s first administration and was later appointed to the National Board for Education Sciences.

Trump noted that Anton served the last eight years “explaining what an America First foreign policy truly means.”Anton served as a senior national security official in Trump’s first administration and was later appointed to the National Board for Education Sciences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Anton

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