President Donald Trump nominated conservative media watchdog founder Leo Brent Bozell III as his ambassador to South Africa, a country he had contentious relations with early in his second term.
Bozell is the founder of the conservative Media Research Center, a watchdog group that aims to expose liberal bias in the media. He was nominated as the CEO of the Agency for Global Media, but it was withdrawn on Monday, the same day the ambassador to South Africa nomination was sent to the Senate.
The nomination came as the Trump administration has taken aim at the South African government over its policies toward white citizens and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Trump signed an executive order last month stopping “aid or assistance to South Africa,” alleging a pattern of discrimination against the minority white Afrikaner population, including a 2024 law that enables “the…
