ANTI-GLOBALIST TED MALLOCH, TRUMP’S AMBASSADOR TO THE EUROPEAN UNION IS LIKE U.K.’S NIGEL FARAGE

 Ted Malloch (shown), President Donald Trump’s proposed ambassador to the 

European Union, made it clear on Sunday
 that the administration’s goal is to destroy the European Union. During
 an interview on BBC on Sunday, Malloch warned that the EU is in for a 
rude awakening: Whether the EU powers-that-be like it or not, Trump will
 only deal with countries on a nation-by-nation basis. That would 
effectively end the supposed underlying reason for the EU.

Malloch said, “Trump won’t cow down to the powers that be. He’ll
speak his mind even if it gets him in trouble or held in disregard for
others. It used to be called honesty but in the age of baby talk and
political correctness, and mostly bullshit, it’s now regarded as
dishonesty.”

EU leaders and media supporters have seen this coming since November.
Patrick Wintour, the diplomatic editor for the liberal British paper The Guardian, spelled it out last Friday:

Previous pronouncements from Malloch have confirmed that intent. In January Malloch told BBC News,
“I had a previous career in a diplomatic post where I helped bring down
the Soviet Union. So maybe there’s another union that needs a little
taming.” Malloch was a vocal supporter of Brexit, and has predicted that
the euro would collapse. He expressed his hope that all members of the
European Union would hold similar referendums.

In January Malloch, in an interview on BBC One’s This Week,
said that Donald Trump doesn’t like the idea of EU’s “integration”:
“[He] doesn’t like an organization that is supranational, that is
unelected, where the bureaucrats run amok, and is not frankly a proper
democracy.”

Malloch can be best described as the insiders’ “maverick,” supporting
various efforts but not buying into the ideology. He has served — he
calls himself a Sherpa — on the executive board of the World Economic
Forum, which hosts the Davos meeting of elites in Switzerland every
year. He has held an ambassadorial position in the UN. He headed up the
consulting division of Wharton-Chase Econometrics. He worked at the
international banking firm Salomon Brothers. He served in senior policy
positions with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as well
as in the U.S. State Department. He is a research professor at Yale.

He’s even expressed support for the EU in the past, but usually with a
qualifying disclaimer: The EU is a “very important arrangement that was
largely brought about by American contributions.… For some long decades
it’s been absolutely critical to the trans-Atlantic alliance and to
US-Europe relations.” But he added, “I do believe it has more and more
become a supranational organization with political ambitions that
probably don’t fit with all of its member states’ ambitions.”

He has spoken critically of some of the EU’s top people, including
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker, said
Malloch, “was a very adequate mayor, I think, of some city in
Luxembourg, and maybe he should go back and do that again.”

This has not surprisingly generated genuine concern among those top
people. The liberal leader of the European Parliament, Guy Verofstadt,
and the head of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, sent a
letter to Juncker last week demanding that the EU not grant
“credentials” to Malloch if Trump does in fact name him as his
ambassador to the organization. The letter cited Malloch’s “outrageous
malevolence against the values that define this European Union. We are
strongly convinced that people seeing as their mission to disrupt or
dissolve the European Union should not be accredited as official
representatives to the EU.”

Nervousness bordering on panic has forced the New York Times to weigh in against Trump as Malloch’s potential employer. Steven Erlanger of the Times
launched a broadside against the president: “Mr. Trump has expressed
disdain for other multilateral institutions such as the European Union,
His praise has been reserved for populists and strongmen, like Nigel
Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, President
Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and, of course, President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia.” Erlanger added:

Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, added:

By negotiating with the EU’s member states individually —
nation-by-nation — Trump and his ambassador-to-be, Ted Malloch, hope to
cut the legs out from under the primary foundational assumption that has
falsely and fraudulently supported the EU’s raison d’être:
that the union could obtain for them better economic performance than
individually. It would end the real reason for the EU: an economic union
leading inevitably to a political one as a step toward a One World
Government.