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Nominated, two years ago, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Kingdom of Morocco, American businessman David T. Fischer has finally seen his nomination confirmed.
On Thursday, 19 December, Fischer was confirmed by the US Senate through voice vote, as announced by the US Congress official website. His nomination was considered by the Senate after it was placed on the Senate executive calendar on November 20.
This confirmation puts an end to a long waiting period that prevented the Suburban Collection Chairman and CEO from taking office in Rabat. Indeed, Fischer’s nomination as the US ambassador to Morocco was marked by an unusual delay. Before his nomination was returned to the US President in January, the future diplomat has seen his file blocked for years.
An unusual delay
In July, Fischer ranked second in a list made by the Washington Examiner, featuring massive delays in appointing ambassadors.
At the time, Doug Manchester, nominee to become the envoy to the Bahamas, topped the list for waiting more than 700 days for his nomination to get confirmed. Both Fischer and Manchester were donors to Donald Trump's election campaign in 2016.
By November 2019, Fischer was the only American ambassador to a Maghreb country that has not been able to take office.
In Algeria, John P. Desrocher has fully assumed office on 5 September 2017. He is one of the first diplomats appointed by the Trump administration. The same thing goes for Mauritania. Michael Dodman has joined the American diplomatic mission in Nouakchott in January 2018 while in Tunisia; Donald Armin Blome took office in February 2019.
Even Libya, a country deemed unstable and where Ambassador John Christopher Stevens was killed in 2012 during an armed attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, has an American ambassador. Richard Norland, appointed in April 2019 by President Trump, arrived in Tripoli in June.
For the record, Donald Trump first appointed David Fischer on November 21, 2017, nine months after former Ambassador to Morocco Dwight Bush left office.
It is worth mentioning that Fischer is a known Michigan philanthropist who supported Republican Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign in 2012, wrote Detroit News. He did the same with President Donald Trump, donating $250,000 toward his inauguration.
