Meet the Washington lawyer being vetted by the White House to be Trump's nominee for US ambassador to Mexico — he doesn't have diplomatic experience, which isn't unheard of, but the US-Mexico relationship is a particularly complicated one buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Chris Landau had been considered for other posts under Trump, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh's old DC Circuit seat and US solicitor general. He's spent his career in private practice and has longstanding conservative ties buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Landau doesn't have any formal diplomatic experience, but it's a familiar world — his father George Landau was a well-known career US diplomat, having served as ambassador to several Latin American countries. Landau grew up living abroad and speaks Spanish buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
