The nomination of Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib to be President Donald Trump's ambassador to Kuwait is on some seriously shaky ground.

At a confirmation hearing on Ghalib's nomination on Thursday, Oct. 23rd before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so senators from parties repeatedly peppered him with questions about actions they said included his liking a social media post comparing Jewish people to monkeys, his comments calling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a "martyr" and his apparently declining to publicly denounce a city appointee's comment that the Holocaust was "God's advance punishment" for Israel's actions in Gaza following the attacks by Hamas of Oct. 7, 2023.

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