Ambassador to Ukraine who resigned under Trump may run for Congress

Brink connected resignation

Ex-Ambassador Bridget Brink says determination to resign "wasn't a hard, a hasty, rash decision" 05:46

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink is considering a tally for Congress successful her location authorities of Michigan, CBS News has learned.

Brink, who served for 28 years arsenic a diplomat, is mulling a bid successful Michigan's 7th legislature district, which is presently represented by Republican Tom Barrett. The Lansing-area territory is rated by the Cook Political Report arsenic a tossup, and was represented by Democrat Elissa Slotkin until earlier this year, erstwhile she moved to the Senate. 

In a connection archetypal fixed to the Detroit News, Brink said, "I've dedicated my beingness to nationalist work — moving nether 5 Presidents, some Democratic and Republican, and americium exploring my options and the champion mode to proceed to service my state and my large location authorities of Michigan."

Brink resigned her station arsenic envoy to Ukraine successful April. In an op-ed past week successful the Detroit Free Press, she said argumentation differences with the Trump medication prompted her to measurement down. President Trump has pressed Ukraine and Russia to onslaught a bid deal, sometimes lashing retired astatine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky successful the process.

On CBS News' "Face the Nation" Sunday, she told moderator Margaret Brennan, "I resigned from Ukraine and besides from the Foreign Service, due to the fact that the argumentation since the opening of the medication was to enactment unit connected the unfortunate Ukraine, alternatively than connected the aggressor, Russia. I afloat hold that the warfare needs to end, but I judge that bid astatine immoderate terms is not bid astatine all. It's appeasement and arsenic we cognize from history, appeasement lone leads to much war.

A vocation diplomat, Brink was confirmed by the Senate arsenic ambassador to Kyiv soon aft Russia launched its full-scale penetration successful 2022, and stayed connected during the aboriginal months of the Trump administration.

In April, CBS reported that Brink intended to resign her station arsenic ambassador owed to an antithetic premix of idiosyncratic and argumentation concerns, including USAID layoffs. Brink had been serving successful a warfare portion acold from her household since Kyiv is designated arsenic an unaccompanied post, wherever officers service without bringing their families with them.