Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOrlando attorney and major political donor Dan Newlin will not be serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and will continue his law practice and civic involvement in Central Florida.President Donald Trump, who first nominated Newlin for the post in December 2024, has now selected former Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Nate Morris for the job, which must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.Newlin told WESH 2 News Wednesday morning, \u201cIt is truly an honor to have been nominated as the United States Ambassador to Colombia. My friendship with President Donald Trump is unwavering, and I have had the privilege of visiting the White House ten times. Recently, I returned from a Senate delegation trip to Central America, where I collaborated with security forces to address critical issues.\u201dHe went on to say, \u201cIn order to effectively serve as the United States Ambassador, one must fully invest in the role and its responsibilities. My roots are deeply embedded in Central Florida, where my family and my law firm are based. My daughter is a proud Floridian, and I have dedicated 25 years to serving this community as a lawyer and lead counselor. The thought of selling my entire law firm to accept the ambassadorship was not a decision I could make lightly. Therefore, I have chosen to continue my service in other capacities, focusing on humanitarian efforts and staying actively engaged in my community. I remain committed to making a positive impact, both locally and internationally.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Orlando attorney and major political donor Dan Newlin will not be serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and will continue his law practice and civic involvement in Central Florida.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump, who first nominated Newlin for the post in December 2024, has now selected former Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Nate Morris for the job, which must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
Newlin told WESH 2 News Wednesday morning, \u201cIt is truly an honor to have been nominated as the United States Ambassador to Colombia. My friendship with President Donald Trump is unwavering, and I have had the privilege of visiting the White House ten times. Recently, I returned from a Senate delegation trip to Central America, where I collaborated with security forces to address critical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to say, \u201cIn order to effectively serve as the United States Ambassador, one must fully invest in the role and its responsibilities. My roots are deeply embedded in Central Florida, where my family and my law firm are based. My daughter is a proud Floridian, and I have dedicated 25 years to serving this community as a lawyer and lead counselor. The thought of selling my entire law firm to accept the ambassadorship was not a decision I could make lightly. Therefore, I have chosen to continue my service in other capacities, focusing on humanitarian efforts and staying actively engaged in my community. I remain committed to making a positive impact, both locally and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newlin withdraws nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Colombia Updated: 6:56 PM EDT Jun 3, 2026 Editorial Standards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,124190,4528,502,15992,9702,124189,67284,13500,139,141,140,6688,124187,124188,918,9102],"class_list":["post-296945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-civic-involvement","tag-colombia","tag-community","tag-law-firm","tag-lawyer","tag-lead-counselor","tag-newlin","tag-nomination","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-u-s-ambassador","tag-united-states-ambassador","tag-wesh","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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