Speculation about Hillary Clinton being considered as the American ambassador to the United Nations in the Biden team is "ridiculous", ex-US envoy to the UN Susan Rice tweeted earlier this week.
Rice, who also served as US national security adviser, described the rumours as "an insult" to Clinton, and something that the ex-US ambassador said should be stopped. Clinton has not commented on Rice's tweet yet.
This is ridiculous and an insult to @HillaryClinton. Stop. Please. https://t.co/i1J0IwE0ot
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) November 13, 2020
The remarks came a few days after The Washington Post cited an unnamed source as saying that the former Secretary of State could become the Biden administration's ambassador to the UN and that the candidacy of Bill Clinton's wife is already "being discussed".
This followed Hillary Clinton speaking on a podcast on Tuesday about Democratic nominee Joe Biden allegedly winning "the most important election of our lifetimes", adding that "flipping the [Republican-controlled] Senate is the next task at hand".
The comments followed the ex-Secretary of State tweeting late last week that Biden's projected win in the 3 November election "is a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America".
In a separate development on Tuesday, The Sunday Times reported that Biden may nominate former US President Barack Obama as the American ambassador to the UK "as a thank-you", a reference to Biden having been the former's VP from 2009 to 2017.
While the self-proclaimed president-elect is already setting up a transition team, the official results of the election have yet to be announced, with the Trump campaign filing legal challenges across the US to dispute the results of vote counting in the key swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
"There is tremendous evidence of widespread voter fraud in that there is irrefutable proof that our Republican poll watchers and observers were not allowed to be present in poll counting rooms. Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and others. Unconstitutional!", POTUS claimed in a tweet on Sunday.
As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, it was reported in 2015 that she used a private server instead of a government one to deal with all her correspondence when she served as Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013 under then-President Obama.
The controversy drew widespread attention during the 2016 presidential election, because Clinton was nominated by the Democratic Party to run against Donald Trump. In July 2016, former CIA director James Comey said that the results of the investigation into Clinton's e-mails did not provide grounds to prosecute her, but added that she had been "extremely careless".
