President-elect Donald Trump appointed former Abraham Accords negotiator Adam Boehler as his Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
Boehler will hold the personal rank of Ambassador in the position. His appointment was announced in a post on Truth Social, alongside a flurry of other appointments.
“He has negotiated with some of the toughest people in the World, including the Taliban, but Adam knows that NO ONE is tougher than the United States of America, at least when President Trump is its Leader,” Trump said. “Adam will work tirelessly to bring our Great American Citizens HOME.”
Previously, the Senate unanimously confirmed Boehler as the first CEO of the United States Development Finance Corporation.
The announcement comes two days after Trump issued a stark warning to Hamas, which is still holding dozens of hostages captured in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity,” the president-elect wrote.
“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America,” he added. “RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
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His announcement, in turn, came days after Hamas released a propaganda video of a hostage, Israeli American dual citizen Edan Alexander, 20, urging Trump to change course from President Joe Biden.
“Please do not make the mistake that Biden has been doing,” Alexander says, reading words provided by his captors. “The weapons he has sent are not killing us, and the unlawful sieges are not starving us.”
