Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee denied over the weekend media reports that he was U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's lead candidate to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The British Daily Mail, along with other news outlets, had quoted a source from Trump's transition team who confirmed that Huckabee had been named the next U.S. ambassador to Israel and would be tasked with overseeing the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move Trump has promised to carry out numerous times during his presidential campaign. "Media buzz that I was named Amb [ambassador] to Israel is NOT true. Was never discussed with PE [President-elect] Trump; slot probably not picked until State Dept [Department] in place," Huckabee wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday. Huckabee further said the reports on this issue are baseless, and in an interview to Fox News on Friday he insisted that during his meeting with Trump the subject never even came up. "This is completely made up. ... Those who know don't talk; those who talk don't know," he noted, alluding to the false media reports.
