Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost needed an “off-ramp” so he wouldn’t be embarrassed in next year’s gubernatorial race and, according to NOTUS, he successfully lobbied the Trump Regime for an ambassadorship. They gave him Cyprus and Yost decided the eastern Mediterranean island nation was too small to matter, so Yost turned it down, much to the White House’s chagrin.

“For the White House to come through with an offer like this both shows their respect for him, and how much they value him, and then to turn that down is unbelievable,” a source said. Yost’s minions tell NOTUS the AG will continue his campaign to succeed term-limited Gov Mike DeWine, despite internal polling showing Yost trailing absolute douche tech bro Vivek Ramaswamy pretty badly.

What’s funny about this is that, yeah, Cyprus is small, but it’s also divided with a breakaway state, largely unrecognized internationally, populated by Muslim ethnic Turks while the main, established majority government is ethnically Greek. There’s actually a friggin DMZ between the two. Thus it’d actually be a hell of an opportunity for someone ambitious and diplomacy-minded to make a name for themselves in that world. If Yost had taken 10 fucking minutes to skim the Wikipedia article about Cyprus he might’ve recognized this and realized that being part of even the smallest incremental progress toward reunifying the island would be a big deal in diplomacy circles, opening all sorts of new doors for his career than a dead-end campaign for Ohio governor. What a dipshit.