Joe Biden intends to nominate Elliott Abrams, a former Trump appointee on Venezuela and Iran who was famously convicted for lying to Congress over the Iran-Contra affair, to the bipartisan US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
The announcement came wrapped in a list of eight Republican picks for bipartisan boards and commissions
“It’s definitely a way to reach out to neoconservatives, and to throw them a bone,” said the historian and…