Trump's nominee for Hostage Affairs envoy faces scrutiny on controversial Russia plan

• President Trump is tapping his charismatic, straight-talking former lawyer, who has helped free hundreds of political prisoners from Belarus, to serve as the U.
• official charged with bringing home unjustly detained Americans abroad.
• John Coale, who serves as special envoy to Belarus, has detailed “vodka infused” negotiations with that country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to...