Under Trump, More Big Donors Are Named Ambassadors — And Controversies Have Followed

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Under Trump, More Big Donors Are Named Ambassadors — And Controversies Have Followed
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President Trump has sent more political appointees abroad as ambassadors than previous administrations — ambassadors 'who don't seem to be temperamentally or intellectually suited for the work,' says a former diplomat.

, issued last week, calls for further investigation into the ambassador's management of the London embassy. Its first recommendation was for further examination of Johnson's alleged remarks — but the State Department responded that it is unnecessary because"the Ambassador has viewed the Office of Civil Rights video on workplace harassment and has instructed all section and agency heads to do the same.

"The ambassador came to me the morning after a visit to Washington where he had met the president. And he said, 'The president would like me to push the British government to host the British Open at his golf course in Turnberry,'" Lukens tells NPR. Now Douglas Macgregor, a retired U.S. Army colonel and Trump's nominee for ambassador to Germany, is facing opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, according to a senior congressional aide who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to speak to journalists on the record.

In South Africa, Ambassador Lana Marks, a handbag designer and a member at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, wanted to make her son a sort of chief of staff, Lukens says. After her deputy warned there were nepotism rules against it, she forced him out, Lukens says.

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