Trump Told U.S. Ambassador to Get U.K. Government Help Steering British Open to His Resort

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You’d like to think that the American ambassador, as a representative of his country, disregarded the president’s improper request for a personal favor.

Johnson had only been in the plum diplomatic posting a few months at the time and, according to the Times, felt pressure to try to fulfill Trump’s whim. Johnson, a billionaire in his own right as an heir to pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson and owner of the NFL’s New York Jets, took up the issue with the secretary of state for Scotland, which represents the nation in the cabinet of the British government.

The British government said in a statement that no official ask was made of it to help steer the tournament Trump’s way, but that appears to be an equivocation. Several people with knowledge the incident told the Times the topic was broached by the American ambassador. Also, deputy chief of mission Lewis Lukens, a career diplomat, raised the issue at the time in an email to officials at the State Department. Lukens, a former ambassador to Senegal, was forced out of his job several months later.

 

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