{"id":222093,"date":"2019-07-08T21:49:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222093"},"modified":"2025-01-19T20:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:08:06","slug":"trump-will-no-longer-deal-with-uk-envoy-who-panned-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/08\/trump-will-no-longer-deal-with-uk-envoy-who-panned-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump will &#8216;no longer deal&#8217; with UK envoy who panned him"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him. The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1148298497189392384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 President Donald Trump threatened Monday to cut off contact with Britain&#8217;s ambassador to the United States after leaked diplomatic cables revealed the envoy called the Trump administration \u201cdysfunctional\u201d and \u201cinept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. leader tweeted about Ambassador Kim Darroch a day after a British newspaper published the diplomat&#8217;s unflattering assessments of the current administration in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the US. We will no longer deal with him,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The documents \u2014 published in the Mail on Sunday newspaper \u2014 have created awkwardness between two countries that are longtime allies. British officials said they were hunting for the culprit behind the leak, which was both an embarrassment to Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s government and a major breach of diplomatic security.<\/p>\n<p>Darroch has served as Britain&#8217;s envoy to Washington since 2016, and the cables cover a period from 2017 to recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In the leaked documents he called the Trump administration&#8217;s policy toward Iran \u201cincoherent,\u201d said the president might be indebted to \u201cdodgy Russians\u201d and raised doubts about whether the White House \u201cwill ever look competent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,\u201d one missive said.<\/p>\n<p>The documents were intended for senior U.K. ministers and civil servants. Government officials think the mole will be found among British politicians or officials, not foreign governments or hackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve seen nothing to suggest hostile state actors were involved,\u201d said May&#8217;s spokesman, James Slack.<\/p>\n<p>Some U.K. diplomatic cables go to more than 100 recipients, though more sensitive messages have a smaller distribution list.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry is being led by civil servants in the Cabinet Office, and Slack said police would only be called in \u201cif evidence of criminality is found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Conservative U.K. lawmaker Tom Tugendhat, who chairs Parliament&#8217;s foreign affairs committee, said he had written to the chief of London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police asking for a criminal investigation into the leak.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible the leaker could be charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act, which bars public servants from making \u201cdamaging\u201d disclosures of classified material. Breaching the act carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison, though prosecutions are rare.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there would be \u201cvery serious consequences\u201d if the culprit was caught.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ability to communicate frankly was \u201cfundamental\u201d to diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the trans-Atlantic strain, Trump on Monday renewed his criticism of the outgoing prime minister&#8217;s handling of Britain&#8217;s stalled departure from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been very critical about the way the U.K. and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cWhat a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May is set to step down later this month, replaced either by Hunt or by his predecessor as foreign secretary, former London mayor Boris Johnson. Trump has previously praised both men.<\/p>\n<p>Slack said May had \u201cfull faith\u201d in Darroch, a long-serving diplomat, though didn&#8217;t agree with the ambassador&#8217;s characterization of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>He said ambassadors were hired to provide \u201chonest, unvarnished assessments\u201d of politics in the countries where they served, which didn&#8217;t necessarily reflect the views of the British government.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vermox online <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/vermox.html\">https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/vermox.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But Trump&#8217;s tweets increased the pressure on Britain&#8217;s government over Darroch, who also has been accused by some Brexit-backing U.K. politicians of having a lack of enthusiasm for Britain&#8217;s departure from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist who reported the leak, Isabel Oakeshott, is a strong supporter of Brexit and an ally of Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who also is Britain&#8217;s leading champion of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in 2016 that Farage would \u201cdo a great job\u201d as an ambassador to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Farage brushed off that idea Monday, saying \u201cI&#8217;m not a diplomat, and I think that&#8217;s quite an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Farage said Darroch&#8217;s comments were \u201cpretty irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robin Renwick, who served as Britain&#8217;s ambassador to Washington in the 1990s, said Darroch had done nothing wrong but the leaked cables had made his position \u201cuntenable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will of course be a decent interval. He will then have to be moved on,\u201d Renwick told the BBC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis black online <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cialis-black.html\">https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cialis-black.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>International Trade Secretary Liam Fox called the leak \u201cmalicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is unconscionable that any professional person in either politics of the civil service can behave in this way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, who was meeting Trump&#8217;s daughter Ivanka in Washington on Monday, told the BBC he would apologize for the fact that standards of \u201ceither our civil service or elements of our political class\u201d had \u201clapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him. The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":200486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-jill-lawless","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285973,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222093\/revisions\/285973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}