Trump's UK ambassador fired a top diplomat for praising Obama during a speech about US-Britain relations

• UK ambassador Woody Johnson fired a senior diplomat for praising ex-president Barack Obama in a talk delivered to students, reported GQ magazine.
• Diplomat Lewis Lukens in a talk to students had praised Obama's handling of the sensitive topic of LGBT rights in talks with Senegal's president in 2013. 
• The report comes amid mounting concern over the politicization of the State Department under Trump.
• Several diplomats and State Department officials testified about pursuing the president's partisan political objectives in Ukraine, or being fired for not doing so, as part of the House impeachment probe. 
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Woody Johnson, the ambassador to the UK appointed by President Donald Trump, sacked a senior diplomat for recounting an anecdote involving President Barack Obama, reported GQ magazine. 

According to the report, Lewis Lukens, a Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy in London, said he was fired by Johnson in 2018 seven months before being scheduled to begin a new posting. 

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