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Undated:  John D. Feeley (born 1961)[1] is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama from 2015 until his resignation took effect on March 9, 2018.

Feeley resigned on December 27, 2017, effective March 9, 2018, due to policy differences with the Trump administration.[10][11][12][13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Feeley

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January 12: U.S. Ambassador to Panama John Feeley, a career diplomat and former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, has resigned, saying he no longer felt able to serve President Donald Trump.

Feeley’s departure had been communicated to State Department officials on Dec. 27 and was not a response to Trump’s alleged use of the word “shithole” to describe Haiti and African countries at a meeting on Thursday, U.S. officials said.

Feeley, one of the department’s Latin America specialists and among its senior most officers, made clear that he had come to a place where he no longer felt able to serve under Trump.

“As a junior foreign service officer, I signed an oath to serve faithfully the president and his administration in an apolitical fashion, even when I might not agree with certain policies,” Feeley said, according to an excerpt of a resignation letter read to Reuters on Friday.

“My instructors made clear that if I believed I could not do that, I would be honor bound to resign. That time has come.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-diplomacy-panama-idUSKBN1F1227

January: Ex-US Ambassador to Panama: Trump ‘Warped and Betrayed’ U.S. Values
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-us-ambassador-to-panama-trump-warped-and-betrayed-us-values

March 9: Ex-US ambassador to Panama: Trump immigration policies are 'anti-American'

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama who resigned this week slammed President Trump’s immigration policies in a new op-ed, calling them “not only foolish and delusional but also anti-American.”

John Feeley, a career diplomat who had served as the ambassador to Panama since 2016, in the piece published Friday said he “never meant” for his private decision to resign to become a “public statement.”

“Sadly, it became one,” Feeley wrote in The Washington Post. “Leaking is not new in Washington. But leaking a sitting ambassador’s personal resignation letter to the president, as mine was, is something else. This was a painful indication that the current administration has little respect for those who have served the nation apolitically for decades.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/377578-ex-us-ambassador-to-panama-trump-immigration-policies-are-anti-american

May 21: Donald Trump Is ‘Like a Velociraptor: If You Don’t Show Him Deference He Kills You,’ Says Former Ambassador

Feeley said that in his first meeting with Trump, in June 2017, the president asked him: “So tell me—what do we get from Panama? What’s in it for us?”

The ambassador, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, then outlined the benefits of the U.S.’s relationship with Panama, including counter-narcotics work. Trump was then said to have responded by saying “who knew?” before moving on to extoll the virtues of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Panama City.

“How about the hotel?” Trump was reported to have said. “We still have the tallest building on the skyline down there?”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ambassador-panama-feeley-937046

May 28: The Diplomat Who Quit the Trump Administration

For John Feeley, the Ambassador to Panama, moral failings at home seemed to compound tactical failings abroad.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-diplomat-who-quit-the-trump-administration

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