From day one a President Donald Trump has shown little need for U.S Diplomats….
Trump, isn’t interested in any foreign affairs policy that doesn’t have the word money in it ….
In the almost three years he’s been President he cut the State Department’s budget…
He has left jobs unfilled…
He ignore’s career civil servants advice and consul and ‘freelanced’ things , making a mess of American relations with other countries….
Pushing ‘America First’, which all Republican President’s trend to do he has pissed a lot of State Department people off…
So?
It is really NO surprise that since Robert Mueller wasn’t gonna do anything in the end?
The efforts of the House Democrats WOULD have the State Department people step up and tell what they have seen and heard on their watches…
Defying a White House that defied them…
It’s payback time….
(Trump & Co. are sure seek their revenge on these employee;’s and ex-employee’s)
There is no cover for a Trump White House that has run it’s own self serving operation’s it would appear …
They’ve been derided as a “Deep State,” slurred as “Obama holdovers,” threatened with draconian budget cuts and told that President Donald Trump doesn’t even need them.
Now, America’s diplomats are taking their revenge.
In recent days, current and former Foreign Service officers have defied Trump administration orders and trudged to Capitol Hill to testify before House committees investigating whether to impeach the president. Colleagues inside the State Department and their allies in the broader foreign policy community are quietly hailing them as heroes, with special praise for those testifying despite still being on the government payroll.
In their testimonies, the diplomats have described being sidelined on Ukraine policy as Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and other Trump political appointees — apparently at the president’s direction — pursued a “shadow” foreign policy that included withholding some $400 million in military aid to Kyiv. Their boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has attacked the House process as “ troubling” and defended the legitimacy of Giuliani’s efforts.
Overall, the diplomats’ testimony has bolstered allegations that Trump tried to improperly pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival. But some also used the platform to air long-held grievances over Trump and his aides’ treatment of the State Department’s career staffers, several of whom were demoted or sidelined following attacks by the conservative media.
The defiance has risks: that it will deepen the rift between Trump and the State Department while fueling more global confusion over U.S. foreign policy positions. Many of Trump’s top aides view Foggy Bottom as a den of Democratic intrigue — a long- and widely held suspicion on the right with roots in the Cold War.
For now, though, it feels pretty good to hit back.
“People are fed up,” said Laura Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador who remains in touch with officials still in the State Department. “There’s a deep well of resentment that’s just bubbled toward the top.”….
Note…
Donald Trump IS a President that has NEVER trusted his own Government employee’s at State, FBI or the intelligence community and has installed his own eyes and ears to cover his back at the Justice Department to further control things across the government.
A NYC Real Estate guy, with a small staff…
He has been unable deal with, or handle the job of managing a government of hundreds of thousands of employee’s, nor has sought to listen to their managers, who have had to try to keep things legal against his wishes and whims…
image….Michael McKinley resigned days ago as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo