President Donald Trump’s political appointees inappropriately retaliated against a career civil servant at the State Department in part because of her ethnic background, her perceived political views, and the fact that she was in government during prior administrations, a federal watchdog says. In a
President Donald Trump’s political appointees inappropriately retaliated against a career civil servant at the State Department in part because of her ethnic background, her perceived political views, and the fact that she was in government during prior administrations, a federal watchdog says.
But it lands at a particularly sensitive moment: Trump faces an impeachment inquiry whose elements involve the mistreatment of career diplomats, in particular those dealing with Ukraine. On Wednesday, two senior State Department officials testified in the first public hearing of the House's impeachment inquiry about the"irregular" foreign policy channel to Kyiv led by the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
According to the executive summary, in two cases, the inspector general said he found"no evidence that impermissible factors influenced the personnel decisions." In the other two cases, the inspector general said the findings were inconclusive because he was unable to obtain the necessary information from key players.
Career government staffers are sworn to serve the public in a non-partisan manner, no matter which party controls the executive branch. But the Trump team took office suspicious of the career staffers, with some believing they comprised a “deep state” disloyal to Trump.
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