If there is one department that’s under siege throughout this whole Trump impeachment fiasco, it’s the State Department. Its employees, especially the top staff, are being bombarded by their counterparts abroad about the nature of this Democratic attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election. Supposedly, the executive branch has treated these people very badly, and that has led to scores of officials defying the Trump administration to testify before House Democrats who had up until recently been producing this impeachment circus on the Hill in total secrecy. Luckily, Politico is there to flesh out the details, name those who are enemies of this administration, and all the while saying that their anonymous sources told them there is no anti-Trump deep state in existence. If there is or was, it failed, quoting a former official who left the department only to rail against it in an op-ed for The Washington Post. As Politico noted, with this Trump-Ukraine impeachment clown show now in full effect, made official by the House vote yesterday—the State Department is having its ‘revenge’:--
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