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Dems accuse Trump officials of seeking State Department purge
The Hill ^ | March 15, 2018 | Max Greenwood

Posted on 03/15/2018 2:33:18 PM PDT by Innovative

Two top House Democrats allege that high-level political appointees in the State Department and senior White House officials have worked with conservative activists to purge from the agency career officials deemed insufficiently loyal to President Trump.

A letter sent Thursday to White House chief of staff John Kelly and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan alleges that political appointees at the State Department have characterized career officials in "derogatory terms."

Among the descriptors used for certain career officials were "a leaker and a troublemaker" and a "turncoat," the letter from Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) reads, citing documents obtained from a whistleblower.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; statedepartment; trump; trumpstatedept
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The truth hurts.

Go, Trump, MAGA. Get rid of the trash.

1 posted on 03/15/2018 2:33:18 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Winning an election has its perks.


2 posted on 03/15/2018 2:34:38 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Innovative; vette6387; JLAGRAYFOX

No, it’s the American people who want a DC Swamp purge!! That fact was determined during the November election, ya think?


3 posted on 03/15/2018 2:35:27 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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“career officials deemed insufficiently loyal to President Trump. . . .”

Correction: Insufficiently loyal to our country.


4 posted on 03/15/2018 2:37:39 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Innovative

Wow, they say this like its a bad thing.


5 posted on 03/15/2018 2:38:38 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Innovative

FLUSH THE SH*T right OUT of the Snake Department!
its been far, far too long already

Please, DRAIN the damned Swamp today!


6 posted on 03/15/2018 2:39:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Innovative

Sounds like a grand idea.


7 posted on 03/15/2018 2:39:42 PM PDT by ully2
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To: Innovative

Purge the swamp, drain the swamp — either way MAGA!!!


8 posted on 03/15/2018 2:41:16 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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Trump must be getting close the leakers. The Democrats only whine when they caught or about to be caught.
9 posted on 03/15/2018 2:41:25 PM PDT by dhs12345
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Among the descriptors used for certain career officials were "a leaker and a troublemaker" and a "turncoat," the letter from Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) reads... Leakers, troublemakers, & turncoats should be fired!
10 posted on 03/15/2018 2:42:35 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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The correct answer is “You’re damn right we seek a State Department purge, and our greatest error in this administration is to have failed to insist on same from the day we took office. We have been struggling with endless leaks, many of which were felonious leaks of classified materials that are clearly never going to be prosecuted nor investigated. We have struggled with the likes of Strzok, Lisa Page and James Comey in the FBI and Clapper in the CIA clearly advancing an anti-Trump agenda and we have every reason to suspect that similarly situated operatives are active within the State Department as well. Like Evelyn Farkas, like Susan Rice, like Samantha Power”. Any questions?


11 posted on 03/15/2018 2:43:17 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Innovative

Met a woman at a Maryland Republican meeting who was coming out of the closet.

She was a retired State Dept. lawyer, Jewish who was in the processes of announcing to friends and family she has been a Repub. for decades!

She told me State was absolutely disgusting. If you didn’t whole-heartedly profess the progressive rant, you were shunned.


12 posted on 03/15/2018 2:43:47 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Innovative

So where is the problem of purging the corrupt government


13 posted on 03/15/2018 2:44:32 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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And way overdue!
14 posted on 03/15/2018 2:45:04 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: Innovative

In the words of Valerie Jarrett: We won................................


15 posted on 03/15/2018 2:45:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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And why can’t the boss fire his workers if he wants to? Happens all the time in private industry. So why not fire the government sloths left over from Obama who have been sabotaging Trump & the 63 million Americans who voted for him?


16 posted on 03/15/2018 2:46:08 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: lizma2
McCarthy was right about Communists in government, and many of them landed in the State Dept. The place needs to be fumigated.
17 posted on 03/15/2018 2:46:11 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: Innovative

well duh.


18 posted on 03/15/2018 2:46:28 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, once upon a time there was a POTUS who came in and fired all the US attorneys!


19 posted on 03/15/2018 2:47:25 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Innovative

For once, I hope the democrats wild accusations are 100% accurate.


20 posted on 03/15/2018 2:49:56 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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