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Trump White House Worked with Newt Gingrich on Political Purge at State Department, Lawmakers SayTrump officials called civil servants turncoat and Obama/Clinton loyalists.
DAN FRIEDMANMAR. 15, 2018 2:26 PM
White House and State Department officials conspired with prominent conservatives, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to purge the State Department of staffers they viewed as insufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump, two top House Democrats allege in a letter released Thursday.
The letter states that an unidentified whistleblower shared documents with Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees showing that a group of White House officials pressed political appointees at the State Department to oust career civil service employees they described with terms like Turncoat, leaker and a troublemaker, and Obama/Clinton loyalists not at all supportive of President Trumps foreign policy agenda.
As described in the letter, those actions would likely violate federal laws protecting federal civil servants from undue political influence.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/trump-white-house-worked-with-newt-gingrich-on-political-purge-at-state-department-lawmakers-say/
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)with the laws of the USA!!!!
Who will stop this madman and his criminal party?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)It's funny because he's had such a hard-on for exposing "Neo-McCarthyism" on the left and here we have a good, old-fashioned Red Scare ideological purge...
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)This sucks so bad!
How have we descended so quickly into third world status?
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)He's always been quite the authoritarian.
I was thinking to myself as I looked at the OP -- His imprint on the United States politics and governance has been nothing but terrible for us. I wonder if there's a single good thing he ever did??
Blue_Tires
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And they sure as hell aren't going to.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Republicans won't solve this problem, but democrats have a history of solving the problem.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)So I'm beginning to believe this totally legal and normal.