Trump White House Worked with Newt Gingrich on Political Purge at State Department, Lawmakers Say
Trump White House Worked with Newt Gingrich on Political Purge at State Department, Lawmakers Say
Trump 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 Trump’s 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/
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