WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of senior US diplomats are resigning their posts during President Donald Trump’s first week on the job, creating more high-level openings that the new president must fill.
State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, a career foreign service officer, planned to retire effective Friday, the State Department said. He was joined by two assistant secretaries, Joyce Barr and Michele Bond, who both resigned Wednesday. Gentry Smith, who directs the Office of Foreign Missions, was also departing.
The four join a growing list of long-serving diplomats declining to stay on into the Trump administration. That list includes Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Gregory Starr, the assistant secretary for diplomatic security. Starr retired on Inauguration Day.
Although none of the officials has linked his or her departure explicitly to Trump, many diplomats have privately expressed concern about serving in his administration, given the unorthodox positions he’s taken on many foreign policy issues.
Trump has yet to fill many top diplomatic jobs, including the deputy secretary roles. His nominee to be secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate next week.
I’m sure these diplomats think this statement is supposed to make people regret that Trump was elected. This makes me even happier. This is beautiful news.
ht/ the big owe
Here’s some of Victoria Nuland’s Greatest Hits-
The State Dept is full of anti-American big government open borders communists. The place needs a serious overhaul, disinfection, and major, major downsizing. The more that resign, the better for the nation.
Ermagrd, that whole thing about Patrick Kennedy as the vaccine czar was just fake news, then? I can’t keep up.
Trump has invented the first self draining swamp.
He should file for a patent for that.
The terminator has arrived and he hasn’t even started spraying yet and the cockroaches are leaving. Beautiful
Getting out before what they did gets out.
I wish I could remember who commented last week in similar circumstances, “Don’t forget to let the doorknob fsck you in the ass on your way out the door!”
Patrick Kennedy and the others were part of the problem–and now there’s less swamp to drain; not much, but every little bit helps.
Patrick Kennedy’s move to protect Hillary last year:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fbi-clinton-idUSKBN12H1QA
He should be promptly arrested.
Where’s my Easy Button!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msa5ua7kZmQ
AW gee, I’m sure gonna miss em.
I also miss the edit button.
Well…bye.
I’m sure they fully expected to be canned, and are just trying to seem relevant before the hammer drops.
So, who was the asshole said self-deportation wouldn’t be effective?
State Department? Just merge it with the DOD.
I don’t know who this is supposed to make unhappy, but it sure isn’t making me unhappy. GTFO losers!
Bye now! Buh bye! Bye! Bye now! Bye bye! Bye! Bye now! Say hi to John Effin Kerry for me! Bye now! Buh bye!
#fakenews
They were given the big, fat sack!
Jimmy JANUARY 26, 2017 AT 6:36 PM
State Department? Just merge it with the DOD.
The dept of War?
And I’ll take that beer with a scotch on the side…no, make a rye.
B.B. is reporting they were fired. I like the sound of that much more.
Resign or terminated, the end result is the same : beneficial to the Nation.
Maybe they’ll become commenters at FOX with Harf.
Fox: Fair and Balanced turned to Skewed and screwed.
Somebody tell Lindsey Graham that this is what “America First” means – throwing out the seditious, anti-American traitors that have infested the state department for so long.
And none of them resigned when the Hildabeast let one of them DIE horribly for political reasons?
Nominate Hillary for US ambassador to Libya
@geeknerd: “Nominate Hillary for US ambassador to Libya”
Oooooooooh, that’s a royal idea! Utterly fantastic! Ya think she’d take it? BWAAAAHAHAhahahhahahahahaaa!
Come on, fix this “news story”. It was four senior failures and Trump fired them. They did not quit.
This is more good news. I’ve been doing the ‘snoopy’ dance for a week.
FrontPageMag says they were fired. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265600/trump-fires-hillarys-benghazi-fixer-daniel-greenfield
So glad those globalists vermin are leaving on their own. We’ll have to pry out those that a have burrowed into all the different departments and regulatory agencies.
Is that the Patrick Kennedy that had a daddy who drowned a woman….. and isn’t he the one driving around DC on Ambien and alcohol…..
thought so!!
Yay!! They quit? Does that mean they don’t get any parting gifts? Hope so.
DRAIN THE SWAMP! HA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
According to AOL News, they didn’t quit – they were fired!
Supposedly Patrick Kennedy had been lobbying to keep his job. Trump reportedly ordered these moves in an effort to “clean house”.
Here’s the story:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/26/trump-ordered-slew-of-senior-state-department-resignations-report/21663691/
Bullsh*t; their employment was terminated.
Good, makes room for non-pansy non-globalists actual Patriots to work for our Government!
Not to worry. They all had new jobs waiting for them at gay bars in Cuba and North Korea.
The leftist vermin swamp dwellers never expected the Trump MAGA tsunami. LOL!
It’s a lie. They were fired. More fake news.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS!
“Resigned”…yeah, right.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=well+bye+with+guy+in+sombrero&view=detailv2&&id=21D8609582D59102F43F85A46E52F2572839BC87&selectedIndex=0&ccid=qDxkAglV&simid=608028655890597639&thid=OIP.Ma83c640209556f0277c76085237adf31o0&ajaxhist=0