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House Democrats are grilling a stream of disgruntled career diplomats in a basement hearing room of the Capitol. The hearings are supposed to be secret, but — no surprise — Democrats leak snippets of the testimony daily. They’re hoping it will add up to a case for impeaching President Donald Trump. So far, all the testimony actually proves is that these State Department diplomats think they — not President Trump — ought to be running the nation’s foreign policy.
Never mind executive privilege or impeachment. The most pressing constitutional issue at hand is who decides the nation’s foreign policy: the president or the permanent bureaucracy. House Democrats are accusing Trump of offering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a quid pro quo: dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for nearly $400 million in aid. Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky is the subject of the hearings, but these witnesses have no firsthand knowledge of the call. Instead, they’re whimpering about being sidelined by the Trump administration and objecting that top ambassadorial appointments are going to Trump’s friends instead of to them. They’re seething with disdain for the president.
For example, a deputy assistant secretary named George Kent, who testified on Oct. 15, complained he was cut out of important decisions. Boohoo. Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., leaked Kent’s testimony, saying “here is a senior state department official responsible for six countries” being ignored, while he watches Trump’s appointees “undermining 28 years of U.S. policy.” William Taylor, acting Ukrainian ambassador who testified Tuesday, seethed with indignation that Trump went “outside regular State Department channels.”
Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, described what’s happening: “A group of mostly career bureaucrats” refuse to accept that “elections have consequences. And foreign policy is going to change from the Obama administration to the Trump administration.”
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