Posted on 01/05/2017 9:21:50 PM PST by upchuck
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
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When draining a swamp, one has to hit ‘em hard and fast. Our soon-to-be president is taking the winning approach here. Great to see.
Come January 20th Trump is going to pull the plug and start draining
the swamp. Go Trump!
Good. No “civility.”
Trump is not going to try to appease the bed-wetters.
Awesome! Drain the swamp and #MAGA.
The Japanese will be very happy to see that idiot Kennedy go. Trump could appoint ME as Japan ambassador and get better respect from the Japanese than Obama got with that airhead.
So sweet um you know know Caroline will um you know will be out?
i’m selling cheap disposable, global cooling diapers.
“Breaking with decades of corrupt precedent”
Like a boss ... get out!
Hope he also orders removal of Marina Abramovic’s art from our embassies, and makes the Clinton Foundation reimburse the taxpayers.
That’s been the watchword for the Obama fiasco. “Unprecedented”
Good. No “civility.”
Trump is not going to try to appease the bed-wetters.
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This mindset has tremendous appeal to all of the dedicated Trump supporters in my circle of friends. We pray there will be absolutely NO appeasement by President Trump in dealing with these anti-American bastards.
Lol! I was just going to post something like your post ya know like Caroline would.
All of them will find jobs long before most of our jobless do.
All of them will find jobs long before most of our jobless do.
lol
I for one have great sympathy for those who want to ensure their children complete the school term before moving (although that was NEVER possible for me or my wife’s families when we were growing up) and believe they should reach into their savings to finance “staying on” for the time required. I’m sure they have the assets (and, if it is really that important to them there are always loans).
The political appointees are in a completely different class.
This is just awesome. It looks like this is adinistration is going to clean house. Maybe this country does have a chance.
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