[jimtorr]

....top officials .... had blocked an effort to release a statement of support for ousted US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

I read this as saying that people who were not top officials (career beauracrats, aka The Deep State) attempted to "officially" express support for someone the boss wanted gone, which would have been a public embarrassment.

[Seruzawa]

This show of support is good. Fire all of them, too.