Exclusive: Trump team asks three US senior career diplomats to resign, sources say
Source: Reuters
January 15, 2025 4:36 PM EST Updated 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Aides to President-elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S. State Department's workforce and internal coordination to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said, in a possible signal of deeper changes ahead for the diplomatic corps.
The team overseeing the State Department's transition to the new administration, the Agency Review Team, has requested that Dereck Hogan, Marcia Bernicat and Alaina Teplitz leave their posts, the sources said.
While political appointees typically submit their resignations when a new president takes office, most career foreign service officers continue from one administration to the next. All three officials have worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations throughout the years, including as ambassadors.
Trump, who will be inaugurated Jan. 20, pledged during his presidential campaign to "clean out the deep state" by firing bureaucrats that he deems as disloyal. There's a little bit of a concern that this might be setting the stage for something worse," one of the U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-team-asks-three-us-senior-career-diplomats-resign-sources-say-2025-01-15/
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Ambassador Dereck Hogan.
Ambassador Marcia S. Bernicat.
Ambassador Alaina Teplitz.
all these Government employees tsf wants to fire are the very ones who'll stand in his way of
becoming king, they should all lie and claim they'll be loyal. tsf lies all the time, turn around is
fair play.
Others buy their way to these coveted roles. I guess that's what the wealth of the oligarchs can buy them: A bit of class like this ripesuck below.
Link:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/02/15/do-we-have-to-keep-calling-him-ambassador-gordon-sondland-forever/
