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OOPS: State Department Employees Were Preparing A Party For Hillary On Election Night

The night of the 2016 presidential election, State Department employees in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, where it was already morning, were preparing to celebrate a Hillary Clinton victory.

As Politico reports, the basement was “dominated by State Department employees, who are officially barred from political activism while living abroad but tend to support Democrats; some, anticipating a Hillary Clinton victory, were even calling the occasion a party. On the wall hung a Donald Trump piñata.”

Oops.

As the news started coming that Trump had taken a big lead: silence. The cover band that was playing packed up and left. Some Clinton fans stepped out to smoke; uniformed soldiers and veterans who were Trump fans remained.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the State Department employees were excitedly anticipating a Clinton victory; that result would guarantee they would keep their jobs, as opposed to being dismissed by President Trump after a Trump victory.

Indeed, Trump’s 2018 budget proposal included a 33% cut in funding for the State Department. In February, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired much of the seventh-floor staff, who worked for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices. Ambassador Kristie Kenney, the Counselor of the State Department, was let go; her staff was told that her position would not be filled in the near future.

The State Department has been functioning like a private entity for years; as recently as 2016 it thwarted the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to deport immigrants back to China, Guinea and Liberia, as well as other countries.

(First reported by the Daily Wire) http://www.dailywire.com/news/22844/oops-state-department-employees-were-preparing-hank-berrien   (October 27, 2017)


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