#GoMasha is their rallying cry.
In private conversations, they trade admiring notes about
career State Department officials like William B. Taylor Jr. and George P.
Kent, who delivered damning testimony about a shadow Ukraine policy
infected by partisan politics and presidential conspiracy theories, and William
V. Roebuck, a senior diplomat in Syria who wrote a searing memo on how Mr. Trump abandoned the Kurds
and upended American influence.
And they are opening their wallets to help raise money —
including nearly $10,000 last Monday alone — to offset the legal bills of
department officials called to testify before Congress.
Rarely has the State Department, often seen as a staid
pillar of the establishment, been the center of a revolt against a president
and his top appointees. But as a parade of department officials has recounted
to lawmakers how policy was hijacked by partisan politics, many career
diplomats say they have been inspired by their colleagues’ willingness to stand
up to far more powerful voices after nearly three years of being ignored or disparaged by Mr.
Trump and those he has chosen to lead the department.
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