“The (Trump) Administration — through three years of attempted budget cuts, hiring freezes and grotesquely personal attacks — has eviscerated the country’s diplomatic corps and put highly sensitive matters of national security in the hands of politically appointed novices,” Ioffe reports.
One such “novice,” Ioffe points out, is Trump donor Gordon Sondland — U.S. ambassador to the European Union (EU) and one of the witnesses in House Democrats’ Trump impeachment hearings.