06.01.2017 - 22:29 [ Daily Beast ]

Report: Trump Orders Ambassadors Out by Inauguration Day

Ronald E. Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy and a career Foreign Service officer, was cited by the Times saying, “I don’t recollect there was ever a guillotine in January where it was just, ‘Everybody out of the pool immediately.’” Diplomats familiar with the situation said the mandate was quite harsh, and issued “without exceptions” in a cable sent Dec. 23.