In her disturbing statement to the House, she didn’t hide “the deep disappointment and dismay” she feels by the events surrounding her recall and the current state of a once proud State Department.

For Foreign Service officers who thought “our government will have our backs and protect us if we come under attack from foreign interests,” she said, “that basic understanding no longer holds true.” She warned that “harm will come when private interests circumvent professional diplomats for their own gain, not the public good.”

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Trump apparently didn’t consider her enough of a team player in his Ukrainian plan, which was managed by presidential lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. The once lauded New York mayor was an important player in the push for a politically driven investigation by Kiev into a potential Trump opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, and Biden’s son Hunter.

Her recall and Trump’s denunciation incensed Women Ambassadors Serving America, an organization of more than 170 current and former U.S. envoys.

Citing the White House memorandum of Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Women Ambassadors’ recent statement chided Trump for comments that “demean and threaten Ambassador Yovanovitch . . . despite her very strong record of speaking out clearly and firmly against corruption in Ukraine.”

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She had already been recalled from Kiev in May, but that didn’t stop Trump from “denigrating the Ambassador and stating that ‘she’s going to go through some things’ ” during the call, the statement said.

Trump’s comment “suggests that it might be an intention to punish the Ambassador for unspecified actions,” the Women Ambassadors added. “This appears to be a threat of retaliation for political reasons, which is both shocking and inappropriate.”

Another former ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer, described Trump’s request to Ukraine for “derogatory information” on Biden as “an abuse of power.”

Pifer’s email added this ominous prospect: “I have seen nothing quite as blatant as this but have to wonder if there are other questions where the White House has subverted American interests to the President’s.”

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Earlier this week, the White House blocked the House appearance of Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. The White House said the administration would not participate in the “partisan and unconstitutional inquiry.”

It is Trump’s State Department, however, that has played partisan politics. An August report by the agency’s Office of Inspector General said “numerous employees” protested that Assistant Secretary Kevin Moley and his former senior adviser Mari Stull praised or criticized staffers because of their “perceived political views. For example, several career employees reported that throughout her tenure at the Department, Ms. Stull referred to them or to other career employees as ‘Obama holdovers,’ ‘traitors,’ or ‘disloyal.’ ”

In one case, Stull accused an employee who had accompanied Congressional Black Caucus members to the United Nations, as is routine, of “trying to ‘thwart’ President Trump and undermine his agenda,” the inspector general reported. “After the trip, many of the employee’s job responsibilities were taken away.”

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In a response included with the report, Moley said, “I did not accuse any individual of undermining the President’s agenda.” Stull left the department and could not be reached for comment.

The inspector general said it could close its recommendation that department officials consider disciplinary action against Moley when the State Department decides on what action, if any, it plans to take. The recommendation remains open.

Holding military assistance to Kiev hostage to Trump’s appeal for a politically driven investigation into a potential election opponent, as reflected in the Trump call with Zelensky, was another example of Trump’s private interest eclipsing the national interest. Trump says there was not a quid pro quo and that his call was “perfect.”

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In addition, there is a growing belief among the State Department’s workforce, The Washington Post reported Monday, that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “has subordinated its mission and abandoned colleagues in the service of President Trump’s political aims.”

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Before any of this, there was a sharp increase under Trump in political appointees taking positions that could be held by career staffers. About 45 percent of the ambassadors he has appointed are politicos, compared to just 30 percent under the Obama administration, according to the American Foreign Service Association, the union for Foreign Service officers.

Except for the director general slot that by law must go to a Foreign Service officer, “there is not a single career official who has been nominated to be assistant secretary of a bureau,” said retired ambassador Laura Kennedy, who was among those signing the statement from the Women Ambassadors. “It is unprecedented for the career public servants to be thus shut out of the policy-level ranks of the State Department.”