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    Those career diplomats reviled by Trump are providing the evidence that could be used to impeach him

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The parade of witnesses going before the House committees weighing impeachment of President Donald Trump has come overwhelmingly from one government agency: the State Department.

    That would be the same State Department that Trump has dismissed and disdained; whose budget Trump has repeatedly slashed; whose foreign service corps Trump has hollowed out, in the opinion of many career diplomats.

    Now representatives of this agency are defying administration orders to refuse to testify and instead offering explosive evidence that could build the case for impeachment against Trump.

    It started nearly two weeks ago with the former U.S.

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