Blinken mocked for hosting State Department 'cry sessions' after officials have 'personal meltdown' over Trump victory

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is nether occurrence aft being accused of holding therapy 'cry sessions' for section staffers aft Donald Trump won the election. 

Blinken, who looks set to beryllium replaced by Marco Rubio successful January, has often clashed with the Republican-controlled Congress, being held successful contempt successful September for skipping a proceeding connected the disastrous exit from Afghanistan. 

California Congressman and Trump state Darrell Issa wrote an unfastened missive to Blinken smashing the State Department for the rumored counseling sessions implicit Trump's win, calling them 'disturbing.'

Reports of the meetings archetypal came retired November 11, erstwhile a memo to section employees titled 'managing accent during change' was sent retired little than a week aft Trump's victory.

Sources told the Washington Free Beacon the meetings amounted to a 'cry session' for bereft wide staffers.

Issa wrote to Blinken this week: 'I americium acrophobic that the Department is catering to national employees who are personally devastated by the mean functioning of American ideology done the proviso of government-funded intelligence wellness counseling due to the fact that Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States.'

The email promoted staffers arsenic being capable to instrumentality vantage of a stressful situation of alteration which Issa termed arsenic having a 'personal meltdown implicit the effect of a escaped and just election.'  

'Change is simply a changeless successful our lives, but it tin often bring astir accent and uncertainty,' the email said. 

'Join america for an insightful webinar wherever we delve into effectual accent absorption techniques to assistance you navigate these challenging times. This league volition supply tips and applicable strategies for managing accent and maintaining your good being.' 

At slightest 2 meetings were enactment connected the docket wrong the span of 3 days connected the topic. 

The department's Employee Consultation Services successful the Bureau of Medical Services hosted the session. 

Counseling sessions embody a State Department that resembled academia gone mad, a root told the Free Beacon. 

'For 4 years, wrong the fertile and file, determination has been an implicit accent connected people's feelings, often with a assemblage campus-like fervor, alternatively than the enactment of advancing America's interests.' 

'I americium acrophobic that the Department is catering to national employees who are personally devastated by the mean functioning of American ideology done the proviso of government-funded intelligence wellness counseling due to the fact that Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States,' Issa said successful a missive to Blinken past week.

The missive comes aft a Free Beacon study earlier this period that elaborate 2 alleged therapy sessions that were held astatine the State Department aft Trump's victory, with sources telling the outlet that 1 specified lawsuit amounted to an accusation 'cry session.' 

'The specified information that the Department is hosting these sessions raises important questions astir the willingness of its unit to instrumentality the lawful argumentation priorities that the American radical elected President Trump to prosecute and implement,' the missive obtained by Fox News Digital said.

'The Trump Administration has a mandate for wholesale alteration successful the overseas argumentation arena, and if overseas work officers cannot travel done connected the American people's preferences, they should resign and question a governmental assignment successful the adjacent Democrat administration.' 

The State Department appears acceptable for agelong overdue reforms nether the Florida Senator and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Rubio. 

Rubio, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, is considered a overseas argumentation hawk and volition pb Trump's prowess connected the satellite stage.

He presently serves arsenic the apical Republican connected the Senate Intelligence Committee and was considered to beryllium connected Trump's shortlist for vice president earlier this year.

Rubio is the lad of Cuban immigrants and has built his marque successful Washington arsenic being hard connected Iran and China. 

Trump is determined to extremity Russia's warfare successful Ukraine connected Day One of the 2nd word of his presidency.  

And the Middle East, which has been plunged into chaos amid Israel's struggle with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, volition beryllium to beryllium challenging arsenic China continues its efforts to sabotage the U.S.