WASHINGTON —The Ukraine impeachment inquiry has created the first rift between President Donald Trump and the Cabinet member who has been his closest ally, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to four current and former senior administration officials.
I carefully read the whole article. And, to no one’s surprise, not one of the sources was identified. All hearsay.
Of all government departments, State, with it’s 75,000 political lifers who think they know best, is clearly the worst one for someone to try to carry out the president’s wishes.
After all, the president is charged with carrying out national defense and foreign policy.
Read the following and you’ll see what the President and Pompeo face.
In public testimony on Friday, Yovanovitch appeared to excoriate Pompeo for "the failure of State Department leadership to push back as foreign and corrupt interests apparently hijacked our Ukraine policy."
"It is the responsibility of the department's leaders to stand up for the institution and the individuals who make that institution the most effective diplomatic force in the world," she said.
According to administration officials, Pompeo's refusal to publicly defend Yovanovitch cemented a wider view within the State Department that he has enabled some of Trump's impulsive foreign policy decisions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. special forces from Syria after a phone call with Turkey's President Erdgoan.
"Pompeo is hated by his building," a person close to the secretary said, adding that he "feels the heat a great deal and feels it's personal at state."
In other words, she, not the president, is on the right track for the good of the nation.
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I carefully read the whole article. And, to no one’s surprise, not one of the sources was identified. All hearsay.
Of all government departments, State, with it’s 75,000 political lifers who think they know best, is clearly the worst one for someone to try to carry out the president’s wishes.
After all, the president is charged with carrying out national defense and foreign policy.
Read the following and you’ll see what the President and Pompeo face.
In public testimony on Friday, Yovanovitch appeared to excoriate Pompeo for "the failure of State Department leadership to push back as foreign and corrupt interests apparently hijacked our Ukraine policy."
"It is the responsibility of the department's leaders to stand up for the institution and the individuals who make that institution the most effective diplomatic force in the world," she said.
According to administration officials, Pompeo's refusal to publicly defend Yovanovitch cemented a wider view within the State Department that he has enabled some of Trump's impulsive foreign policy decisions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. special forces from Syria after a phone call with Turkey's President Erdgoan.
"Pompeo is hated by his building," a person close to the secretary said, adding that he "feels the heat a great deal and feels it's personal at state."
In other words, she, not the president, is on the right track for the good of the nation.
More @ Trump's impeachment ire turns on Pompeo amid diplomats' starring roles