With a parade of disgruntled State Department employee’s testifying TRUTHFULLY about the goings on by Donald Trump and others….AND?…Sec of State NOT having his OWN people’s back?
They did NOT take of their homework ….
And?
It’s kicking their asses….
Making Mike Pompeo a increasing liability to Trump…
And Donald Trump does NOT keep liabilities around for long….
The 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.
Trump has fumed for weeks that Pompeo is responsible for hiring State Department officials whose congressional testimony threatens to bring down his presidency, the officials said. The president confronted Pompeo about the officials — and what he believed was a lackluster effort by the secretary of state to block their testimony — during lunch at the White House on Oct. 29, those familiar with the matter said.
Inside the White House, the view was that Trump “just felt like, ‘rein your people in,’” a senior administration official said.
Trump particularly blames Pompeo for tapping Ambassador Bill Taylor in June to be the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, the current and former senior administration officials said.
Taylor has provided the House Intelligence Committee with some of the most damaging details on the White House’s effort to pressure Ukraine into investigating one of the president’s potential rivals in the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden.
A crack in the seemingly unbreakable bond between Trump and Pompeo is striking because Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman, is viewed as the “Trump whisperer” who has survived — and thrived — working for a president who has routinely tired of and discarded senior members of his team.
But the impeachment inquiry has put Pompeo in what one senior administration official described as an untenable position: trying to manage a bureaucracy of 75,000 people that has soured on his leadership and also please a boss with outsized expectations of loyalty….
Note…
AG Barr has tried to keep in stead with his boss with speeches….
Pompeo seems to setting up a fall back with a possible US Senate run in Kansas …
image…nbcnewyork.com
I would doubt if Trump will be actively trying to replace Pomoeo in the midst of this impeachment saga.
Pompeo may leave of his own volition however.
We’ll how long Trump is patient with Pompeo…
I suspect Pompeo will leave soon. He seems ambitious and at some point he will recognize that being associated with Trump in the long term will have at least as much of a downside as an upside.
While I can’t guess Pompeo’s future in Foggy Bottom, it’s not unreasonable to speculate that he might have party-political ambitions of his own, as he was progressing as a Congressman before joining the Administration as Director of Central Intelligence.
If Pompeo leaves Trump will have 3 Secretaries of State in his 1st term
That’s gotta be a record..
How about DHS bosses?
How many of his department heads have Senate confirmation?
Really?
This guy has run his OWN show absent the rules and the law….
It’s gonna take the next Democratic president a whole term at least to put things back and that won’t be everything….
The guy is a hot mess….
That has to be an open challenge to nerds like me; consulting one of the last NY Times Almanacs (2010), I see that John Tyler had four Secretaries of State in his 3-year, 11-month term: Daniel Webster (carried over from Tippecanoe’s single month in office), John S. Legaré, Abel Upshur and John C. Calhoun.
At the other extreme, FDR’s Sec. of State was Cordell Hull for eleven years in FDR’s cabinets, succeeded in 1944 by Edward Stettinius.