That’s what a US House member has revealed….
This seems to be a recurring pattern with President Trump who does not keep anyone around that isn’t loyal to him and his agenda….
Trump and legality sometimes is a problem…
As president he does have the ability to get rid of those asking questions about things he or his people do….
Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D.-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed the State Inspector General was fired after opening an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said the timing suggested “an unlawful act of retaliation.” The State Department did not explain Linick’s removal or address criticism, and the White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry Friday night.
A Democratic congressional aide said that Linick was looking into Pompeo’s “misuse of a political appointee at the Department to perform personal tasks for himself and Mrs. Pompeo.”
President Trump said in a Friday letter to Pelosi that the inspector general no longer had his “fullest confidence” and would be removed in 30 days, the required period of advance notice to lawmakers.
The firing came weeks after Trump removed Christi Grimm as principal deputy inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, after Grimm’s office criticized the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic…
Note….
Gonna be interesting when Trump finally leaves office….
Hmmmmm?
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) denounced President Trump’s firings of internal government oversight officials, calling it a “threat to accountable democracy,” CNN reports.
Said Romney: “The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose. It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”
Politicalwire…