As numerous witnesses from the State Department obey lawful subpoenas from the House Intelligence Committee for the impeachment inquiry, dangerous sociopath and crime family boss Donald "Impeachable Me" Trump is reportedly fuming at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for not obstructing their testimony.
Pompeo, who is widely seen as a die-hard Trumper with future political ambitions, had to watch as Ambassador William Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent, and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich dismantled any arguments that Trump wasn't engaged in bribery and extortion of a foreign leader for his own political benefit. From NBC:
Inside the White House, the view was that Trump “just felt like, ‘rein your people in,’” a senior administration official said.Up until the impeachment inquiry, Pompeo was seen as one of Trump's closest Cabinet officials:
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.
"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.Cue tiny violins, please. With State Department employees coming forward to testify that they overheard Trump and clueless donor Gordon Sondland talk about "investigating" the Bidens, the heat on Pompeo will only increase. It doesn't help that Pompeo refused to support his diplomatic team, and is now the object of loathing within his own Department:
'He feels like he's getting a bunch of blame from the president and the White House for having hired all these people who are turning against Trump,' an official familiar with the dynamic said of Pompeo, 'and that it's the State Department that is going to bring him down, so it's all Pompeo's fault.'” (our emphasis)
“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.”He's getting it from both sides, because everything Trump touches dies.
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