In testimony before the House impeachment inquiry last month, a former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo detailed the behind-the-scenes diplomatic reaction to President Donald Trump’s insults of the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
The lack of defense of ambassadors from Trump’s vicious and false attacks isn’t a surprise. Pompeo is a Trump sycophant and hates his own department and ignores the law and the Constitution. He’s pure scum.
No surprises here. Clearly Trump and Pompeo have turned the State Department into their own personal cesspool. Drain the swamp my a*s.
Mr. McKinley,
We’re seeing the tip of the iceberg. What did you see below the surface as a senior State official? Nice that you resigned but I hope you feel some obligation to State staff to “destroy” the political operatives who have tried and partially succeeded in destroying the department.
He is more than that. Trump is his vehicle but look at the man, he has ambition all over his face.
The StateDept leadership is in cahoots with the Trump QPQ, that’s why there was no support from Pompeo!
The instincts of Trump and the top tier of his administration is consistently corrupt, unethical, immoral and illegal, but that is not a new revelation, it is merely being further reinforced.
Think of this as a continuation of a fantasy that “The Apprentice” was selling. Namely, that the key to running a successful organization is to fire people. I can only conclude that large numbers of people have never had the pleasure of working where people are arbitrarily and capriciously here today, gone tomorrow on a regular basis.
It’s completely demoralizing. Far from being motivated to excel, people are motivated to keep their head down and survive. It becomes impossible to achieve any sort of goal or vision beyond the bare minimum daily operations. Whatever project a person might’ve been working on is completely derailed for months when a key stakeholder is fired, and a person can only suffer that once or twice before saying to hell with it.
Here we go…as these transcripts come out we’ll get tidbits like this, followed up a full analysis that paints a picture of the corruption. Public trials will hammer home what was done, and the Republican’s desperation to avoid talking about it. Hopefully, the public trials also lead some witnesses to come forward to save their skins, though I have a feeling that the Democrats will lay out criminal cases for DoJ to investigate against some of the no-shows, which is exactly what they will deserve if they are trying to hide criminal behavior.
Another way to look at it is that diplomats are finding out how public schoolteachers feel. Turns out they don’t like being attacked by a man whose sum total knowledge and experience amounts to thinking he’s smarter than the plumber, on account of the big dump he left that morning.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Old American tradition: resentment of intellect, expertise and rectitude.
Eventually, though, Ortagus told McKinley in an email that “the Secretary had decided that it was better not to release a statement at this time and that it would be in part to protect Ambassador Yovanovitch not draw undue attention to her,” in McKinley’s words.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
You for got Petty.
Once again I ask: “What was PompousAss up to when he was running the CIA?”
Lee, Richard,or Kyle? Or did you mean Tom?
This is maddening. In undermining the State Department people, Trump literally behaves like an enemy of the US.
Pompeo didn’t respond to McKinley’s repeated attempts to get a department statement supporting Yovanovitch, McKinley testified.
“He listened,” McKinley testified of his first time raising the issue with Pompeo. “There was no pushback, no comment. It was just an acknowledgement that I was raising it.”
Pompeo responded similarly the next time McKinley brought up leadership’s lack of support for Department employees — in the same conversation that he told Pompeo he would be resigning.
“On that subject, he did not respond at all, again,” McKinley said.
McKinley spoke to Pompeo a third time over the phone when he presented his resignation. The Pompeo aide was “pretty direct” about the issue of not supporting career diplomats, he recalled.
“Again, I didn’t get a reaction at that point,” he testified.
Sweet Jesus, didn’t the aide understand that Pompeo is just a flunky whose job is to do what he is told by Trump and the Kochs. Leadership just isn’t his thing. What a waste of Military Academy education.
Who could follow that reply?!?!
He actually is an enemy of the US!
When will gop wake up and realize we gave the White House to our enemies!!!