Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating his political rivals as business as usual on Monday.
Here’s hoping you slimeballs just keeeep on talkin’…
cuz that Senate seat in Kansas is looking better and better for the D’s.
Five hundred years ago, it was normal to apply leeches to remedy all sorts of ailments. Doesn’t mean it was effective or a good idea. Even if this sort of quid pro quo politics is “normal” (it isn’t according to our laws), it doesn’t mean that it’s something we should accept and keep doing.
This guy…if Obama did what Trump did, tried to get a foreign power to investigate McCain or Romney, the Republicans would have had him up on charges within a month. He’s trying to conflate actual diplomacy, where nations discuss and come into conflict over their desires, with a corrupt attempt to influence our next election using the resources of a foreign nation. Not only is that not how diplomacy works (since it wasn’t being done for the good of America but the good of the president alone), it’s also illegal under campaign finance law.
Watch the Republicans keep trying to rally around this point…hopefully they get hammered with the difference, where a corrupt president attempted to cheat in the next election.
Nice try, Fatso. Pompeo is a pompous prick!
Jesus, this is infuriating. Pompeo is intentionally conflating holding out favors for action in the national interest with an effort to bribe someone in the interests of personal political gain. It’s middle-school conceptual level. One is normal and has been around for thousands of years, the other is corrupt. Not only does the CNBC dipshit not call him on it, the mainstream media can’t seem to get it straight either.
Yeah. No.
As the kids would say.
“It’s the nature of politics, of power, of foreign interactions,” said the secretary of state. “Each country trying to act and deliver on–for its own people. That’s what sovereign leaders are hired to do, brought onboard to do.”
I’d love to hear Pompeo explain how manufacturing dirt on Biden’s kid is in the interest of the American people.
“Each country trying to act and deliver on–for its own people. That’s what sovereign leaders are hired to do, brought onboard to do.”
I feel that there is so much wrong here.
First leaders are not hired, they are not brought on to do, they are elected, at least in Democracies.
Second there seems to me this constant repeating of the word “sovereign” in a lot of Republican talking points. Which is funny when they need another country to help them get elected by interfering with or donating to Republican campaigns.
So George Kent testified Putin and Hungary’s Orban encouraged trump to believe Ukraine/Zelinsky couldn’t be trusted.
“Was the Trump-Zelensky call that you heard and the others you heard in fact the norm, not the exception?” Frost asked. “And that people should just accept that and get used to that’s what diplomacy is like today?”
Are you fucking kidding me? This is what passes for journalism these days? No wonder we have a third rate reality TV twit trying to act like he’s the king of America.
OK, Mike, name 1 instance of this, other than your own. Just 1.
“Sometimes that means one country will have to give a little more or a little bit less,”
So, according to Pompeo, asking Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden and his son is just doing the business of diplomacy? Asking another country to interfere in our elections is normal. It is against U.S. election law and maybe the interviewer should have reminded him. He needs to go back to Kansas and buy a farm.
Yep. Selling out your country is the height of patriotism.
More gaslighting.
Incredible isn’t it: not just a softball question but one that fed the answer Pompous Pompeo wanted; # journalmalism is one of the reasons we can’t have nice things.
And Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are incredible forces of nature, FatBoy…
I know, faux pas for replying to my own comment, but let’s take a Republican talking point and put a question mark on the end of it, and ask it to the Republican promoting the talking point.
“That’s what sovereign leaders are hired to do…”
I assume he means by Putin.
Trump is such an easy mark for Putin and others.