Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held about two dozen private lavish soirees, known as “Madison Dinners,” with prominent political and corporate leaders using taxpayer funds, an NBC News investigation found.
Pompeo is Ham Rove’s secret identity. He just takes off the glasses.
Ah! A roundup(s) of the usual suspects. SMDH
“…fundraiser-esque events.” Nice one, Ms. Cabrera.
And he did it all with his wife’s email!
I don’t recall Secretary of State Clinton hosting ritzy taxpayer-funded dinners with CEOs.
Lock him up!
All it would have taken to have put a stop to this is 4 Republican senators. The opportunity has not gone away.
Named after Ashley or James Madison?
Invitations to the dinners state that the gatherings aim to “share ideas on the future of America and the World” and “further our diplomatic goals.” State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus described the functions as “a world-class opportunity to discuss the mission of the State Department and the complex foreign policy matters facing our exceptional nation” in a statement to NBC News.
I think his spokesperson’s description sounds like someone who doesn’t know what he’s suppose to be doing, hence inviting various people to tell him what he should be doing.
Well that and the grifting, that goes without saying.
The honorable Senators are not going to do anything until they see riots on the streets, maybe not even then.
Funny how all of the individuals who attempt to stand up for us in this administration get fired anyway, despite promises of protection from us, and laws that are supposed to ensure the same.
With the firing of the inspectors general a la Trump, what miniscule oversight exists has been trampled while the administration continues to hollow out and transform every agency in the executive branch. Who is left in the State Dept who can or will actually stand up to Pompeo and Trump.
We are allowing all of our heroes, the people we have been begging to stand up to this corruption, to be picked off like ducks in a shooting gallery. This is the worst thing I have ever seen in America in my meager 68 years.
Pompeo: Putting the “fun” back in dysfunction.
Even worse than “The Flying Nun” or “My Mother the Car”?
Even worse than the Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan’s Island, Ralph.
So, if these dinners were about gathering ideas from important foreign policy figures (like Marjorie Dannenfelser!), there should have been note-takers who made transcripts. And the “most transparent administration” would have no reason not to release those transcripts to demonstrate that they were not political events held on federal property.
Right?
Pompous strangely reminds me Spiro Agnew.
His downfall for tax evasion (bribery, extortion, conspiracy also mentioned) was during another time, I guess.
There is a window of opportunity to stop Trump.
I have been focusing on polling over the past few weeks.
A 61/33 D/A at Nate’s site would raise eyebrows.
If we CANNOT produce those numbers, there is blame to go around.
Trump is fundamentally a coward…and even Hitler bowed to public pressure in the first stages of his regime.
We are still in the first stages of The Trump Regime. Why do I say this?
Look at today’s rants.
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Pompeo State Dept dinners: If sec' y of st Hillary had had such
dinners, how many congressional investigations would there have
been?
20, 2020
And the reason the House isn’t running public Trump investigations 24/7 in an effort to keep the really obvious corruption front and center at all times?