Mike Pompeo offers another defense in his IG controversy -- then immediately undercuts it
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued his latest comments Wednesday in the growing controversy over his recommendation that President Trump fire an inspector general who has been investigating Pompeo.
Pompeo’s defense basically boiled down to this: It couldn’t possibly have been retaliation, because I didn’t know what he was investigating.
Except then Pompeo acknowledged that he might well have known that he was under investigation. And his explanation glosses over other ways in which the firing could have been retaliatory.
Pompeo in his comments said that he should have pushed for Inspector General Steve Linick’s removal “some time ago.” Then he laid out his case for why this isn’t problematic.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-pompeo-offers-another-defense-in-his-ig-controversy-%e2%80%94-then-immediately-undercuts-it/ar-BB14nduC?li=BBnb7Kz
Channeling his boss.
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