Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is overseeing employees who are reportedly growing more fed up with him by the day as he becomes further enmeshed in the scandal over President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
Six current and former State Department officials told ABC News on Thursday that career staffers are upset with the way Pompeo using the department to help Trump fend off the House impeachment inquiry.
According to ABC, they’re particularly angered by Pompeo’s silence over Trump’s decision to remove Ambassador to Ukraine Maria Yovanovitch, who was well-respected among her colleagues, from her post for hindering Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to legitimize his conspiracy theory about Joe Biden.
“It does not escape notice that [Pompeo] was on the call where Trump sold the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine up the river,” one official told ABC, referring to when Trump told Ukrainian Present Volodymyr Zelensky that Yovanovitch was “bad news” during their infamous phone call in July.
State Department officials are also upset with Pompeo’s renewed push to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails, which involved contacting 130 officials who appeared in the inbox of Clinton’s private email account and informing them the emails were now considered “classified” and therefore security violations.
A former senior official told the Washington Post that the move was an attempt to help Republicans “keep the Clinton issue alive” amid Trump’s political disasters.
Too bad they work for him and not he for them.
Their anger is moot. There’s nothing they can really do about it.
That’s not quite true. They could start anonymously releasing all kinds of damning documents. I hope they will.
More whistleblowers, please. Also at DOJ against Barr.
Any decent whistleblowers in the State Dept? Just curious.
We are now in the age of Trumpocide.
We the people and they the people of the World will either bow down or be removed in one form or another . Ask the Kurds.
Trump fears only Putin and McConnell and they will prop him up as long as they have something to gain.
Republicans now have their last chance to become American’s or Trump ass kissers.