Engel Raises Questions About Pompeo: ‘What Else Is He Hiding?’

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) speaks during a news conference discussing Russian sanctions on February 15, 2017. (Photo credit: ZACH GIBSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel (D-NY) is raising questions about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In a series of Monday morning tweets, Engel argued that Pompeo’s indifference in defending ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch after her public testimony is tied to how “Pompeo was assisting in the scheme to pressure Ukraine to help Trump politically.”

Engel’s tweets also included a link to a New York Times report that outlined Pompeo’s role in Trump’s attempt to pressure the Ukrainian government into digging up false allegations against Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which includes phone conversations with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Engel added that Yovanovitch’s abrupt ouster is what prompted the House Foreign Affairs Committee to look into “this situation and Giuliani’s involvement.” He then went after Pompeo for defying the House committee’s subpoena by asking: “What else is he hiding?”

Last month, Engel said during an interview on CBS that Pompeo has not been complying with the impeachment inquiry. Engel’s remarks came the day after Pompeo failed to meet the deadline for the House committees’ subpoena.

Earlier this month, Pompeo narrowly denied a claim by his former adviser Michael McKinley that he put a stop to a public State Department statement supporting Yovanovitch following her ouster.

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  1. He looks like the new president of Freedonia.

  2. Please leave Pompeo alone.
    The" Chosen One" has chosen Pompeo and must be in God’s glory and always correct .

  3. So the West Point Mafia is not covering themselves in glory… Pompeo and Esper are in the news for all the wrong reasons… I guess no matter how much they brag about it, you cannot teach integrity, honor and patriotism… if you are a self-serving ruffian you will continue to be so, even if you graduate number 1 at the Military Academy.

  4. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    What else is he hiding?

    Not much, just a little “light treason.”

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