Pompeo should discuss this with Trump, who refuses to believe the intel community about Russian interference, calls investigations that inconvenience him “witch hunts,” and smears an intel community whistleblower who filed a lawful complaint about his extortion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the State Department—which Pompeo *currently* runs—still has not put out a statement in support of Yovanovitch for fear of a mean tweet from Trump, and is pushing Bill Taylor out early so Pompeo won’t have to talk to him in Ukraine. cnn.com/2019/12/19/pol…
And John Durham, the investigator Trump and Barr hand-picked to substantiate conspiracy theories about the Russia probe, is reportedly going after Pompeo’s predecessor John Brennan—but you don’t hear Pompeo complaining about that 🤔
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