New reasons are emerging for why it was important that the inspector general of the State Department be removed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wasn’t just illegally using the State Department personnel to handle his personal errands—he turned taxpayer-funded dinners intended to support U.S. foreign policy objectives into a means of building his own political clout. Instead of…
Welp, congressional Democrats investigating why Donald Trump fired the State Department watchdog just got a whopper of a lead from the man who originally said he let the inspector general go because he had lost confidence in him. Asked why he thought Steve Linick needed to be removed, Trump offered a blunt response that surely…
On Saturday, The New York Times reported what we probably should have presumed all along: It was Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who “urged” Donald Trump to fire the State Department’s inspector general, continuing the widespread purge of government officials responsible for oversight of the impeached president and his team of corrupt incompetents. The…
On Fox News Sunday, Donald Trump promised his administration was putting together a comprehensive report on the coronavirus that clearly has a foregone conclusion: It’s all China’s fault. “We’re going to be giving a very strong report as to exactly what we think happened,” Trump said during a virtual town hall. “And I think it…