Like so many of President Trump's appointments, the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (ag 55) has a strong religious connection as an evangelical Presbyterian Christian and is said to keep a bible open on his desk. He is known to make extravagant statements about Donald Trump suggesting Trump is sent by God.* Pompeo was briefly Director of the CIA under Trump where he planned to hire chaplains.**
Pompeo is a graduate of West Point graduating with a degree in engineering management and served about five years of active duty in Germany leaving the service as a Captain. He also obtained a law degree from Harvard and was involved in both the Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.** As Secretary of State Pompeo has said that Isreal is how the Middle East should look.
In rejecting a claimed double standard in recognizing Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights but placing sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea in 2014, Pompeo said "What the President did with the Golan Heights is recognize the reality on the ground and the security situation necessary for the protection of the Israeli state."**
Pompeo's most recent trouble regards his lying about not being on the telephone during the infamous call by Donald Trump to Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he urged Ukraine President to investigate the Bidens (father and son). Now Pompeo admits he was in on the call.
Pompeo's obsequious behavior toward President Trump has received some very strong responses.
Meanwhile, Pompeo’s slavishness toward Trump somehow deepened even more, leading to the notorious comments from former officials in a New Yorker profile that Pompeo is “among the most sycophantic and obsequious people around Trump” and “a heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass.”***
Pompano has turned over a large segment of the State Department in the effort to get Ukraine President to investigate Hunter Trump and his father. Hunter got on the board of directors of a private Ukranian electric power firm said to pay him $50,000/mo. So Trump feels something is crooked (or at least he hopes so). As they say, it probably is "not what you know but who you know." I've had it explained to me why the company probably did this, but I won't go into it. If that is a crime, then Trump's family better lookout. The Chinese have given daughter Ivanka a load of patents or is it copyrights.
Pompeo is trying to keep his subordinates from participating in congressional oversight, which has caused the chairmen of three House committees to issue a warning to Pompareo about bullying his subordinates.****
* http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2019/08/mike-pompeo.html
** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2019/08/mike-pompeo.html
*** https://www.republicreport.org/2019/koch-puppet-to-trump-henchman-mike-pompeos-never-gonna-be-president-now/
**** https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mike-pompeo-impeachment-witness-intimidation/2019/10/01/id/935155/?ns_mail_uid=142cf6cb-b757-4a77-afda-d3310b9288ee&ns_mail_job=DM55752_10012019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010124awf001
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