The rumors started swirling earlier in the week that Mike “Pass the Potato Salad” Pompeo is looking for ways to get out of the Trump Administration and make his way back into a long-term lucrative political career, the U.S. Senate.
Now we supposedly know why. A State Dept. release of documents to American Oversight proves a connection between Rudy Guiliani’s investigation into Ukraine, the White House and the State Department.
And this proves that there was an investigation into Ukraine that everyone has admitted to. But, somehow this makes Mike Pompeo a coward who should resign because he didn’t protect his Ambassador from Ukraine Marie Yavanovitch who was dismissed this past May.
Like everything else a release like this looks like exactly what your confirmation bias thinks it looks like. To Democrats, desperate to get rid of Trump, this looks like proof he misused his power as President to investigate corruption flowing through the Ukrainian embassy wrongly dismissing a long-serving diplomat, Yavanovitch.
To normal people this looks like Trump doing his job investigating corruption flowing through the Ukrainian embassy and firing a likely very corrupt, obstructionist Yavanovitch protecting entrenched powers in D.C. especially the Clintonistas in the State Dept.
And honestly, this makes me sad that this release isn’t more damaging because I really want more reasons to dislike Mike Pompeo than I already do. But, I’m just not seeing it here.
That said, this does hurt Pompeo but not in in his current role but rather in his wanted future role, that of a Senator who will gladly gain political credibility with the media by throwing his former boss under the bus.
Because Trump can and will likely fire Pompeo now before Mike can arrange his cozy get-away. He learned his lesson not to repeat his mistake Nikki Haley, who was absolutely disloyal to him, by letting her go via resignation seemingly on her terms.
She now can still be the darling of the establishment Republican set because Trump didn’t disgrace her, though he should have.
Since then Trump has made it a point of either firing or forcing the resignation in response to popular policy.
These rumors about Pompeo have been around for months he has steadfastly refused to acknowledge them, of course. But let’s not be naive here, cabinet positions are always short-lived stints as stepping stones to better pastures.
And Mike does like his next meal.
I’m usually really loathe to take Dr. Steve Pieczenik seriously but this short note about Pompeo rings very true to me. It’s good analysis of the man’s history and Pieczenik’s conclusion makes sense given where we are in Pompeo’s life cycle.