- 29 Jan 2020 16:16
#15062503
First thing Trump did was rip the guts out of the State Dept. We lost most of a generation of professionals, and repairing State (and our relationship with the world) will be what the next generation will have to do.
It gets worse.
As head of State, Pompeo is supposed to defend his people, when that is warranted. The buzz from State is that he never does, more about that in a minute.
State is supposed to champion freedom of the press. That's also relevant to what Pompeo just did.
Pompeo is neck deep in the Ukraine mess. He tried to deny it, but there are just too many people now putting him at the scene of the crime.
When a NPR reporter asked him about Ukraine, he went nuts. He tried to question her competence, but she's an expert on Europe, and knows a lot more than Pompeo. He was trying to intimidate her, and that backfired, it's all over the news now.
Bullying the press to protect his lies is not promoting freedom of the press. Kinda the opposite of that.
The question was whether he defended Yovanovitch, who was one of our best diplomats. If you know how Trump operates, you know he did not. Which is why he didn't want to admit he sucks at his job.
The extortion was straight out of the Mafia playbook, do what we say or you die. Because if the funding to Ukraine was stopped, that would happen in short order. Which is why there are so many Russian characters involved. Even if they didn't get to conquer the rest of Ukraine, dealing with a corrupt government would work out just fine.
It gets worse.
As head of State, Pompeo is supposed to defend his people, when that is warranted. The buzz from State is that he never does, more about that in a minute.
State is supposed to champion freedom of the press. That's also relevant to what Pompeo just did.
Pompeo is neck deep in the Ukraine mess. He tried to deny it, but there are just too many people now putting him at the scene of the crime.
When a NPR reporter asked him about Ukraine, he went nuts. He tried to question her competence, but she's an expert on Europe, and knows a lot more than Pompeo. He was trying to intimidate her, and that backfired, it's all over the news now.
Bullying the press to protect his lies is not promoting freedom of the press. Kinda the opposite of that.
The question was whether he defended Yovanovitch, who was one of our best diplomats. If you know how Trump operates, you know he did not. Which is why he didn't want to admit he sucks at his job.
The extortion was straight out of the Mafia playbook, do what we say or you die. Because if the funding to Ukraine was stopped, that would happen in short order. Which is why there are so many Russian characters involved. Even if they didn't get to conquer the rest of Ukraine, dealing with a corrupt government would work out just fine.
Facts have a well known liberal bias