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Title: ‘He might have lost his job’: Mike Pompeo ‘helpless’ to save diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, sources say
Post by: mystery-ak on November 15, 2019, 11:53:25 pm

‘He might have lost his job’: Mike Pompeo ‘helpless’ to save diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, sources say
by Joel Gehrke
 | November 15, 2019 03:39 PM



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was unable to stop President Trump from ousting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, according to impeachment witnesses and people close to the situation.

“There's no way that Pompeo could go and save her,” a person with knowledge of Trump’s hostility toward Yovanovitch told the Washington Examiner. “That's just not going to work.”

Yovanovitch’s abrupt recall from Kyiv in May focused criticism on Pompeo because he failed to protect her.

“He played it poorly,” Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and a friend of Yovanovitch, told the Washington Examiner. “He conceded, or was prepared to concede, a huge amount of his foreign policy authority to Rudy Giuliani ... this was a situation where I think the ambassadors in the field should be backed up.”

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Title: Re: ‘He might have lost his job’: Mike Pompeo ‘helpless’ to save diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, sources
Post by: truth_seeker on November 16, 2019, 02:42:10 am

How does one "drain the swamp" if they don't drain the swamp?

Title: Re: ‘He might have lost his job’: Mike Pompeo ‘helpless’ to save diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, sources
Post by: Bigun on November 16, 2019, 02:46:04 am

Yet more sour grapes from the striped pants crowd.  :yawn2: