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Mike Pompeo blames Bob Menendez over IG firing controversy
NY Post ^ | May 20, 2020

Posted on 05/20/2020 10:18:03 AM PDT by deplorableindc

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he didn’t retaliate against Steve Linick when he asked President Trump to fire him as State Department inspector general — and that New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is to blame for stoking controversy about the move.

Pompeo accused Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during a Wednesday press conference at the State Department.

“This is all coming through the office of Senator Menendez,” Pompeo said. “I don’t get my ethics guidance from a man who was criminally prosecuted — case number 15-155, New Jersey federal district court. A man for whom his Senate colleagues, bipartisan said basically that he was taking bribes. That’s not someone who I look to for ethics guidance.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bobmenendez; brianbulatao; mikepompeo; newjersey; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; pedobob; stevelinick
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To: deplorableindc

21 posted on 05/20/2020 10:45:47 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: deplorableindc

talk about hubris, Menendez is a criminal and should be in jail period.


22 posted on 05/20/2020 10:46:32 AM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: deplorableindc

23 posted on 05/20/2020 10:46:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: V_TWIN

I honestly think he would be an excellent successor to Donald Trump in 2024...


24 posted on 05/20/2020 10:46:43 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: 1Old Pro

I don’t know that they can. It is hard to play that clip without bringing up the truth about Menendez.


25 posted on 05/20/2020 10:47:10 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“ Satisfying but not sure politically it was the best move.”

Yes, because the Bush policy of appeasing Democrats was a real winner.


26 posted on 05/20/2020 10:47:24 AM PDT by mongrel
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To: deplorableindc

27 posted on 05/20/2020 10:47:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I like a good fight.


28 posted on 05/20/2020 10:49:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: volunbeer
I don’t know that they can. It is hard to play that clip without bringing up the truth about Menendez.

Pompeo is a smart man.

29 posted on 05/20/2020 10:49:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: mongrel; pepsi_junkie
It was infuriating, he refused to stick up for himself.


30 posted on 05/20/2020 10:50:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: Magnatron

“President Pompeo” has a nice ring to it.

VP?


31 posted on 05/20/2020 10:51:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: rlmorel

Remember when W received obama at the WH, shook hands and then a SS agent or someone squirted W’s hands with hand sanitizer? I’d of done the same.
Lol


32 posted on 05/20/2020 10:54:55 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: mongrel
The President can get away with calling Senators crooks. Pompeo is great but he's not the President and he has to deal with the Senate on a different level.

I'm just saying that it's not always wise to call someone who has oversight authority a criminal in public, even if he obviously is one. That's a bit beyond just fighting back. It's more like issuing Menendez a double-dog-dare. Menendez will take the challenge, you watch.

33 posted on 05/20/2020 11:01:55 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Nah - They intend to take Pompeo out. The Senator gave him no choice. Senators are in the unmasking scheme up to their necks and they have already done everything in their power to tie Pompeo’s hands. Good luck to the Senator.


34 posted on 05/20/2020 11:10:47 AM PDT by Shanty Shaker
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To: rlmorel

35 posted on 05/20/2020 11:15:27 AM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: deplorableindc

Don’t mess with Pompeo!


36 posted on 05/20/2020 11:15:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ouch....even the case number for the couch potatoes.


37 posted on 05/20/2020 11:22:27 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: milagro

It is the Trump-Support Team fighting.

The “pubs” are still cowering under the stairs.


38 posted on 05/20/2020 11:23:28 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: pepsi_junkie

They got balls for sale at your local hardware store.


39 posted on 05/20/2020 11:33:05 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: deplorableindc

How this scum was not prosecuted and the a-hole NJ voters re-elected him is what is wrong with this country.


40 posted on 05/20/2020 11:34:12 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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