Deep state actors are again making moves against President Donald Trump, this time coming after the president through a line of attack against U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody Johnson.
Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick’s investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo included allegations that he made a staffer walk his dog.
President Donald Trump mocked the media Monday for asking him about the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick last Friday, who was apparently looking into claims that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had asked a staffer to walk his dog, among other personal errands.
A senior State Department official suggested the department’s former inspector general was fired in part due to concerns that he was leaking.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Congress would look into President Donald Trump’s firing of Steve Linick, the State Department’s inspector general She said the removal of Linick “could be unlawful.” Partial transcript as follows:
President Donald Trump is being criticized by his opponents after firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called it a “threat to accountable democracy.” However, President Barack Obama did not nominate an inspector general for the State Department during his entire first term.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, called the administration’s removal of multiple inspector generals a “threat to accountable democracy” and a “fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”
The State Department’s Inspector General, Steve Linick, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, was fired Friday night.
The State Department inspector general provided documents Wednesday supporting accusations of Ukraine-linked wrongdoing from Joe Biden and his son.
