Reuters reports:
Joe Biden has called on Trump to disclose the transcript of his conversation with Zelensky so “the American people can judge for themselves.”
When asked about releasing the transcript, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told ABC News that “those are private conversations between world leaders and it wouldn’t be appropriate to do so except in the most extreme circumstances.”
The intelligence community inspector general has described the whistleblower’s August 12 complaint as “serious” and “urgent,” conditions that would normally require him to forward the complaint to Congress. Trump has characterized the complaint as “just another political hack job.”
As you can see below, Pompeo got his marching orders to repeat Trump’s lies about Biden on every Sunday show.
“You just gave me a report… none of which I’ve seen,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells @martharaddatz when asked about a report that President Trump pressed the President of Ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden’s son. https://t.co/CaWsz4XapY pic.twitter.com/coDl6mG6Dy
— ABC News (@ABC) September 22, 2019
The U.S. Secretary of State endorses Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to seek help from a foreign government to investigate President Trump’s political opponent pic.twitter.com/hE8jHum8ib
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 22, 2019
A telling interview with @SecPompeo by @margbrennan. Besides endorsing Trump & Giuliani’s demands of Ukraine on Biden, Pompeo dodges 2 questions: 1) Did State Dept. help with that? 2) Did Pompeo himself ask Ukraine to do an investigation? Pompeo’s refusal to answer is revealing. https://t.co/x1ozC5Qr1k
— Edward Wong (@ewong) September 22, 2019
John Roberts asks Secretary Mike Pompeo whether President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son. #FNS #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/Vnw79FvoTL
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) September 22, 2019
Sec Pompeo on how Trump decides to provide support to Ukraine: “Those conversations have always been 100% appropriate, 100% lawful and 100% ensuring that the American taxpayers were protected, that we put those resources to good use and we got good outcomes in Ukraine…” on Fox
— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) September 22, 2019