Mike Pompeo Delivers Illegal, Lie-Filled RNC Speech

August 26, 2020 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption

Fox News reports:

 “What stands out to me is that about two or three weeks ago, Donald Trump suggested that he might make his acceptance speech at the White House,” Fox News host Chris Wallace said Tuesday night. “And there was an uproar in Washington. Republican Senate leaders said, ‘That can’t happen. We can’t have that.’ That barrier was completely blown away tonight, for good or for ill.”

“We do need to point out that secretaries of state have never participated in political speeches,” he said. “In fact, it’s a regulation of the State Department that nobody that’s in the State Department can attend a political event, let alone participate in it. The State Department said, ‘Well, he’s operating in his personal capacity.’ But I don’t know what personal capacity a secretary of state has.”

The Insider reports:

Much of what Pompeo said was at odds with reality. He claimed, for example, that “NATO is stronger” because of Trump. But the president has spent the past several years bashing the historic alliance while raising the nerves of US allies in the process, and he’s repeatedly made misleading assertions about how NATO is funded.

At another point, Pompeo said, “In North Korea, the president lowered the temperature and against all odds, got the North Korean leadership to the table.”

But the primary point of Trump sitting down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was to get the rogue state to denuclearize, which it has not yet done as it continues to engage in aggressive activities that have made US allies in the region uneasy.

The Washington Post reports:



Every U.S. citizen who enters government service agrees to give up some of their rights to engage in politics. The Hatch Act prohibits civil servants from running for partisan office or using their title, office or any sort of government resource while engaging in political activities, and the law imposes even tighter restrictions on those who work on national security matters.

Diplomats, meanwhile, face an added set of restrictions that prohibit them and their families from engaging in any partisan political activity while serving overseas, even in their personal capacities. These transgressions are perhaps unsurprising in an administration so habitually norm-breaking that some White House staffers reportedly view Hatch Act violations as a thing of pride.

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