Trump’s secretary of state, already under scrutiny for urging the removal of the State Department’s inspector general, reportedly held about two dozen events with guests like Karl Rove, Laura Ingraham, and Ken Langone
— don’t quite fit the bill for a diplomatic dinner.
“The CEO of Chick-fil-A is not someone I would say is involved in foreign policy,” a source familiar with the dinners told NBC News, referring toThough congressional committees have reportedly been looking into the dinners and Linick is said to have inquired about them just before his firing, it is unclear if the ousted inspector general had been formally investigating the events.
this week, claiming not to have known Linick but saying that he was “happy to do it” all the same because he was appointed by, who has been the target of tired and baseless partisan attacks from the president in recent weeks. “They asked me to terminate him,” Trump said, referring to Pompeo’s State Department and Linick. “I have the absolute right, as president, to terminate. I’ve said, ‘Who appointed him?’ And they said, ‘President Obama.’ I said, ‘Look, I’ll terminate him.
A senior White House official told NBC News that Trump “would have fired Pompeo months ago” if he had been aware of his secretary of state’s conduct, but it’s hard to imagine that’s true. Early administration officials likehad been forced out when it became clear that swirling questions about their ethics weren’t going away. But Trump has never actually cared about such grifts and wastes of taxpayer dollars and conflicts of interest——and has only grown bolder in recent months.
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