Rudy Giuliani just threw Mike Pompeo all the way under the bus
Rudy Giuliani has decided, for whatever reason, that the only way to save himself is to take the State Department down with him. If that doesn’t make sense to you, hey, this is Rudy we’re talking about. He’s been trying to take down Kurt Volker (who’s testifying against him as we speak) and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo all week. Now Rudy is throwing Pompeo all the way under the bus.
Yesterday the State Department Inspector General informed Congress that someone had slipped a bunch of laughably illegitimate “evidence” of pro-Trump conspiracy theories into the State Department. The IG felt Congress should know that someone was trying to plant this garbage. Rudy Giuliani then immediately confessed that he was the one who planted at least some of the documents. Now Rudy is making it worse.
Rudy went on CNN and claimed that after he planted these documents in the State Department, he got personal assurances from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Inspector General would investigate the scandals alleged in the documents. It turns out the IG went the other way and treated the documents themselves as scandalous. Now according to NBC News, Rudy is insisting that he didn’t just plant these documents somewhere in the State Department where they’d be found; he personally handed them directly to Pompeo.
If Rudy Giuliani can prove this, then Mike Pompeo is screwed. Pompeo’s only legal defense would be that he only took the documents from Rudy and gave them to the IG, because he wanted the IG to expose Rudy – and no one is going to buy that, even from a “reasonable doubt” perspective. It’s widely believed that Pompeo fired the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine based on the false claims made in these documents – which means he’s in trouble beyond words.
