Mike Pompeo’s escape plan just completely blew up in his face
Last night Mike Pompeo had his friends leak to the media that he’s spent the past few weeks telling them that he’s going to resign as Secretary of State. Pompeo let it be known that he thinks Donald Trump’s scandals are weighing him down, and so he’s going to quit and run for U.S. Senate in Kansas in 2020. Then today happened.
The notion of Mike Pompeo of running for Senate, while he’s in the midst of a criminal scandal that’s going to eventually put him in prison, was already delusionally comical. Then Gordon Sondland publicly testified today, and made crystal clear that Donald Trump and Pompeo (among others) are as guilty as can be.
It created a situation where the headlines about Pompeo’s plan to resign were cascading across social media today, even as Sondland was on television explaining how incredibly guilty Pompeo was. It gave the appearance that Pompeo was running away from the scandal. In fact, when Pompeo held a press conference this afternoon as part of a diplomatic trip, it left people thinking he was about to announce his resignation in response to Sondland’s testimony.
As of this evening, Mike Pompeo still hasn’t resigned. In fact he can’t really resign tonight or tomorrow, because it’ll cement the appearance that he’s trying to run from the Ukraine criminal scandal. The thing is, the pressure is unlikely to let up on him. And of course Pompeo can’t even come close to kicking off a quixotic Senate campaign right after Sondland buried him for all to see. Pompeo should have gotten out while he still could. He was never going to the Senate. But now he’s going to prison.
