The career of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who could run for a seat in the Senate in 2020 and for the White House in 2024, is likely to be stained or compromised by the "vice" of using escort agents to attend to personal matters. Like taking your dog for a walk or grooming, going to the laundry room or picking up takeaway orders from the restaurant.
It is on these and other episodes that Steve Linick, the inspector general of the State Department torpedoed in recent days by Donald Trump, was investigating at the request of Pompeo himself, according to sources in the New York Times. Now the Democrats want to see us clearly and ascertain if it is one of the purges of the tycoon to silence a scandal that would cripple one of its most loyal allies and embarrass the president himself.
That is why Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Commission, and Bob Menendez, the highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate commission itself, launched an investigation into Congress and wrote a letter to the White House, the State Department and all Linick's office, asking to keep and deliver all the documents related to the affair.
According to CNN, meanwhile, the Trump administration is also preparing to replace the prosecutor of the capital Tim Shea, who managed the controversial moves of the final phase of Russiagate against Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, two close allies of the tycoon. On the other hand, Justice Minister William Barr has ruled out, at least for now, the opening of a criminal investigation against former President Barack Obama and former deputy Joe Biden, accused by Trump of plotting against him.
