MikePompeo-State Dept. Briefing 20 May 2020

Pompeo on firing of State Department IG and Chinese government

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=rl83HzABYFo&feature=emb_logo    20 mins

https://republicanpost.net/mike-pompeo-slaps-dem-senator-with-his-own-history-of-problems-with-the-law/

In response, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) launched an investigation into Linick’s firing, saying “it may be an illegal act of retaliation.”
Pompeo addressed questions surrounding Linick during a press conference on Wednesday, acknowledging, “I recommended to the president that Steve Linick be terminated. Frankly, should’ve done it some time ago.”
The secretary of state told reporters, “This is all coming through the office of Sen. Menendez. I don’t get my ethics guidance from a man who was criminally prosecuted. Case number 15-155.”
Sen. Menendez was charged during the Obama administration with conspiracy, bribery, and honest services fraud and accused of abusing the power of his office. A federal judge declared a mistrial in the case in 2017, and the New Jersey Democrat was subsequently reelected.