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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr have suddenly found themselves sharing center stage in Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry. Thanks in no small part to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani throwing administration officials under the bus on every available TV network over the last several days, the world now knows that Pompeo and Barr are in this thing up to their beady little eyeballs.
What began with a whistleblower report regarding a phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump angled for dirt on Joe Biden’s son to use in the 2020 campaign, has swelled into a scandal that is dragging the State and Justice Departments deeper and deeper into the mud pit.
The whistleblower report, which Trump voluntarily released, confirmed the contents of a summary transcript of the Ukraine phone call, which Trump also voluntarily released. On that call, Trump pushed Zelensky to work with Barr and Giuliani on the dirt-digging expedition. As damaging as the call transcript already is, new reports suggest the document may have been altered to obscure even more damning revelations.
“I will have — the White House will have to explain,” said Pompeo. “They — they — you know, Martha, they — we don’t release transcripts very often. It’s the — it’s the rare case. Those are private conversations between world leaders. And it wouldn’t be appropriate to do so, except in — in the most extreme circumstances. There’s — there’s — there’s no — there’s no evidence that that would be appropriate here at this point.
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