“He’s made the Faustian bargain and understands the terms: As long as Trump’s in charge, the only thing that matters is hewing to the Trump view”
But sources I interviewed for this piece stressed that any good will Pompeo inherited by virtue of not being Tillerson has largely evaporated within Foggy Bottom as the details of Yovanovitch’s unceremonious ouster and his complicity in Giuliani’s scheme have been exposed. The former administration official described this sentiment as “pervasive” within the diplomatic ranks.
How this diplomatic discontent is presenting inside the Harry S. Truman building and at embassies across the globe varies depending on a diplomat’s rung on the ladder, the former ambassador explained. “The mid-level, more junior people are much more honest and can’t stand him,” they told me. “The remaining seniors are basically people who are either hoping to stay hidden until Trump is gone or are craven or complicit and trying to get a next ambassadorship.
But there is a deep sense that Pompeo’s tenure is untenable. “There are active conversations about when he will go,”a former foreign service officer, told me. This view is cemented now that the State Department hasto turn over records of all the communications between Pompeo and Giuliani by November 22. And the undertones of Pompeo’s latest jaunt to Kansas are not lost on anyone.
The impeachment inquiry has revealed Pompeo’s lip service about “swagger” and buttressing the foreign service was exactly that—lip service. Pompeo is an object lesson in that no matter how low the bar is set, one can still trip over it.
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