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Pompeo violated ethics rules by asking State Dept employees to do personal tasks like pet care
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated federal ethics rules governing the use of taxpayer-funded resources when he, and his wife, asked State Department employees to carry out personal tasks more than 100 times, a government watchdog said in a report on Friday.
Pompeo, who was former President Donald Trump’s last secretary of state, served until Jan. 20, when Republican Trump left the office after being defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in the November election. Pompeo is seen as among a handful of Republicans with presidential ambitions for 2024, even though the former top diplomat has not confirmed that.
Pompeo and his wife asked a political appointee and other employees in his office to carry out tasks such as
“picking up personal items, planning events unrelated to the Department’s mission,
and conducting such personal business as pet care and mailing personal Christmas cards,” the State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in the report.
“The Pompeos made over 100 requests to employees in the office of the secretary to conduct work that appeared to be personal in nature,” the report, which can be found HERE, said.
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Among the incidents detailed in the report were a request from Susan Pompeo for an aide to
The socialist left cannot abide anyone that has done a good job under the Trump Administration. Since Biden Administration took over foreign affairs, they became the laughing stock of the world. All Biden did was criticize Hungary, and that was idiotic.