Secretary of a State of Confusion
“We really need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to, and what our strategy is on a number of issues.”
Mike Pompeo came to Congress on Wednesday to brief members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Donald Trump’s recent summits with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. But the appearance turned into something far more fundamental and extraordinary: an investigation into whether, on foreign policy, the current president of the United States speaks for the U.S. government and U.S. officials like the secretary of state speak for the president. Senators of both parties questioned what the Trump administration stood for, and whether Trump and his administration stood in the same place.
“You come before a group of senators today who are filled with serious doubts about
