Pompeo Sticks Even Closer to Trump as Impeachment Crisis Grows
- Top diplomat caught between defending president or his staff
- Trump’s endorsement would ‘seal’ Senate seat if Pompeo runs
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Michael Pompeo has emerged as one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent defenders even as the Ukraine controversy in Washington threatens to engulf the secretary of state -- and his political future.
Pompeo, the last remaining member of Trump’s original national security team, has made clear he will fight what he calls congressional overreach by Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry who are demanding documents and testimony from the diplomats who work for him. And he’s said that the president did nothing wrong when he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter on a July 25 phone call.