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Secretary of State Pompeo Calls Impeachment Inquiry “Silly Gotcha Game”

HeadlineOct 07, 2019

This comes as top Trump administration officials continue efforts to stonewall the investigation. On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo missed a deadline to comply with a House subpoena to produce documents related to the impeachment inquiry. During a public event in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, Secretary Pompeo admitted he was listening in on the now-infamous July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But he called the impeachment inquiry a “silly gotcha game.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “When the world doesn’t focus on the things that are right, the things that matter, the things that impact real people’s lives, and instead you get caught up in some silly 'gotcha' game, you see, that’s not healthy. That doesn’t help democracies flourish. It doesn’t help grow economies.”

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