Violating a longstanding tradition
Pompeo is going to address the Republican convention later. Guess what Secretaries of State are not supposed to do.
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, will address the Republican national convention in pre-taped remarks from Jerusalem this week, violating a longstanding tradition that the country’s top diplomat avoid partisan politics, CNN has confirmed:
Well you see it’s not “improperly,” because he’s doing it and he decides what’s improper. MAGA!
Pompeo’s speech comes one month after he sent a cable to state department employees stating that “presidential and political appointees and career SES (Senior Executive Service) are subject to significant restrictions on their political activity; they may not engage in any partisan political activity in concert with a partisan campaign, political party, or partisan political group, even on personal time and outside of the federal workplace”, CNN noted.
Unless they really want to.
Even more hilariously, they’re saying he’s doing it as himself, not as Secretary of State.
Ohhhh cool that’s fine then. And Trump is speaking from the White House later this week not as president but just as Don from Queens, who just happened to have all this video equipment and access to the White House and odds and ends like that.
Well, what he really meant is that no employee will address the Democratic Convention or speak on behalf of Joe Biden. It’s okay if Trump and his supporters do it. The Trumps are above the law, or so I’m told (by the Trumps, of course).
The Trumps are not above the law. They are the law. How can anything be above what it is?
Omar, I often imagine Trump saying L’état, c’est moi – but in vulgar Queens English, of course.