It has been a given, and still is, that the Republicans will acquit the genius, but if recent events are any indication, it may also be the case that they see the walls pressing in upon them, no matter what they do.
Today, we all learned that there’s a tape in which Trump’s obvious lie about not knowing Lev Parnas is convincingly disproven and in which Trump appears to be ordering that Ambassador Yovanovitch be physically harmed, if not killed. Mike Pompeo had an interview on NPR with reporter Mary Louise Kelly that he walked out on because Kelly asked him a non-Fox like question: what specifically did you do to protect Yovanovitch. He followed that up as follows:
Here’s what Kelly says happened after the interview: “I was taken to the Secretary’s private living room where he was waiting and where he shouted at me for about same amount of time as the interview itself. He was not happy to have been questioned about Ukraine … He used the F-word in that sentence and many others.” Pompeo then told Kelly that “People will hear about this,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.
So now we’ve got the Secretary of State taking a reporter into a private room, screaming and cursing at her for an extended period, shoving a map in her face, and threatening some form of retaliation against her – all because she dared to ask him a question he didn’t like during an interview. Not only has Pompeo snapped, he now appears to be an immediate danger to himself and others. Law enforcement should take him into custody immediately.
That kind of behavior would appear to be that of a person in panic mode. I’m not an optimist when it comes to political trends in this country, but this does give one reason to hope that Pompeo’s behavior is reflective of a certain level of consternation in Republican ranks generally.
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