In 2018, Mike Pompeo was welcomed to the U.S. State Department with open arms by diplomats eager for a secretary who wanted to engage with them and boasted a close personal relationship with the president. Now that very relationship with the White House – and the Ukraine-related impeachment inquiry that is tangled up in it – is driving a wedge between career foreign service officials and a secretary of state who appears to be halfway out the door and possibly eyeing his own future political career.
Foreign Policy: Fear and loathing at Pompeo’s state department
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 2, 2018, US President Donald Trump watches Mike Pompeo speak during his ceremonial swearing-in as US Secretary of State at the State Department in Washington, DC.
