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Mike Pompeo

Monday 3rd of November 2025

KS Republican Mike Pompeo's Pledge of Allegiance 2.0 I pledge allegiance to the millionaires and billionaires behind Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, and to their interests above all others, so help me God, come hell or high water. The Pledge of Allegiance 2.0 is the implicit pledge made by signing Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge © 2015 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Was there a quid pro quo? The answer is yes. … Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret. Gordon Sondland [“Everyone” includes Trump, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pompeo, Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton, who wanted no part of what he called a “drug deal”] © 2019 Kwiple.com
Rule of law Mr Linick is the fifth inspector general to be sacked in the past two months. “Someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner,” was how Mr Pompeo mocked the uproar. That is the language of impunity. Edward Luce, Financial Times, May 21, 2020 [Linick was investigating Pompeo for using State Department employees as his and his wife's gofers and for bypassing Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Pompeo asked Trump to fire Linick. Trump said he never heard of Linick but fired him anyway.] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's not that they like him, or care if he goes to jail. They are getting so much power out of this and they don't want it to stop. William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Secretary of State Pompeo. Mike Pompeo portrayed by Joe Biden, laughing and not commenting further © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mike Pompeo: Last in his class at West Point on ethics in leadership. Mike Pompeo portrayed by Thomas L. Friedman, after it was revealed that Pompeo, as Secretary of State, participated in a smear campaign to remove Marie Yovanovitch, ambassador to Ukraine, because she would block Trump's attempt to bribe Ukraine's president © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible. Mike Pompeo, when asked, “Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I know some people in the media will break out the pitchforks when they hear that I ask God for direction in my work. I'm proud to say that President Trump has let our State Department do that. Indeed, he has demanded that we do.  Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. Mike Pompeo, explaining why he won't let officials in the State Department participate in the transition to the Biden administration © 2020 Kwiple.com