Weapons sold to Saudi Arabia at the heart of Steve Linick's dismissal?

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Did Donald Trump fire Steve Linick because he was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo? This Inspector General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was investigating complaints accusing Mike Pompeo of entrusting domestic tasks, notably taking out his dog, to an agent paid with taxpayer money. But he was also investigating, according to the Democratic opposition, on another subject, much more sensitive and political.

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" Here is a man (Mike Pompeo) who negotiates war and peace with major countries, and the democrats and the fake media are interested in the one who walks his dog ": this is how Donald Trump defended the dismissed Steve Linick , stating that he himself knew nothing about the reasons for his departure. In the same vein, Mike Pompeo said that the now ex-inspector general undermined the authority of the State Department, without explaining how.

For Democrats it does not pass, and for some Republicans either: because in three months it is the fourth time that the American president aims or dismisses a responsible in charge of investigating the government. This time the case is all the more serious since, according to the Democrats, Steve Linick was also working on another investigation, much more sensitive, on the emergency procedure invoked a year ago by Mike Pompeo to unblock, despite the opposition from Congress, more than eight billion dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

Suddenly, Nancy Pelosi, the president of the House of Representatives, sent a letter to Donald Trump to remind him that the law gives him thirty days to give the exact reason for this dismissal. And a Democrat MP has proposed a law limiting these sackings to proven facts.

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