Mike Pompeo made at least 4 significantly misleading statements about his role in the Trump Ukraine phone call

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• Secretary of State Pompeo made at least four misleading statements in recent days about his knowledge of the contents of a whistleblower's complaint about a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Pompeo was unequivocal at first that because he hadn't seen the complaint, he couldn't comment on the substance of the call.
• But it eventually surfaced that Pompeo was a direct participant in the phone call, a revelation that raised new questions about his earlier denials, as well as his assertions that neither he, nor other State Department employees, did anything wrong.
• Pompeo's role isn't limited to his involvement in the call; the State Department's inspector general, Steve Linick, requested an "urgent" briefing on Capitol Hill this week to "discuss and provide staff with copies of documents related to the State Department and Ukraine."
• PBS News reported shortly before Linick's testimony on Wednesday that it will center around "retaliation against State Department officials who are trying to cooperate with House Democrats."
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was unequivocal: he hadn't seen a whistleblower's complaint about a July phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, so he couldn't comment on the content of the conversation.

But Pompeo left out a critical detail: he was a participant in the conversation.

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