Mike Pompeo to address foreign policy in Bushnell speech

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Pompeo to speak in Bushnell while he's of key interest in impeachment hearings

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is coming to the Sumter County Fairgrounds Thursday for what the Department of State says will be official remarks  on U.S. foreign policy.

Pompeo is scheduled to deliver his address at 4 p.m. Thursday. The event is open to the public, and admission is free. The doors open at 2:00 p.m. and close at 3:30 p.m.

The visit is an official government event. It is, however, being widely promoted by groups supporting Trump’s 2020 reelection efforts, such as the Villagers for Trump Club. The Villages are about 20 miles north of the fairgrounds, while Orlando is about 50 miles away and Tampa about 60 miles.

Pompeo has served as President Donald Trump‘s second Secretary of State since being confirmed in April, 2018. Prior to that Pompeo also a Trump’s first CIA director. Prior to that, he served most of four terms in Congress, hailing Kansas.

Consequently, for more than three years he’s been at the forefront of U.S. foreign policymaking for all of the difficult challenges, ranging from North Korea to Iran, Russia to China, and from the Middle East to Venezuela.

He also has been fingered by several witnesses in the impeachment proceedings of Trump as a key player in American dealings with Ukraine that led to the impeachment trial that begins Tuesday and likely still will be underway Thursday. In recent days he’s been under pressure to respond to expanded reports that Trump’s private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates essentially stalked U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch last year, seeking to dig dirt on her while she reported to Pompeo.  Democrats have expressed their interest to subpoena him if the Senate Republicans, led by Senate President Mitch McConnell, agree to hear witnesses in the impeachment trial.

Last fall there were reports which so far have turned out to be unrealized that Pompeo was planning to resign and run for the U.S. Senate in Kansas. Pompeo has repeatedly said he has no intention of running.

Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].


One comment

  • Sonja Emily Fitch

    January 21, 2020 at 5:59 am

    Pompeo is a damn liar and enabler of the impeached trump to undermine our national security. Pompeo is corrupt and smells of the lies and perversion of the traitor and impeached trump. Stay as far away from this corruption as possible. Pompeo is desperate to distract for his own problems and the aiding and abetting of the impeached trump. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS LIAR AND TRAITOR.

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