US State Department denies Pompeo’s intention to resign
Baghdad Today – US State Department spokesman Morgan Ortacus has denied reports in the US media that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to resign.
The US media, published news that the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo told three officials that he intends to resign from his position, and that he intends to run for the Senate from Kansas.
The Time magazine, which originally published the news, cited three Republican officials, without mentioning their names, one in the administration of President Donald Trump, the other in the government, and the third, a former employee who rotated several positions in US government.
Pompeo had intended to stay until the spring of 2020 as US secretary of state, but the US media said he may “come after looking for a way out of the crisis.”
In the event of the resignation of the Secretary of State, he will be the 70th official to resign from the Trump administration, where the figure includes officials who have been dismissed by the US president himself.