What did trump call what he was doing? Oh yea, "draining swamp"... State Department officials involved in the dinners said they had raised concerns internally that the events were essentially using federal resources to cultivate a donor and supporter base for Pompeo's political ambitions — complete with extensive contact information that gets sent back to Susan Pompeo's personal email address. The officials and others who attended discussed the dinners on condition of anonymity. An NBC News investigation found that Pompeo held about two dozen Madison Dinners since he took over in 2018. NBC News obtained a master guest list for every dinner through the end of 2019, as well as internal State Department calendars from before the pandemic emerged, showing that future dinners were on the books through at least October. The master list includes the names of nearly 500 invitees and specifies who accepted, although it is possible some people RSVP'd but didn't show up in Foggy Bottom for dinner. The records show that about 29 percent of the invitees came from the corporate world, while about a quarter of them hailed from the media or entertainment industries, with conservative media members heavily represented. About 30 percent work in politics or government, and just 14 percent were diplomats or foreign officials. Every single member of the House or the Senate who has been invited is a Republican.
Pompeo is setting himself up to run for President in 2024 not unless Trump loses in 2020 and runs again in 2024.
What he thinks. If Trump wins in November, he's not just going to hand over the nomination to a Republican who came up the ranks in the normal corrupt way that Pomeo did. It's 100% guaranteed that Trump's name will be at the top of the ticket in 2024 even if he's not technically running for president. Even if Ivanka or Don Jr. are at the top of the ticket, Don Sr. will still be running the show. Make no mistake about it. Pompeo isn't going to be a presidential candidate for the party of Trump unless Trump is beat in November, and has no power left in politics.
This is the same as that EPA guy flying with private jets on our dime or Mnuchin's wife not keeping her (camera) flappers shut with their filthy lifestyle of wealth and political prestige. Three years in and too many crony scandals of SWAMP excess to remember. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
