Michael C. Bender and Vivian Salama at WSJ:
President Trump faces increasing public and private scrutiny from his own party over a series of recent White House moves, as the House impeachment inquiry reduces his margin for error with fellow Republicans and makes him more vulnerable to attacks.
In the past several days, Mr. Trump has been forced to drop plans to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Doral golf resort, and a top aide has tried to walk back comments linking Ukraine military aid to an investigation of the president’s political opponents. The fallout of Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria has continued to draw widespread criticism, including from Republicans.
Listen to Pompeo’s become answerless and silent.— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) October 20, 2019
He repeatedly refuses to answer @GStephanopoulos’s Q about the appropriateness of a quid-pro-quo. He says it’s a “hypothetical.”
Stephanopoulos: “The chief of said it did happen.”
Pompeo stares silently for 5 secs.
38 secs in https://t.co/cSWspkOXHd
Just spoke to SDF commander Gen Mazloum by telephone from his base in Syria: Mazloum asks that President Trump change his mind and leave US troops in Syria to continue anti ISIS mission. “The Turks already did ethnic cleansing in Afrin. Right now they continue ethnic cleansing.”— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 20, 2019
Just spoke to SDF commander Gen Mazloum by telephone from his base in Syria: Mazloum asks that President Trump change his mind and leave US troops in Syria to continue anti ISIS mission. “The Turks already did ethnic cleansing in Afrin. Right now they continue ethnic cleansing.”— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 20, 2019
The name of Trump's Secretary of Defense is Mark Esper. Not Esperanto. pic.twitter.com/LFrNf7zep3— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 20, 2019
