Trump notifies House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi that he plans to dismiss State Department Inspector General Steve Linick Donald Trump's move to fire a government watchdog reportedly investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo amounted to a potentially illegal act of retribution, according to senior Democrats leading an angry backlash Saturday.
Trump notified House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi late Friday that he planned to dismiss State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
It was his third abrupt dismissal of an official tasked with monitoring governmental wrongdoing since April. Democrats denounced it as part of what they said was a troubling pattern of the president undermining the traditionally independent