Volker quits

Kurt D. Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by President Trump and his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to find damaging information about Democrats, abruptly resigned his post on Friday.

Mr. Volker, who told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that he was stepping down, offered no public explanation but a person informed about his decision said he concluded that it was impossible to be effective in his assignment given the developments of recent days.

  NYT

That's rich.

His departure was the first resignation since revelations about Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats.

The first. The Times is expecting more.

Anybody left in the White House who doesn't realize the danger they are in simply by being connected to Donald Trump is an idiot. As is anybody who's been connected to Rudy in any way, because, like giving up Volker in a heartbeat, he'll rat on everybody.

Mr. Giuliani has seized on Mr. Volker’s call to him to assert that he was acting at the behest of the State Department. He said he spoke with Mr. Volker eight times and displayed the text messages on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News on Thursday night, calling on Mr. Volker to confirm that the department initiated contact.

“He should step forward and explain what he did,” Mr. Giuliani said on the show. “The whistle-blower falsely alleges that I was operating on my own. Well, I wasn’t operating on my own!”

Referring to Mr. Volker and Gordon Sandland, the ambassador to the European Union, Mr. Giuliani added: “They basically knew everything I was doing. So, it was being done with the authorization and at the request — and then I have a final one in which they — there is a big ‘thank you’ about how my honest and straightforward discussion led to solving a problem in the relationship.”

The Times means Gordon Sondland, and I have to guess they're expecting him to resigning soon, because he can't be effective in his assignment "given the developments of recent days."

We'll wait a little longer for Pompeo to fall on his sword.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.