A federal Special Counsel report said Pompeo, and 12 other senior Trump officials including Jared Kushner and David Friedman, had violated the Hatch Act.
Hosting the secretary of state on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar was a difficult decision. But the city’s head rabbi says it had enormous significance.
Officials told the Times that Israel’s leader dropped his public objections to the sale after a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem.