How dare you ask Mike Pompeo that question?

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How dare you ask Mike Pompeo that question?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/17/how-dare-you-ask-mike-pompeo-that-question/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0f7fb1547f38


June 17 at 12:51 PM

Perhaps nobody in President Trump’s Cabinet has shown a talent for remaining in his good graces like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. ...................

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Pompeo engaged in a tense back-and-forth this weekend with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace after Wallace had the temerity to ask him about Trump saying he might accept dirt on political opponents from foreign governments like Russia.

“Is accepting oppo research from a foreign government right or wrong?” Wallace asked

Pompeo shot back: “Chris, you asked me not to call any of your questions today ridiculous. You came really close right there. President Trump has been very clear. He clarified his remarks later. He made it very clear. Even in his first comments, he said, ‘I’d do both.’ He said he’d call the FBI.”


Except that’s … not what Trump said. He said he might call the FBI if he felt something was “wrong.” He later cleaned that up, but his initial comments were clear that he didn’t think you call the FBI for stuff like that.

When Wallace pointed that out and called it a walk-back, Pompeo again disagreed with what is plain reality. “He didn’t walk it back, Chris.” Then Pompeo concluded with this: “I have nothing further to add. I came on to talk about foreign policy, and I think [this is] the third time you’ve asked me about a Washington piece of silliness.”

It was merely the latest example of Pompeo going on offense against such “silliness” — despite .........................


Last month, in another interview with Wallace, Pompeo took issue with Wallace asking him about why Trump hadn’t gotten tougher with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ...................................

[demtenjeep]

1. I can speak first hand to the "assholeness" of pompous pompeo

when he was running for his first term for Kansas Rep, he would go to all the 4th of July parades and hand his shit out -pencils, brochures and the like

He came to my group, he gave my sister and brother in law his stuff and shook their hands. I on the other hand was wearing a "friends don't let friends vote republicans" I was standing in between my sister and her husband and he totally ignored me -intentionally. It was obvious to everyone in our group so my sister gave him the stuff back and he got really huffy