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Mike Pompeo
tremendous content
Jan. 24, 2023
Did Trump Really Teach ‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong-un About Elton John? Trump and Pompeo’s claims about their 2018 meeting with the North Korean dictator don’t totally check out. But it’s still a good story.
Trump’s 2024 Veepstakes Is Already Under Way The former president will probably choose someone unlikely to burnish his own self-image of indispensability as his next running mate.
middle east
Aug. 18, 2021
vision 2024
July 21, 2021
Has Trump Spoiled the GOP for More Rational Leaders? If Trump doesn’t run in 2024, other Republican presidential contenders will have a hard time rivaling his unique demagogic appeal.
2024 presidential election
Apr. 12, 2021
Nikki Haley Says She’ll Back Trump If He Runs in 2024 The GOP’s shrewdest presidential hopeful has quickly abandoned her earlier criticism of Trump and gotten back in line.
Pompeo Cracks Very Unfunny Joke About Trump Second Term The secretary of State slipped in a badly timed laugh line as he joined with Republicans in questioning the results of the election.
foreign policy
Oct. 10, 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan Are at War. Does President Trump Even Know? As the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict threatens to escalate into a proxy war between Russia and Turkey, the once-influential U.S. sits on the sidelines.
vision 2020
Sept. 24, 2020
Pompeo’s Swing-State Appearances Look a Lot Like Campaigning for Trump The secretary of State has been touting the president’s agenda in key battlegrounds, violating norms and possibly the Hatch Act.
What’s Going on With Trump’s TikTok Ban and the Microsoft Deal? As TikTok users continue to hold their looped breath, Microsoft is again trying to acquire the app after dealing with some Trump-prompted confusion.
2020 elections
June 28, 2020
Biden’s Surge Could Flip the Senate — and Boost His Presidency A rising tide from the top of the ticket may lift Democrats to control of the Senate, which would make a successful Biden administration more likely.
inspector general purge
May 20, 2020
Pompeo Says IG Should Have Been Fired ‘Some Time Ago’ But Won’t Say Why The secretary of state denies that he was retaliating against the inspector general, who was reportedly investigating him over multiple issues.
Fired Inspector General Was Also Investigating Pompeo’s Saudi Arms Sale Pompeo claims he did not know inspector general Steve Linick was investigating him. Trump says he only needed to hear that Obama appointed him.
coronavirus
Mar. 25, 2020
U.S. Foils G7 Consensus by Insisting on the Term ‘Wuhan Virus’: Report The Trump administration has again stymied the plans of the annual G7 — this time by teleconference.
50 U.S. Troops Diagnosed With Brain Injuries As a Result of Iran Strikes Last week, Trump dismissed the soldiers’ injuries as “headaches” that were “not very serious.”
the national interest
Jan. 25, 2020
Mike Pompeo Isn’t Riding to the Rescue in Kansas Trump’s other Kansas buddy, Kris Kobach, could well blow another statewide election for Republicans, one that could even lose them Senate control.
Mike Pompeo: Expected Iranian Retaliation Is Just a ‘Little Noise’ It’s already pretty noisy: Since Soleimani’s death, Iran withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iraq wants U.S. forces out, and the U.S. expects retaliation.
Trump’s Israeli Settlement Reversal Is About What’s Good for Him, Not the Law There’s scant evidence that the U.S. examined “all sides of the legal debate,” but altering the longstanding policy has domestic advantages for Trump.
the national circus
Oct. 3, 2019
Frank Rich: Trump’s Wrecking-Ball Impeachment Defense His brand is chaos. What does that look like when our very constitutional order is at stake?
Trump May Tap Pompeo to Pull Double Duty as National Security Adviser: Report If Pompeo replaces Bolton, it wouldn’t be the first time one man served as secretary of State and national security adviser simultaneously.
palace intrigue
May 22, 2019
John Bolton Is Trying to Run a One-Man State Department: Report Both Mike Pompeo and President Trump are reportedly frustrated with the national security adviser overstepping his bounds.
foreign policy
May 19, 2019
Trump Makes Needless Threat to ‘End’ Iran It seems to have been prompted by a Fox News segment on his administration’s ramped-up tensions with the country.
With Mattis Gone, Trump Is Already Sowing More Global Chaos In just a few weeks, we’ve seen a serious uptick in odd U.S. foreign policy moves and anonymous leaking, and that isn’t good for anyone except Putin.
Trump Is Facing a Real Crisis — But It’s in Syria, Not at Our Border Bolton and Pompeo were supposed to clear up confusion over troop withdrawal from Syria. Instead, the U.S. appears to have two contradictory policies.
Heather Nauert Won’t Be in Trump’s Cabinet Because She Has No Clout The new U.N. ambassador won’t be in the Cabinet because she doesn’t have the résumé. The practice predates Trump.
Pat Robertson Cares More About a Saudi Weapons Deal Than a Journalist’s Murder In comments on Jamal Khashoggi’s apparent murder, the Christian-right warhorse revealed he can no longer distinguish God’s will from Donald Trump’s.
the white house
Oct. 10, 2018
My Private Oval Office Press Conference With Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and Kelly The president really wanted to convince me that he isn’t going to fire his chief of staff, John Kelly. He didn’t — but, wow…
foreign policy
Sept. 20, 2018
Pompeo Prioritizes Arms Sales Over Civilian Lives in Yemen After he was warned about jeopardizing weapons sales, the secretary of State overruled experts who said Saudi Arabia isn’t keeping civilians safe.
north korea
Sept. 20, 2018
state department
Sept. 19, 2018
Mike Pompeo Has Launched a War on Misplaced Commas The secretary of state is apparently a stickler for proper punctuation.
immigration
Sept. 17, 2018
Last Year’s Refugee Cap Was the Lowest Ever. Trump Just Cut It By a Third. The U.S. let nearly eight times as many refugees come in during 1980 as it will in the next year.
foreign policy
Sept. 12, 2018
Pompeo: Saudis Are Definitely Trying to Commit Fewer Mass Murders in Yemen Pompeo’s certification clears the way for the U.S. to continue abetting a Saudi-led intervention, which has already killed thousands of civilians.
north korea
Aug. 24, 2018
Trump Just Admitted That North Korea Isn’t Actually Denuclearizing The president called off Mike Pompeo’s trip to North Korea, citing a lack of progress on denuclearization.
5 Takeaways and One Surprise From Mike Pompeo’s Congressional Testimony The secretary of State appeared before Congress to answer questions for the first time since the NATO and Helsinki summits.
foreign policy
July 23, 2018
Trump Slowly Realizing It’s North Korea’s Reality Show, Not His The president is getting frustrated about North Korea’s continued obfuscation as his fake peace deal with Kim Jong-un falls apart.
Kim Jong-un Blew Off Mike Pompeo to Visit a Potato Farm The North Korean leader was too busy looking over spuds and counting tractors to meet with Pompeo last weekend.
North Korea Calls U.S. Diplomatic Posture ‘Regrettable’ It turns out that getting the country to discard its nukes probably won’t be so easy — shocking no one who has been paying attention.
Mike Pompeo Will Give Kim Jong-un Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ on CD In their first meeting, the North Korean dictator told Trump he hadn’t heard the song that inspired Trump’s nickname for Kim.
foreign policy
June 14, 2018
Pompeo Tries to Clean Up Trump’s Messy Claims About North Korea Summit While the president was hazy on timeframes, Pompeo offered a clearer (yet unrealistic) aim: “major disarmament” by the end of Trump’s first term.
foreign policy
May 22, 2018
Trump Pushes a New International Order Based on U.S. Bullying The administration thinks military might, and threatening to use it, are key. Iran and North Korea developments show the plan is off to a shaky start.
foreign policy
May 13, 2018
Pompeo Says North Korea Will Get Americans Instead of Aid The Trump administration apparently thinks the communist nation will accept capitalism in exchange for its nukes.
foreign policy
May 9, 2018
Pompeo Is Returning From North Korea With U.S. Captives Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim, and Kim Dong-chul have been freed.
Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary of State, With Seven Democratic Votes Once Trump and Pompeo brought Rand Paul around, the hawkish CIA director’s confirmation was inevitable.
Samantha Bee Provides a Thorough Introduction to ‘Racist Warmongering […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee offers up a comprehensive introduction to CIA director and Trump’s nominee for […]
Rand Paul Will Vote to Confirm Pompeo (and His Own Fraudulence) The senator has decided to pretend that Trump’s hawkish pick for secretary of State is a secret libertarian isolationist.
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