Mike Pompeo: Trump told me ‘shut the hell up’ about China COVID secrecy

nypost.com ^ | 2/19/2023 | Steven Nelson

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Is there ANYONE in this government who doesn't whore themselves out to the left for a freakin' buck???

[MtnClimber]

Do I believe hm....NOOO!

[Nifty]

And whats wrong with telling a subordinate to shut the hell up?

[rktman]

Mike, SHUT UP! Now you can add me to the list of folks THAT tells you to STFU!

[EEGator]

You’re clearly not a manager in the civilian world.

[L,TOWM]

Us 80’s kids that listened to Don Henley’s “Smugglers Blues” know the answer to that one... short answer.... NO.

“Its the lure of easy money,
Its got a very strong appeal”

[Gene Eric]

embellishing no doubt

[1Old Pro]

Can’t trust Pompeo to keep what should be confidential conversation quiet. Thus, I wouldn’t hire him for anything serious.

[MayflowerMadam]

Glenn Frey, I think.

Love that song.

[pax_et_bonum]

Wondering if he lost weight because he wants to run for President.

🧐

[monkeyshine]

I believe him. Trump was POTUS. He gets to set policy. He’s the one leading negotiations. It was a very tenuous time - Trump had slapped trade sanctions on Chinese goods; and then banned travel, and there was a Pandemic. POTUS absolutely has the right and perhaps obligation to tell his SOS to “shut the hell up for a while” while POTUS grapples with sensitive issues involving foreign governments, trade, travel and other policy issues - especially if the SOS is speaking out of turn or off the cuff.

Personally I see nothing wrong here. If Pompeo is trying to get my sympathy he didn’t. If he’s trying to make Trump look bad he didn’t. All of this is part of the job(s).

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Does the left do this to people like Clinton, Obama or Biden? I could be wrong but I can’t think of one book where someone who worked for Clinton, Obama or Biden put out a book backstabbing any of them. Yet we got every last person who ever worked for Trump, people even remotely connected to Trump putting out books bashing him AND do I even have to guess as 2024 comes closer the books are going to be flooding out? Drives me nuts because the REAL crooks are left alone!

[aspasia]

Ah, Mike, the cock crows for thee.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What if he were actually telling the truth here?

[Golden Eagle]

Trump allegedly told Pompeo he was “putting us all at risk” by upsetting Xi

Interesting.

[Yo-Yo]

Trump is a businessman first, so he understands that when you find yourself in the middle of a pandemic, and most of your personal protection equipment and medications come from one source, job #1 is to make sure you don't do anything to jeopardize your ability to continue to receive those vital supplies.

There is always time later to make sure you're never in that situation again by diversifying your supply chains, but in the moment you can't afford to p!$$ off your only source of life-saving equipment and drugs.

[for-q-clinton]

I do..this one actually sounds very plausible and within Trump’s nature to worry about the deal.

[mass55th]

What total horse shit. Back in April 2020, Fox News reported that Trump "earlier speculated about whether China knew about the virus sooner than it has led on and withheld information about the outbreak." Trump early-on called it the China Virus and Kung Flu, and was chastised by the media and Democrats. He never stopped blaming China, and said he'd seen proof that the virus came from the Wuhan Lab.

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[one guy in new jersey]

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark!

[PMAS]

This is what happens when all of your PPE supplies and critical medicines are only Made in China