Posted on 01/19/2023 12:25:12 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Mike Pompeo: Trump told me ‘shut the hell up’ about China COVID secrecy
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleges in an explosive new memoir that former President Donald Trump told him to “shut the hell up for a while” about China hiding early COVID-19 pandemic information — after Chinese President Xi Jinping said it was a sore topic.
Pompeo writes that Xi was furious about the top US diplomat’s criticism of Beijing’s non-transparency at a March 25, 2020, State Department press conference and asked Trump during a March 26 call to silence him.
Xi told Trump that Pompeo was putting at risk the “phase one” trade deal that the two leaders had brokered that January, according to Semafor, which obtained part of Pompeo’s “Never Give An Inch” ahead of its Jan. 24 release.
“My Mike, that f–ing guy hates you!” Trump exclaimed after the call, according to Pompeo, who was listening in on the conversation.
Days later, Trump allegedly told Pompeo he was “putting us all at risk” by upsetting Xi because the US needed personal protective equipment from China.
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And Trump said Poopy Head in the 1st grade so your point is?
Pompeo is emerging as the most insufferable of all the Lilliputians.
You were free to resign.
Right. Did we give up when the Germans...
That list of people not to trust has grown very long… Add Pompeo to it… I think the Trump administration had the worst turnover of high-level aides of any President’s administration, but we know the problem couldn’t POSSIBLY be Trump but would have to be with all these hundreds of other people who came in, most with solid creds we’ve never questioned, only to leave and move on. Nope. No problem at all here.
Telling your chief diplomat to quit undermining diplomacy is outrageous? That is quite a bit different from telling everyone what to say or not say.
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