Do I believe hm....NOOO!
embellishing no doubt
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).
What if he were actually telling the truth here?
I do..this one actually sounds very plausible and within Trump’s nature to worry about the deal.
I’ll put my flame suit on for this. But for a time when Trump was President, I was “into” Q. I thought it was interesting, and some of it rang true, although a lot of it was like, “huh??
Anyway, I do remember a group of Q postings that dealt with this very thing. Not Trump telling Pompeo to “shut the hell up”, but rather that the administration knew that China was intimately involved, but was purposely keeping silent about it because pushing China on it could lead to global war, or something like that.
That’s what I’m remembering, and I’m sticking to it.