Posted on 01/05/2020 11:07:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Play Video Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered a curt response to a question about whether President Trump's impeachment makes him appear vulnerable on the world stage.
"You should ask Mr. Soleimani," Pompeo answered Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace this weekend.
"I understand that," Wallace said before asking again if Trump could be seen as weak by foreign nations as a result of Democrats seeking to remove him from office.
"I don't," Pompeo said. "Our adversaries understand that President Trump and our administration will do the right thing to protect the American people every place that we find risk."
House Democrats passed two articles of impeachment against Trump late last year: one for abuse of power and another for obstruction of Congress. A trial in the Republican-led Senate is expected in the coming weeks.
Trump's impeachment centers on his relations with Ukraine and a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump asked Zelensky to "do us a favor" and investigate corruption allegations against 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and his son's business dealings in the country. Crucial military aid to Ukraine, which is fighting off Russian aggression in the region, was temporarily held up.
Since impeachment passed in the House, Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani after the U.S. government received what Trump described as "very major" and credible intelligence that Soleimani was plotting to kill American diplomats and military personnel in the Middle East. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Soleimani led, has been designated an official terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
Pompeo said Sunday that American intelligence and military officials deemed there was "a great risk" to American lives if the United States did not take Soleimani out.
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Oh kristee wahhlis. CNN light.
General Salami is being chased around an aethereal tree by 72 Helen Thomases.
Wallace is a jackass who gets an answer and keeps asking the same question.
You know Pelosi is passing the word to Rocket Man, Putin and Iran that “Ignore Trump, he’ll be impeached, and when us Dems get back into power, the gravy train will start up again.”
Wallace is a hack for the DC establishment. His interviews are entirely predictable on that basis.
Hilarious! Thanks for posting.
I remember watching his dad on 60 minutes, when the guy was senile well past his expiration date - Mike Wallance would read questions handed to him by his staff and the when he got the answer, he'd raise an eyebrow so he looked skeptical, but I don't think he understood the question or the answer. It was just his schtick so he looked like a shrewd interviewer. After I figured that out, he was just pathetic to watch.
< Wallace is a jackass who gets an answer and keeps asking the same question. <
Like most of today’s so-called journalists, Wallace has an answer in mind before he even asks the question. And he will keep on asking until he gets the answer he wants.
Love Pompeo
It’s getting fun out there. I think this Gangsta approach is gonna pay dividends. Shoring up the Hispanic vote for sure. That’s straight outta a movie
Remember Nixon and the Yom Kippur war. Nixon resigning was not widely publish in China and the Soviet Union because they didn’t want the idea the strongest man in the world left office without war.
This is a polite way of saying “Go to Hell!”
No, you don't.
Yo, Chris, why don’t you ask Nanzi Pelosi if she thinks President Trump’s response was disproportionate, how many American lives are equal to one terrorist’s?
“I think this Gangsta approach is gonna pay dividends. Shoring up the Hispanic vote for sure. That’s straight outta a movie”
The Black vote as well. This is easily understandable if you realize how both Hispanics and Blacks despise weakness and admire “macho”. It is one reason they hate gays.
Who watches that greasy sleeze ball Wallace? Trump’s people ought to boycott hisshow.
Much like Jeffrey Epstein, Mr. Soleimani did not commit Suicide.
Queersam Salmonella did not commit suicide.
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