Trump trashed new Pompeo aide as 'major loser'

[DonViejo]

Former WSJ editorial writer Mary Kissel, who recently took a senior State Department job, has repeatedly slammed Trump's foreign policy — and once even drew his ire on Twitter.

By ALEX THOMPSON and ELIANA JOHNSON 11/27/2018 08:29 PM EST

Mary Kissel often took a dim view of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. As a Wall Street Journal editorial writer, she tweeted about his “frightening ignorance,” criticized his approach on Syria and China, and said Putin “scored a great propaganda victory” at the Helsinki summit in July.

And Trump swatted back. After Kissel said in a March 2016 appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Trump has “no principles, he has no policies,” the president counter punched on Twitter. “Major loser!” then-candidate Trump wrote, adding that Kissel had “no clue!”

Now, Kissel is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s new senior adviser for policy and strategic messaging.

“We could not be more thrilled to have her on board,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a Nov. 15 statement announcing her arrival.

It is unclear whether the president — if he is even aware of Kissel’s arrival — feels the same way.

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