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spanone

(135,830 posts)
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 11:21 AM Feb 2019

Yesterday Pompeo said the 'president' didn't say what the 'president' said....

THEY. ALL. LIE.

"Do you think North Korea remains a nuclear threat?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked Pompeo Sunday on "State of the Union."

"Yes," Pompeo replied.

"But the President said he doesn't," Tapper said.

"That's not what he said ... I know precisely what he said," Pompeo said.

"He tweeted: 'There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea,'" Tapper said.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/24/politics/mike-pompeo-trump-north-korea-cnntv/index.html
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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Then Pompeo launches into an extended explanation of what Trump "meant"
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 12:06 PM
Feb 2019

No Mike, we can read his tweet just fine. It says, "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea." 10 words. Easy peasy. Certainly it communicated what he wanted to say at the moment he tweeted it. It was quite useful for a news cycle. Now you want to backpedal, dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. But the tweet's still there. Embarrassing, I should think.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
11. Anyone who agrees to be in this administration is just as bad as Trump.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:50 PM
Feb 2019

Pompeo is a fat lying slob. Sorry if that is politically incorrect.

erronis

(15,241 posts)
5. The apocalypse won't be what they think. No wet dreams or anything else
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:18 PM
Feb 2019

for millions of years as Earth tries to recover from that nasty infection of primates.

Besides, the image of Pompeo and wet dreams is almost as bad as dump dumping his fat ass full of budgers and cancer-sodas.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
6. Citizens, just eat your Soylent Green and shut up.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:25 PM
Feb 2019

I didn't say what I just said. Neither did Donald J God Almighty. And truth isn't truth.

calimary

(81,238 posts)
9. NO ONE should be surprised by this.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:43 PM
Feb 2019

Maybe in the very beginning. MAYBE. But by now?there’s absolutely NO excuse.

spanone

(135,830 posts)
10. No surprise. We must never let their lies go unchallenged. EVER.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:48 PM
Feb 2019

this is some blatant lying shit.

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
13. Exactly. Politeness or willful idiocy takes over and the press gives them a pass.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:16 PM
Feb 2019

Just once, I want them to tell it like it is. "Why do you have to walk back what the pResident actually said?"

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