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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Aug 20, 2019, 06:44 PM Aug 2019

Pompeo defends loyalty to Trump amid past comments, renewed scrutiny

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday defended his relationship with President Donald Trump amid fresh interest in his biting critiques of then-candidate Trump during the 2016 presidential race and renewed scrutiny of his ferocious loyalty to the president.

While Pompeo says he will remain as the top U.S. diplomat for as long as Trump wants, many supporters and critics see the 55-year old former congressman and CIA director as charting his own political future that will likely include a presidential campaign of his own down the road.

In 2016, Pompeo was a Tea Party conservative serving in the House of Representatives, known best for his pugnacious role sparring with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings. He was also an ardent opponent of Trump and a supporter of Sen. Marco Rubio.

His stance was widely known. But in a March 2016 video published by the New Yorker magazine Monday, Pompeo is seen blasting Trump ahead of the Kansas primary and comparing him to President Barack Obama: "We've spent seven and a half years with an authoritarian president who ignored our Constitution. We don't need four more years of that."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pompeo-defends-loyalty-to-trump-amid-past-comments-renewed-scrutiny/ar-AAG4KM7?li=BBnb7Kz

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Pompeo defends loyalty to Trump amid past comments, renewed scrutiny (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 OP
Pompeo proves he just a gigolo... Wounded Bear Aug 2019 #1
Another childhood abuse victim, perhaps? pangaia Aug 2019 #2
The only reason he was hired is because Rump thought he was Pompeo Posar. Buns_of_Fire Aug 2019 #3
They are leeches....all his sycophants....leeches. spanone Aug 2019 #4

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)
3. The only reason he was hired is because Rump thought he was Pompeo Posar.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:17 PM
Aug 2019
Pompeo Posar (Italian pronunciation: [pomˈpeːo]; February 21, 1921 – April 5, 2004) was a Playboy magazine staff photographer who photographed many centerfold features and accompanying pictures of women featured as playmate of the month. Notably, he was responsible for the December 1968 centerfold of Cynthia Myers and the November 1975 centerfold of Janet Lupo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeo_Posar

King Rump I: Alright Pompeo, it's payback time. You got any more Karen McDougals you can set me up with?

Pompeo: Mmmmmfrbbbbbbbbbrrrmmmf. (Mr. Pompeo's exact words are lost due to his voice being muffled by the CiC's enormous ass.}

spanone

(135,823 posts)
4. They are leeches....all his sycophants....leeches.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:20 PM
Aug 2019

they all know what a shit trump is...they think they are advancing themselves.

history will not be kind. barr is the same animal.

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