Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted President Biden after Biden stated in Vietnam that he didn’t “want to contain China.”
Speaking in Hanoi last Friday, Biden stated, “I am sincere about getting the relationship right. And one of the things that is going on now is China is beginning to change some of the rules of the game, in terms of trade and other issues. &#8230; And so, really, what this trip was about — it was less about containing China. I don’t want to contain China. I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up, squared away, everybody knows what it’s all about.”
“That’s just hopelessly naïve and something out of decades gone by,” Pompeo told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. “The place that America finds itself is a direct result of Xi Jinping’s behavior. This isn’t a dislike for the Chinese people or dislike for the Chinese government per se; it is Xi Jinping’s aggression against America.”
“He’s stolen billions of dollars of intellectual property; he foisted a virus on the world. To say that you’re just trying to figure out how to get along, Xi Jinping views that as weakness or incompetence, or perhaps both,” Pompeo continued.
“And that’s dangerous,” he stated.”they’re running huge spy operations inside of our country; they have huge influence on our university systems all across America. For President Biden to say, “well, we don’t want to contain them” — well, fair enough. But make no mistake about it, Xi Jinping has at least declared economic war on the United States for the last 30 years.”
In August 2022, Pompeo — who staunchly opposed Communist China during his tenure during the Trump administration — warned of entities controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) procuring American farmland with much of it located near U.S. military bases.
In May 2022, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced the <a href="http://newhouse.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/newhouse.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/NEWHOU_063_xml.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act</a>, which would bar foreign nationals associated with the CCP from buying public or private agricultural land in the United States.
“China’s American agricultural land holdings have increased over tenfold in the last decade, and at the beginning of 2020, investments from China held $2 billion of American agricultural land,” Newhouse <a href="https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-introduces-bill-block-china-purchasing-american-farmland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
Pompeo tweeted, “CCP-controlled entities are now buying up American farmland, much of which is near U.S. military bases. Yet, our diplomats in China can’t even go to the grocery story [sic] without someone following them. We have to take this seriously.”
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CCP-controlled entities are now buying up American farmland, much of which is near U.S. military bases. Yet, our diplomats in China can’t even go to the grocery story without someone following them. 
We have to take this seriously.
&mdash; Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1554101212810706951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Let me be clear,” he added. “China, under the rule of the CCP, is the greatest threat to the U.S. in our history. It touches every facet of American life: military, education, the private sector, our government, and more. It will take real, unified effort in each for America to stay on top.”
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Let me be clear &#8211; China, under the rule of the CCP, is the greatest threat to the U.S. in our history. It touches every facet of American life: military, education, the private sector, our government, and more. It will take real, unified effort in each for America to stay on top.
&mdash; Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1554474420563021828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In March 2020, Pompeo <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-china-says-pompeo-lying-in-new-coronavirus-clash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Beijing “wasted valuable days” by permitting  “hundreds of thousands” to leave Wuhan and travel to other places. &#8220;The Chinese Communist Party didn&#8217;t get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that,&#8221; Pompeo said.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> pushed back on claims that he rips on a lot of top people who he hired in his administration by saying that for every one bad example there is, there are ten good examples.
Trump made the remarks in response to a question from Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who noted that Trump said in 2016 that he was going to &#8220;surround myself with only the best and most serious people.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I did do that,&#8221; Trump told Baier. &#8220;That&#8217;s tremendous. Look, we had the best economy we&#8217;ve ever had, the world has ever seen.&#8221;
Baier responded:
<blockquote>This time, your Vice President Mike Pence is running against you. Your ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, she&#8217;s running against you. Your former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said he&#8217;s not supporting you.
You mentioned National Security Adviser John Bolton. He&#8217;s not supporting you either. You mentioned Attorney General Bill Barr. Says you shouldn&#8217;t be president again. Calls you &#8216;the consummate narcissist&#8217; and “troubled man.” You recently called Barr a “gutless pig.”
Your second defense secretary is not supporting you. Called you irresponsible. This week, you called your White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “weak and ineffective” and “born with a very small brain.” You called your acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney a “born loser.” You called your first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, “dumb as a rock,” and your first Defense Secretary, James Mattis, “the world&#8217;s most overrated general.” You called your White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany “milquetoast.”
And multiple times, you&#8217;ve referred to your Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, as “Mitch McConnell&#8217;s China-loving wife.”</blockquote>
When asked why he hired all those people, Trump responded that he &#8220;hired ten to one that were fantastic.&#8221;
&#8220;We had a great economy. We had phenomenal people in charge of the economy,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;We had phenomenal people in the military. I&#8217;m not a fan of Milley and I&#8217;m not a fan of certain of the television people. But I knocked out ISIS, I defeated ISIS. They said, Mattis, it will take three years and I don&#8217;t think we can do it. I did it in a period of like four weeks.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people who praise you for your policies,&#8221; Baier acknowledged. &#8220;I just said that.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s true. Well, I mean, you just went through a list,&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;But don&#8217;t forget, for every one you say, I had ten that love us.&#8221;
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Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pompeo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pompeo</a> announced Friday afternoon that he will not be launching a campaign for president in 2024 after carefully considering the matter.
&#8220;It is simplest and most accurate to say that this decision is personal,&#8221; Pompeo said in a statement. &#8220;The time is not right for me and my family. At each stage of my public service — as a soldier, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and then as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and as your Secretary of State, I&#8217;ve been blessed to have the opportunity to advance America in a way that fit the time and the moment.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not that time or that moment for me to seek elected office again,&#8221; he added.
Pompeo said that he and his wife Susan concluded after much prayer that for the time being, they &#8220;can best serve in roles we&#8217;ve been in before — as parents, Sunday school teachers, community leaders, and business leaders.&#8221;
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&#8220;To those of you this announcement disappoints, my apologies. And to those of you this thrills, know that I&#8217;m 59 years-old,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;There remain many more opportunities for which the timing might be more fitting as presidential leadership becomes even more necessary.&#8221;
Pompeo told Fox News host Bret Baier that former President Donald Trump did not factor into his decision to not seek the White House at this time.
&#8220;Frankly, this race, I hope, isn&#8217;t about people,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;I hope it&#8217;s about these ideas.&#8221;
Pompeo did not give any indication on whether he will make an endorsement during the Republican Party primary.
&#8220;We will see how it plays out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about any one person. I want to find that person who can not only talk about the things that matter to every family in America, but who can actually build an organization, create a team, and deliver that for the American people. That&#8217;s what matters to me.”
&#8220;And when I figure out who that right person is, I will &#8212; like I have always done in my life, I will get behind them and do everything I can to help them,&#8221; he said.
Pompeo confirmed that he might endorse another candidate instead of the former president.
When asked about Trump&#8217;s repeated attacks on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and whether any Republican candidate can beat Trump, Pompeo responded: &#8220;I think the American people will sort this out.&#8221;
&#8220;I think Americans are thirsting for people making arguments, not just tweets. I think they&#8217;re looking for someone who can clearly articulate their vision for what parents ought to be doing to help their kids be successful in schools and how we take back crime from our streets and cities,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that will end up being President Trump that the American people choose, or if that&#8217;s who our party will choose to be its nominee.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pompeo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pompeo</a> is openly casting doubt on the conservative bonafides of his one-time boss, former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, ahead of a potential face-off in 2024.
During an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; Pompeo talked about how a conservative president is needed to tackle the nation&#8217;s budget deficit and debt after years of neglect, including during the Trump administration.
Anchor Shannon Bream then asked Pompeo if he was saying Trump was not a &#8220;true conservative leader,&#8221; using her guest&#8217;s words to describe the kind of president he argued is necessary to attain fiscal responsibility.
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Fox&#39;s Shannon Bream: &quot;Are you saying that President Trump wasn&#39;t a true conservative leader?&quot; 
Former Trump CIA Director Mike Pompeo: &quot;Six trillion dollars more in debt, that&#39;s never the right direction for the country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bgdyRHRivf">pic.twitter.com/bgdyRHRivf</a>
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&#8220;Six trillion dollars more in debt, that&#8217;s never the right direction for the country,&#8221; Pompeo said.
Pompeo&#8217;s comments Sunday build upon remarks he delivered at Conservative Political Action Conference, chastising Trump for the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/14/trump-legacy-national-debt-increasee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly $8 trillion rise</a> in the national debt during his presidency, largely <a href="https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2023/1/23/23564700/trump-administration-responsible-for-25-percent-of-national-debt">attributed</a> to coronavirus relief.
“I stare today at $31 trillion in debt and tell my son, ‘Make sure you work hard, because Social Security may just not be there for you,’” he said on Friday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3883003-pompeo-takes-swipe-at-trump-over-adding-nearly-8-trillion-to-us-debt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Hill</a>.
&#8220;Every recent administration, Republican and Democrat alike, added trillions in dollars to our debt,&#8221; Pompeo continued. &#8220;That is deeply unconservative. [The] Trump administration, the administration I served, added $8 trillion in new debt. This is indecent and can’t continue. Earning back that trust will be hard work, it won’t just be a campaign speech.&#8221;
Meanwhile the United States is headed toward a debt default this summer unless Congress <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/debt-ceiling-us-is-projected-to-default-between-july-and-september-if-congress-doesnt-raise-limits-cbo-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raises the debt ceiling</a>.
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While Trump declared his candidacy for the White House in November, Pompeo has yet to announce a bid, though he has hinted at his interest in running.
&#8220;We need more seriousness, less noise, and leaders who are looking forward, not staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1592900427947048960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pompeo tweeted</a> after Trump announced his third presidential campaign.
Pompeo is a former Tea Party Republican U.S. congressman who served in Trump&#8217;s administration as CIA director and then secretary of state.
If he entered the 2024 race for the GOP presidential nomination, Pompeo would join Trump, former South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley,</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-anti-woke-capital-crusader-announces-2024-white-house-bid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.</a>
Another Trump administration alumnus, former Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a>, is also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/pence-2024-run-prayerful-consideration-00066877" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering a campaign for president</a>.

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Pompeo Dunks On Trump Over Debt, Suggests Former Boss Isn't 'True' Conservative

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Former Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that Chinese President Xi Jinping is &#8220;watching for American weakness&#8221; during an interview Monday after an Air Force general warned in a memo that the U.S. is on a collision course with communist China.
Four-star Air Force General Mike Minihan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-general-predicts-war-with-china-by-2025-i-hope-i-am-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a memo last week that believes that the U.S. will be in an all-out war with China in the next couple of years.
“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” he wrote. “Xi secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”
Minihan said that his top priority was ingraining the fact that &#8220;unrepentant lethality matters most&#8221; in the minds of the 50,000 service members that he leads.
Pompeo <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/pompeo-highlights-threat-china-air-force-general-predicts-war?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addressed</a> Minihan&#8217;s remarks during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; saying: &#8220;I take General Minihan to be serious, in the sense of he&#8217;s clearly very concerned that we&#8217;re not doing enough to prepare to deter the Chinese Communist Party.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s what he was really getting at – it&#8217;s hard to put timelines on any of these things: he says 2025,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;But make no mistake about it, Xi Jinping is watching for American weakness. He&#8217;s watching for an absence of resolve. And if he sees opportunity, he will seize that very opportunity.&#8221;
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Sunday that the odds of a conflict with China by 2025 “are very high.”
“I hope he’s wrong &#8230;” McCaul said. “I think he’s right, though, unfortunately.”
“We have to be prepared for this,” McCaul said. “And it could happen … as long as Biden is in office — projecting weakness as he did with Afghanistan that led to Putin invading Ukraine — that the odds are very high we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific.”
Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/29/top-house-democrat-adam-smith-criticizes-generals-/">claimed</a> that the possibility that the U.S. would end up in a war with China was “highly unlikely.”
“We have a very dangerous situation in China, but I think generals need to be very cautious about saying, ‘We’re going to war. It’s inevitable,’” he claimed.

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Former Trump administration official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pompeo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pompeo</a> accused Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) of leaking classified information.
The fresh allegation was made after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-formally-kicks-schiff-and-swalwell-from-house-intel-integrity-matters-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked Schiff&#8217;s appointment</a> to remain on the House Intelligence Committee, where he served as chairman for the last four years.
&#8220;During my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,&#8221; Pompeo said on Fox News on Wednesday.
Pompeo did not offer specifics, but he insisted the problem was bad enough to restrict what he shared with Congress.
Underscoring what a serious charge that is, &#8220;Outnumbered&#8221; co-host Emily Compagno pressed Pompeo on why there hasn&#8217;t been accountability if such leaks would be &#8220;a felony at minimum, up to treason.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a complicated process, right? It&#8217;s difficult to pin down precisely what happened,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;But I could tell you that when we provided information to him and to his staff, it ended up in places it shouldn&#8217;t have been with alarming regularity. We could see it. In the end, I decided, I held back information from them as a result.&#8221;
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MIKE POMPEO: &quot;The fact that&#8230;Schiff was the Chairman of the&#8230;Intelligence Committee almost ruined that committee&#8230;Schiff should be nowhere near serving on the Intelligence Committee. I don&#39;t think he should be seeing classified information.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3A0iwMc3Dq">pic.twitter.com/3A0iwMc3Dq</a>
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The Daily Wire reached out to Schiff&#8217;s office for comment on Pompeo&#8217;s claims. “This is another patently false and defamatory statement from Mike Pompeo. While we understand that Adam Schiff is a favorite target for the failed lackeys of the Trump administration running for president, reputable news outlets shouldn’t repeat these falsehoods,” Schiff spokesperson Lauren French <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3830797-pompeo-accuses-schiff-of-leaking-classified-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Hill</a>.
Schiff has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-says-he-hasnt-leaked-classified-info-but-cant-speak-for-other-house-intel-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied leaking classified information</a> in the past. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t. My staff hasn&#8217;t,” he told CNN in 2020 before offering the caveat: &#8220;I can&#8217;t speak for what all the members of the committee have done or not done, including a lot of the Republican members.&#8221;
Pompeo isn&#8217;t the first intelligence leader in the Trump administration to accuse Schiff of leaking classified information. In January 2021, former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell claimed Schiff and his team <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/grenell-schiff-classified-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;regularly&#8221; leaked</a> classified information.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested to conservative commentator Lisa Boothe in April 2021 that Schiff <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tom-cotton-adam-schiff-potential-source-russian-bounties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could be a source for dubious reports</a> on Russia offering bounties to Afghan militants to kill U.S. troops. Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland shot back with a brief response to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tom-cotton-adam-schiff-potential-source-russian-bounties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Washington Examiner</a> at the time, &#8220;Yet another false and baseless claim by Tom Cotton — you would think he would know better by now.&#8221;
McCarthy kicked Schiff, along with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), from the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. McCarthy had long accused Schiff of being a repeat liar, particularly with investigations related to former President Donald Trump. During his interview with Fox News, Pompeo also called Schiff a liar and praised McCarthy for removing him from the panel.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) nominated Schiff to the committee over the weekend, calling him &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-leader-picks-schiff-and-swalwell-for-intel-panel-in-defiance-of-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eminently qualified</a>.&#8221; After he was blocked, Schiff responded by claiming McCarthy&#8217;s move was &#8220;petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump.&#8221;
Also on Tuesday, Schiff talked about how he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schiff-claims-he-never-took-classified-docs-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">too &#8220;paranoid&#8221;</a> to take any classified information to his house while serving on the House Intelligence Committee. &#8220;This is what’s so astounding, I think, for all of us on the Intelligence Committee. I never take classified documents to my house,&#8221; Schiff told MSNBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell, who asked if he had taken any records home. &#8220;I don’t know any reason why people would,&#8221; Schiff added.
The conversation happened as it was revealed about a dozen documents marked classified were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home</a> in Indiana and turned over to the FBI. The Justice Department already appointed two separate special counsels to investigate former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden for their handling of classified materials stored in their residences and offices.

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, responding to criticism from The Washington Post regarding his comments about Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in Saudi Arabia, gave a lesson on how a realistic American foreign policy works.
The Post slammed Pompeo for describing Khashogi as an “activist” rather than a journalist in his new book, “Never Give an Inch.” “He didn’t deserve to die, but we need to be clear about who he was — and too many in the media were not,” Pompeo wrote. On Tuesday, the publisher of the Washington Post, Fred Ryan, <a href="https://twitter.com/WashPostPR/status/1617918861231394818" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapped</a>, “It is shameful that Pompeo would spread vile falsehoods to dishonor a courageous man’s life and service — and his commitment to principles Americans hold dear — as a ploy to sell books.”
“Americans are safer because we didn’t label Saudi Arabia a pariah state,” Pompeo <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1617957497440178176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired back.</a> “I never let the media bully me. Just b/c someone is a part-time stringer for WaPo doesn’t make their life more important than our military serving in dangerous places protecting us all. I never forgot that.”
The Jerusalem Post published an <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/the-antisemitic-tweets-of-murdered-saudi-writer-jamal-khashoggi-586820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> regarding Khashoggi&#8217;s political machinations in April 2019.
Speaking on the Ben Shapiro Show, Pompeo elaborated on the Khashoggi brouhaha and his view of how American foreign policy should be conducted.
“This is a classic example of how we thought in the Trump administration about what we thought about the world,”he began. “It was about making sure we kept America secure. And so Saudi folks went to Turkey, murdered Jamal Khashoggi: fact. We accepted that as fact, but it doesn’t change the fundamental requirement to protect America. And so I was in the middle of this; I went in and told the president, ‘The Washington Post is having a field day; The New York Times is going crazy; the Left is telling the story about Jamal Khashoggi as an American hero when in fact it is a lot more complicated than that.’”
“But second, and most importantly, we needed them as a security partner and we need them as an energy and economic partner as well and we certainly didn’t want to hand over the kingdom to the Chinese,&#8221; he added. “And so that series of understandings caused me to be sent by the president to travel, to meet with Mohammed Bin Salman to express our anger at what had happened, right? Nobody likes a murder of anyone. But to make clear that the United States and the kingdom were going to continue to be partners. And I took a lot of — what’s the right word, crap? — for that personally. But we made the fundamentally right decision.”
“And I think you can see what President Biden tried to do when he declared Mohammed Bin Salman a pariah wasn’t in America’s best interests,&#8221; he added.
“And so we will have to, more broadly, deal with characters all around the world who have systems that are fundamentally different than ours, but when they are working on things that are in America’s best interests,” he explained. “I talked about this in ‘Never Give an Inch.’ I worked on a project with the Russians. We took down a terror plot in St. Petersburg. So you could say, ‘Why do we care about that?’”
“The answer is there were Americans in St. Petersburg, and we, when I was director of CIA, we had intelligence, we handed it to the Russians; they took down the plot and we saved American lives,” he recalled. “It doesn’t mean we admire Vladimir Putin’s value set; it simply means that you have to be real about the things that matter to the American people.”
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And the inverse, Ben, and I’ll close with this thought, I wrote about this a lot in the book: Sometimes your friends really aren’t your friends either. Take a look at what’s happening in Europe today: We told the Germans: You rely on Russian gas bad things will happen. &#8230;Didn’t know what, didn’t know how, but in the end we were spot-on about that. So we delivered hard messages to NATO, hard messages to the Germans and the French saying you have to get serious about securing your own sovereignty. They rejected that and now you can see the Ukraine civilians are paying a price for that.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> says <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mikepompeo</a>&#39;s comments on Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia are &quot;shameful.&quot;
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‘You Have To Be Real’: Mike Pompeo Gives Clear Lesson On Foreign Policy

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Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pompeo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pompeo</a> suggested that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a> and the rest of the world should cut off travel from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> to prevent another global outbreak of a COVID variant.
The former Trump administration official appeared on <a href="https://catsroundtable.com/former-sec-of-state-mike-pompeo-report-from-around-the-world-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cats Roundtable</a>, a local New York radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis, on Sunday and warned that a mass outbreak in China could cause a second COVID pandemic nearly three years after the first.
“We’re about to do the same thing again. The data is no good, but it sounds like we might have as many as one million – one million, John – Chinese people infected, fifty percent of their population traveling,” Pompeo said.
“There is no reason we should allow the Chinese to do this again, to send Chinese-infected persons around the world knowingly infecting people all across the globe. [Chinese President Xi Jinping] got away with this once. I regret that he wasn&#8217;t held accountable, he hasn’t been held accountable,” he continued. “But he’s doing it again, so, John, just as in the spring of 2020 when he sent people around the world he knew were infected, he’s doing the same darn thing again. He’s going to infect millions more. We shouldn’t let that happen.”
Catsimatidis agreed with Pompeo, saying, “We’ve been through hell.”
“The whole world has. The American business community has,” Pompeo responded. “And here we are, Xi Jinping doing it all over again. The virus came from a lab in Wuhan, and now it’s going to come from people inside of China traveling the world. The world should not permit this to happen again.”
China is facing an outbreak of COVID after the government lifted some of its draconian lockdown measures following mass nationwide protests of the policies that were initially put in place in 2020 to stop the spread of the malady. The failure of the lockdown policies to eradicate the disease in China has raised questions about whether Xi’s “zero COVID” approach was worth the dramatic toll it took on the nation’s economy.
Official Chinese data on the disease is unreliable, but signs across the country <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/world/asia/covid-spreading-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggest</a> that the illness is on the rise in China after it lifted lockdown policies last month.
The streets of Guangzhou, China’s southern economic hub, are lined with businesses advertising “for sale” or “help wanted” signs. Many industries have hit bottlenecks as workers have fallen ill. Hospitals and funeral homes are being overrun with the sick and dead, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/business/china-economy-covid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
COVID originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Experts disagree on the illness&#8217;s precise beginnings, with two leading theories being a wet market or the product of coronavirus research and a lab leak. One reason the precise origin of the disease has been difficult to pin down is the Chinese government&#8217;s lack of cooperation with other world health officials and researchers.
Xi recognized the “tough challenges” that China still has to face regarding COVID in an address on Saturday. He stood by his administration’s “zero COVID” policies and handling of the pandemic so far.
“Since COVID-19 struck, we have put the people first and put life first all along,” the Chinese president said, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-31/xi-says-tough-challenges-remain-in-new-phase-of-covid-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a>. “With extraordinary efforts, we have prevailed over unprecedented difficulties and challenges, and it has not been an easy journey for anyone. We have now entered a new phase of COVID response where tough challenges remain.”

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted the Biden administration over its recent prisoner swap of Russian &#8220;Merchant of Death&#8221; arms dealer Viktor Bout for American WNBA player Brittney Griner.
Pompeo shared his criticisms during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with Shannon Bream.
“We weren’t going to trade bad guys for celebrities because it creates the wrong incentives for the bad guys. As we go forward, it’s not good for American national security. It’s not good for people who are traveling across the world,” Pompeo said.
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WATCH: Former Secretary of State <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mikepompeo</a> joined <a href="https://twitter.com/ShannonBream?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShannonBream</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxNewsSunday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxNewsSunday</a> to react to Brittney Griner&#39;s release and China&#39;s developing relationship with Saudi Arabia. Plus, he shares his thoughts on the future of the Republican Party as well as his 2024 plans. <a href="https://t.co/gGjEzcy54n">pic.twitter.com/gGjEzcy54n</a>
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Griner was released after being detained in Russia for ten months for bringing cannabis oil cartridges into the country just ahead of the Kremlin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.
The Phoenix Mercury star was later sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony. The Biden administration held months of talks with Russian leaders to negotiate Griner&#8217;s release.
Griner&#8217;s prison swap was announced on Thursday. Some Americans celebrated her freedom, but many were critical of the trade.
Bout was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, delivery of anti-aircraft missiles, and aiding a terrorist organization. Some worries remain that the Merchant of Death could soon return to his former ways.
&#8220;[W]e cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision,&#8221; Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said in a <a href="https://www.menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/chairman-menendez-statement-on-the-release-of-brittney-griner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;We must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips, and we must try do (sic) better at encouraging American citizens against traveling to places like Russia where they are primary targets for this type of unlawful detention.&#8221;
Former DEA agent Robert Zachariasiewicz told the Washington Post that he opposed the prisoner swap over the message it could send to Russian leaders.
“We just showed that it is really useful to have an American in your back pocket because you never know when you need them to trade,” Zachariasiewicz <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/09/brittney-griner-viktor-bout-paul-whelan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton also criticized the agreement.
“This is not a deal. This is not a swap. This is a surrender. And terrorists and rogue states all around the world will take note of this, and it endangers other Americans in the future who can be grabbed and used as bargaining chips by people who don’t have the same morals and scruples that we do,” Bolton <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/trump-turned-down-viktor-bout-for-paul-whelan-prisoner-swap-john-bolton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a CBS interview.
Others have expressed frustration that former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan remains imprisoned in Russia and was not part of the deal.
“I am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four-year anniversary of my arrest is coming up. I was arrested for a crime that never occurred,” Whelan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/politics/paul-whelan-cnn-interview-brittney-griner/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.”

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has thrown down the gauntlet to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — whom he has described as “the most dangerous person in the world” — challenging her to a debate.
Last week, Pompeo told <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/mike-pompeo-slams-teachers-union-head-randi-weingarten-as-dangerous/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Semafor</a> that when he was asked who the most dangerous person in the world was, he named Weingarten, adding, “It’s not a close call.”
“I fear America is on a path to disintegration due to persistent failures in our education system. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and her fellow travelers have crippled our nation’s schools,” Pompeo wrote in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/pompeo-yes-randi-weingarten-is-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in the New York Post on Tuesday.
In February 2021, in an <a href="https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363682689962901504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1363682689962901504%7Ctwgr%5Eaba3043602bc4aefbc4aabee2692d275670f3162%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D193194action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Axios</a>, Weingarten said in reference to children who had been out of school for months, “kids are resilient and kids will recover.”
Axios’ Dan Primack asked, “Is there a point — and maybe you think we’re already past it — is there a point in which kids have been out of in-person school for so long that the education that they’ve lost isn’t really recoverable, that the third grade, the fourth grade, the kindergarten they lost, they can take extra semesters in the summer; they can do [that], but it can’t really be fixed?”
“No,” said Weingarten, whose union is the second largest teachers union in America, representing 1.7 million teachers. “I don&#8217;t believe that. I believe that kids are resilient and kids will recover. But we as adults have to meet their needs. Their emotional needs, their social needs, their learning needs.”
“The <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/mike-pompeo-is-right-randi-weingarten-is-a-danger-to-our-children/">danger she presents to our nation is clear and real</a> and exceeds that of all the bad guys I battled abroad for four years as secretary of state and CIA director,” Pompeo declared.
Noting that Weingarten responded to his Semafor remarks by ranting that Pompeo was  “extreme,” “anti-LGBTQ,” and “anti-Semitic,” Pompeo charged, “Her personal venom evidences an unwillingness to defend <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/randi-weingarten-and-unions-own-the-tragedy-of-kids-learning-loss/">what she has wrought on our children and our nation</a>. I am prepared to debate her and to present to the American people my case for the risks she presents to our republic and our nation’s future.”
Pompeo quoted the Father of the Constitution and America’s fourth president, James Madison: “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
He quoted iconic historian Will Durant: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
“I believe the future of our republic will not be written by our enemies,” Pompeo opined. “Indeed, America is more likely to be lost if we do not retake our schools from radical and progressive forces. &#8230; Failing to teach math, science, real history and civics and, importantly, to imprint America as the most exceptional nation in civilizational history on the hearts and minds of the next generation dooms America and the world that counts on us.”
“Students in China now outscore our children across the board,” Pompeo noted. “America’s students are severely deficient in mathematics and science, vital in our technological age.”
He pointed out that according to the Program for International Student Assessment, among 70 countries “American students ranked 35th in mathematics, 16th in science and 11th in reading.”
“All of this on Weingarten’s watch,” Pompeo asserted. “And it’s now worse. That assessment was conducted before the school lockdowns Weingarten helped engineer.”
“This focus on indoctrination over education is why Weingarten and the leftist establishment she represents are so dangerous; their malfeasance directly empowers Xi, Putin, and Ali Khamenei, who look to our schools to accelerate the decline upon which they build their global narrative,” Pompeo theorized. “<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/08/how-the-1619-project-slandered-america/">Critical race theory and the 1619 Project</a> derive from Marxist precepts; they do not reflect the greatness and the power of the American experiment. Today, only 1 in 3 Americans could pass the citizenship test.”
“America’s founding was a watershed in world history. Our nation is exceptional,” Pompeo stated. “President Biden should demand a renaissance in America’s schools, but he is too indebted to Weingarten, her union and other special interests to do his job.”
“Who are the beneficiaries of Weingarten’s vision of education?” Pompeo asked rhetorically. “Union bosses. Bureaucrats who multiply beyond function — and our adversaries. What Xi, Putin and Khamenei could never accomplish on the battlefield they are reaping in our classrooms.”
“If Weingarten and her ilk continue to control our schools and universities, we will lose our country, for it will become indefensible. She dissembles, knowing that an echoic media will front for her,” Pompeo blasted.
He concluded, &#8220;I look forward to the opportunity to defend our republic against the America-hating left that has occupied the commanding heights of our schools as opposed to the parents who so desperately need teachers to stay on mission.&#8221;
&#8220;Therefore, will you, Randi Weingarten, accept my challenge to debate?&#8221;

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/blackrock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BlackRock</a> referred to a potential military invasion of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/taiwan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taiwan</a> as “reunification,” a phrase that aligns with the official policy of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> government.
Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pompeo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pompeo</a> and Strive Asset Management Executive Chairman <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> argued in a Monday <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/investing-silicon-semiconductors-chips-taiwan-invasion-tsmc-china-intel-blackrock-asset-manager-11665408814" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> for The Wall Street Journal that BlackRock “raves about the importance of Chinese investments with little mention of Taiwan” and associated risk factors. While responding to the article on social media, BlackRock claimed that the firm has “highlighted for the past year the investment risk should China take steps to accelerate reunification with Taiwan.”
Ramaswamy argued that BlackRock’s choice of words reveals how the asset management company is “beholden” to the Chinese Communist Party even when “they’re trying to argue that they’re not.”
“They refer to China’s potential military invasion of Taiwan, a sovereign democratic nation, as ‘reunification.’ ‘Reunification’ is a phrase you use to describe a lost child who has been returned to his parents in a shopping mall, not a military invasion of a sovereign nation,” the entrepreneur said. “BlackRock can&#8217;t even utter the word ‘invasion’ in the very tweets where it’s claiming it is not beholden to China.”
The Daily Wire contacted BlackRock to determine the company’s official policy toward the independence of Taiwan but received no response.
As Ramaswamy and Pompeo observed in the article, BlackRock became the first foreign company to secure preliminary approval to offer mutual funds in China two years ago. During the summer of 2021, BlackRock told investors to triple their Chinese investments after a selloff in the country’s stock market.
In recent months, however, China has assumed an increasingly aggressive posture toward Taiwan. The Chinese military <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-lashes-out-as-u-s-and-taiwan-forge-trade-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it sent a “readiness patrol” around Taiwanese sea and airspace this summer in response to trade talks with the U.S. In February of this year, as Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, China sent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taiwan-scrambles-air-force-after-chinese-aircraft-spotted-nearby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">squadrons of jets</a> into Taiwan’s airspace following a similar incursion one month earlier.
An invasion of Taiwan would prove especially dangerous to American companies’ ability to access semiconductors. In particular, manufacturer TSMC produces 90% of the world’s most advanced computer chips, meaning that an attack upon the island nation could cause a global economic crisis. The article therefore encourages American firms to invest in domestic semiconductor production and said that asset managers like BlackRock are failing to address known risk factors that could harm their clients.
The economies of China and the United States are deeply intertwined. American goods and services trade with China surpassed $615 billion as of 2020, according to <a href="https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china">data</a> from the Office of the United States Trade Representative, while foreign direct investment in China was nearly $124 billion.
Beyond the present geopolitical risks associated with an invasion of Taiwan, multiple key Asian manufacturing economies enforced harsh lockdowns two years ago, creating bottlenecks in the global semiconductor supply chain that persist to the present day. President Joe Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-52-billion-semiconductor-bill-in-latest-push-to-fight-inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the CHIPS and Science Act, which includes $39 billion in computer chip manufacturing incentives, $13.2 billion for research and development, and a 25% investment tax credit for semiconductor production.
“One-third of the core inflation last year was due to the higher price… for automobiles and a shortage of semiconductors,” Biden said two months ago. “Folks, we need to make these chips here in America to bring down everyday costs and create jobs.”

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for slamming the Trump administration’s plan for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, Kinzinger tweeted, “Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did. I knew Pompeo in the house. He was a hawk on Afghanistan until Trump. He knew better, he owns this as well. Trump Pompeo and Biden all to blame.”
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Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did.
I knew Pompeo in the house. He was a hawk on Afghanistan until trump. He knew better, he owns this as well. 
Trump Pompeo and Biden all to blame.
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Pompeo fired back, “Adam Kinzinger repeatedly asked me for job in Trump Admin (Air Force Sec, Amb), and for wife. Now attacks our Afghan plan that saw no US fatalities/no Taliban takeover/no Americans left behind. Adam, I enjoyed our work in Congress. What’s happened to you? YOU should know better.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adamkinzinger</a> repeatedly asked me for job in Trump Admin (Air Force Sec, Amb), and for wife. Now attacks our Afghan plan that saw no US fatalities/no Taliban takeover/no Americans left behind. Adam, I enjoyed our work in Congress. What’s happened to you? YOU should know better.
&mdash; Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1560243822961065985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In August 2021, Kinzinger <a href="https://kinzinger.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402790">wrote</a>, “The Taliban has always said that America has the watches, but they have the time. Under both President Trump and President Biden, the U.S. announced that our time in Afghanistan is over, effectively letting the Taliban know they were right, they could simply outwait us. And today, we watched as the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban regained full control.”
“This is the result of a shortsighted, weak, and utter failure of both the previous White House and the current Administration. The naïve Trump Administration legitimized the Taliban by having ‘talks’ with them about peace and openly negotiating with terrorists, while the Biden Administration tried to fulfill a campaign promise without any semblance of a plan or forethought into how this would play out.&#8221;
In mid-August 2021, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Pompeo <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-pompeo-nukes-biden-in-response-to-biden-trying-to-blame-trump-for-afghanistan-debacle/">spoke</a> with Chris Wallace, then of Fox News, about President Biden blaming the Trump administration for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“President Biden released a statement yesterday in which, in effect, he blamed President Trump and your administration for the deal that you made with the Taliban back in 2020, which resulted in a promise at that time — that President Trump had stayed in office — to pull all troops out by this past May,” Wallace stated, then quoted Biden saying, “When I became president, I faced a choice: follow through on the deal or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country&#8217;s civil conflict.”
“If the risks weren&#8217;t so serious, Chris, it would be pathetic,” Pompeo replied. “I wouldn&#8217;t have let my 10-year old son get away from this kind of pathetic blame-shifting&#8230;. it&#8217;s worth noting, this did not happen on our watch. We reduced our forces significantly and the Taliban didn&#8217;t advance on capitals all across Afghanistan.”
“Critics say that for the U.S. to cut a deal with the Taliban without the Afghan government even in the room was hugely demoralizing and led inevitably to where we are today,” Wallace pressed.
“That&#8217;s just simply not true,” Pompeo answered. “Go read the deal. Go read the conditions that were built into the deal. I was in the room. I was at the center of working to deliver that. The Afghans were in the room. We had the Afghans all in the room for the same time in 20 years; we had Afghan leaders. &#8230; We were working diligently to deliver on the president&#8217;s two missions: to get our young people home, to reduce the risk of the United States from having our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines there in Afghanistan, and second, to create the conditions where we could make sure that a terror attack on the United States did not happen from there. We did it in the Philippines. We did it in Syria. We reduced terrorism risk all around the world. We would have done it in Afghanistan as well.”
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