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Who Are the Laziest and Nastiest Reporters in the Swamp? Mike Pompeo Has a List

January 25, 2023 by Bob Hoge Leave a Comment

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Mike Pompeo released a new book this week, “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,” and it’s already at number five on Amazon’s best-seller list. Pompeo, who’s been a congressman and served as CIA director and Secretary of State under Trump, has had plenty of dealings with the Washington media, and now he’s listing the most obnoxious and lazy of the bunch (which is saying a lot).

Lots of familiar names are here, unsurprisingly: CNN hack Jim Acosta, Politico reporter Nahal Toosi (who Pompeo claims “embodied the lazy thinking and partisanship with which many reporters approach their work”), former Fox anchor and now CNN Forgotten Man Chris Wallace, NBC’s dour Andrea Mitchell, and even the Number One darling journalist of the Democrats, “All the President’s Men” co-author Bob Woodward.

Let’s start with Chris Wallace and Andrea Mitchell. Pompeo—who looks almost unrecognizable on the cover of his book after his dramatic weight loss—writes:

When Wallace was with Fox, Pompeo said he appeared on a Sunday show and the newsman tried to stir up a nonexistent feud. “He spent the first half of the interview questioning the president’s mental fitness. He was trying to get me to trash President Trump,” wrote Pompeo.

In an interview with Mitchell about Iran, wrote Pompeo, she tried to “bait me” to criticize Trump. “Her question was childish and petulant,” he wrote, adding, “She was simply playing the D.C. progressive game so that she could go to cocktail parties and croak with her peers in the media elite that she had tried to embarrass the president and me. I refused to give an inch, even in the face of incoming fire.”

As for Mr. Principled Journalist, Bob Woodward, Pompeo wasn’t impressed, per the Washington Examiner:

He even cited reporter Bob Woodward, who Trump told Pompeo to talk to despite his reluctance. He gave Woodward 15 minutes one day. “I did my best to comply with the president’s direction, but I didn’t provide anything of value to a reporter who was writing a book with the singular purpose of destroying all that I was working to achieve. Moreover, he used the risk that someone would have dished on me to try and coerce me to dish on others. Sick,” wrote Pompeo.

My favorite dis, however, was to “conservative” (not really) pundit Bill Kristol. Pompeo, who is rumored to be considering running for the presidency in 2024, writes that Kristol, perpetually aggrieved Trump-hater Jim Acosta, and the Washington Post’s self-described Never Trumper Jennifer Rubin all tried to convince the public that he conspired with other Trump team members to use the 25th Amendment to remove the president.

On Air Force Two on the way to Turkey, did Pence discuss the 25th amendment with Pompeo?

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 16, 2019

Pompeo wasn’t having it:

Sorry, Bill Kristol, I never seriously discussed the Twenty-Fifth Amendment with [Mike Pence] or any other official. I never even joked about it. Now that you’ve beclowned yourself within the conservative movement, maybe there’s still a place for you with your friends at the Lincoln Project. And take Jennifer Rubin with you.

Ouch! Tell us how you really feel, Mr. Pompeo.

He also writes how CNN’s Christiane Amanpour threatened to boycott an awards dinner if Pompeo attended (how very impartial of you, Christiane), and how one NPR reporter tried to bait him with Ukraine questions (this was long before the current Ukraine-Russia war). He asked her to point the country out on a map—and she couldn’t do it! I’m laughing as I type.

Pompeo says he’s gotten used to it after all his years in politics, but is still irked by some of the antics of our wholly biased, factually-challenged mainstream press. “We dealt all the time in the administration with nasty reporters who trampled on facts,” he writes. “The correct response to this kind of harassment is to grow thicker skin, step up your game, and keep winning for America.”

Well said. While I don’t think Pompeo has a good shot at the presidency, I applaud him for speaking out and exposing some of these “respected journalists” for what they are—completely partisan Democrat hacks.

The book starts out strong (you can “look inside” at Amazon and get deep into the first chapter), and promises a lot of good “inside baseball” stories, not just details on which journalists are the worst (as much as I love reading about that).

Like him or not, at least Mike Pompeo’s fighting back.

Great to be with @JesseBWatters. And we only scratched the surface of the stories in Never Give an Inch.

Thanks for having me on and check out my book at https://t.co/eQ6tPwCDwF pic.twitter.com/Ifs2KwcL8k

— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) January 24, 2023

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‘Shut the Hell Up’: Pompeo Says Trump Told Him Not to Talk About China Hiding Early COVID Information

January 19, 2023 by Mike Miller Leave a Comment

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims in an explosive new memoir that former President Donald Trump told him to “shut the hell up for a while” about China hiding early COVID-19 pandemic information after ChiCom dictator Xi Jinping furiously asked Trump to silence him. Yep, grab the popcorn.

As the New York Post reported, the potential 2024 presidential candidate claims Xi asked Trump during a March 26, 2020 phone call to silence Pompeo’s criticism of the ChiComs’ lack of transparency about the worsening pandemic. “My Mike, that f***ing guy hates you!” Trump allegedly told the former Secretary of State, who was listening in on the call.

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Here’s more, via the Post:

The Chinese leader told Trump that Pompeo was putting at risk the “phase one” trade deal that the two leaders had brokered that January, according to Semafor, which was given a copy of Pompeo’s “Never Give An Inch” ahead of its Jan. 24 release.

Days later, Trump allegedly told Pompeo he was “putting us all at risk” by upsetting Xi because the US needed personal protective equipment from China.

“Stop, for God’s sake!” Trump allegedly said.

Pompeo recounted that he “honored” Trump’s request and that “we needed health equipment and were at the CCP’s [Chinese Communist Party’s] mercy for it … and would bide my time.”

As noted by the Post, Pompeo angered Xi by publicly accusing Beijing of an “intentional disinformation campaign” about the rapidly spreading virus — which is exactly what the ChiComs did (and continue to do)— as well as “repeatedly delayed sharing [outbreak] information with the globe.”

Again, Pompeo was spot on. But just one problem. If you’re Donald Trump, that is.

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Behind-the-scenes negotiations between Xi and Trump (whatever they might have been) aside, Trump’s “tough on China” political persona was and remains “yuugely” important to the former president, who coincidentally on Wednesday released a policy video vowing to ban Chinese investment in farmland and major U.S. industries if he pulls out a win in the 2024 presidential election.

Former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, who’s also weighing a White House bid, previously criticized Trump’s handling of China, alleging in his 2020 book that during a 2019 meeting in Japan, Trump told Xi he approved of China’s construction of detention camps for Uyghur Muslim minorities and that “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which he thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

Pompeo has correctly branded Beijing’s brutal tactics against the Uyghurs a cultural “genocide.”

The Bottom Line

Whether or not Trump was “tough on China” —and to what extent — Joe Biden’s kowtowing to the ChiComs remains not only a national disgrace but ominous, as well.

While I’m not a fan of the silliness of “whataboutism,” it sometimes matters; if only for perspective.

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