Opinion: Mike Pompeo, master of cluelessness
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on March 27. By James Downie James Downie Digital opinions editor Email Bio Follow Opinions editor May 5 at 5:27 PM What’s Mike Pompeo’s secret? The former congressman who became CIA director and now is secretary of state is one of the longest-tenured members of President Trump’s Cabinet. Yet unlike other original Trump appointees, he has avoided both embarrassing scandal or drawing the president’s ire .
The second iteration of Pompeo’s cluelessness: pretending not to understand the question and clashing with the interviewer.
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