During an appearance on Fox News Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said something he probably wishes he could take back.
Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, was speaking with Fox host Laura Ingraham, who asked him:
“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party?
Pompeo replied:
“Because, in fact, we often are.”
Damn! Mike said the quiet part out loud. And there’s definitely a case to be made that conservatives are indeed a bigger threat to the United States and China, if only because the conservatives are holding positions of power where they routinely work against the best interests of their own country.
It’s also important to note that Ingraham didn’t ask if Pompeo thought Russia was the biggest threat to the U.S. at the current time. Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump certainly didn’t think so, and he cozied up to Russian mass murderer/war criminal Vladimir Putin every chance he got.
Twitter quickly reminded Pompeo that he’d finally said something truthful: