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Mike Pompeo Announces Decision On 2024 Presidential Run

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday afternoon that he will not be launching a campaign for president in 2024 after carefully considering the matter.

“It is simplest and most accurate to say that this decision is personal,” Pompeo said in a statement. “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’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to advance America in a way that fit the time and the moment.”

“This is not that time or that moment for me to seek elected office again,” he added. (Read more from “Mike Pompeo Announces Decision on 2024 Presidential Run” HERE)

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Mike Pompeo Accuses Schiff of Leaking Classified Documents

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of leaking classified information during his time as chairman on the House Intelligence Committee.

Pompeo did not provide any proof or explanation as to what was in the allegedly-leaked documents. However, he said during a Fox News interview that Schiff “almost ruined the committee” with his leadership.

“Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” he said.

The former secretary said “it’s a complicated process” when asked why he did not take action against Schiff, adding that it is “difficult to pin down precisely what happened.” (Read more from “Mike Pompeo Accuses Schiff of Leaking Classified Documents” HERE)

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Pompeo Rips Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Presidency as Trump Reminds America Biden Doesn’t Know How to Speak (VIDEO)

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out President Joe Biden for his Armageddon comments following Russia’s potential nuclear threat to the U.S.

Earlier this week, Biden said that he was not joking about a possible nuclear threat, adding that Russia would “easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”

Calling Biden’s remarks “reckless,” Pompeo said that it was one of the “greatest foreign policy failures.”

“Oh my goodness. First of all those comments were reckless. I think that even more importantly, they demonstrate maybe one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the last decades, which was the failure to deter Vladimir Putin in the same way that the Trump administration did for four years,” Pompeo said during an interview on Fox News.

Pompeo criticized Biden’s lack of awareness when commenting, saying big news like that should not have been said randomly while speaking at a fundraiser event.

(Read more from “Pompeo Rips Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Presidency as Trump Reminds America Biden Doesn’t Know How to Speak (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Mike Pompeo Reveals How He Lost 90 Pounds in Just Six Months

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Daily exercise and a better diet — that’s the secret to healthy weight loss, according to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In an interview with the New York Post Thursday, Pompeo revealed that he was able to drop 90 pounds since last June, when he realized he weighed nearly 300 and decided something had to change.

“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” he told the Post.

Speculation about Pompeo’s weight loss swirled online after he appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program in October sporting a new, slimmer physique. Some suggested that he had reconstructive surgery, others spread rumors that he had health issues or had contracted COVID-19 and so had dramatically lost weight. (Read more from “Mike Pompeo Reveals How He Lost 90 Pounds in Just Six Months” HERE)

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Mike Pompeo: US Military Was Under ‘Political Pressure’ To Carry Out Failed Drone Strike

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped President Biden for the drone attack that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Afghanistan, saying military officials bowed to “political pressure” and carried out the strike in a “rush.”

Pompeo called the killing of aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and members of his family on Aug. 29 a “tragedy” and offered his “apologies.”

But he said the drone strike was mishandled by the administration the same way it bungled the US military withdrawal and allowed the Taliban to return to power.

“This is just another example. It looks like they were in a rush. They were in a hurry. You could see the political pressure. And if there was one thing that drove this failed evacuation was the arbitrary political deadline that President Biden set, the arbitrary cap on the number of troops could be there, so we could secure American departure and the departure of our equipment​,” he said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”​

(Read more from “Mike Pompeo: US Military Was Under ‘Political Pressure’ To Carry Out Failed Drone Strike” HERE)

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Pompeo Responds to Biden’s Attempt To Blame Trump for Afghanistan Failure

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday pushed back on the Biden administration for blaming the Trump administration’s Taliban deal for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Pompeo said the Trump administration had a “conditions-based” agreement with the Taliban which was not the same as the plan pursued by President Biden.

MIKE POMPEO: We were clear with the Taliban that we had this understanding–but you were going to live up to it. And we had a conditions-based withdrawal plan and we executed that. We were down from about 15,000 to a little over 2,500. And for the last 13 months of our administration, we didn’t have a single American attacked or a single American killed.

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Mike Pompeo Outlines How Trump Admin Planned to Handle Afghanistan, Taliban

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the Trump administration had a better approach to dealing with Taliban “butchers” and their plan would have led to a more successful withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Pompeo spoke to the Fox Business Network on Monday about U.S. troop drawdown from the country following chaotic scenes in Kabul as the Taliban took the capital city on Sunday. . .

“We had a model where we’d made clear what our red lines were,” Pompeo went on. “We’d made clear the things we were prepared to do to defend them. We could have executed a plan in a way that would have led to the orderly withdrawal.”

“We would have demanded that the Taliban actually deliver on the conditions that we laid out in the agreement – including the agreement to engage in meaningful power sharing agreement – something that we struggled to get them to do but made clear it was going to be a requirement before we completed our requirement to fully withdraw,” he said.

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Pompeo: Probe Into COVID Origins Has Been ‘Suppressed’ (VIDEO)

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday he faced pushback into probing the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus from both within his agency and from the National Institutes of Health.

“[NIH] folks were trying to suppress what we were doing at the State Department as well,” he told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle,” adding that this was in addition to the pushback he normally received at the State Department from those who were against him and former President Trump.

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, however, recently said that he did not dismiss the possibility of a lab leak.

Pompeo said that while China “has no desire for the world to know what happened,” there is already a great deal that is known about what was taking place at the Wuhan lab. (Read more from “Pompeo: Probe Into COVID Origins Has Been ‘Suppressed’ (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Deep State Controlled Ex-Ambassador Trying to Bankrupt Pompeo with $1.8 Million Lawsuit

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President Donald Trump’s former ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is suing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US government to cover $1.8 million in unpaid legal fees he incurred during the House impeachment probe.

The lawsuit claims that Pompeo personally told Sondland — who was denied a government lawyer — that the US government would be able to reimburse him for his legal fees but ultimately reneged on that promise upon learning about Sondland’s explosive 2019 testimony.

Specifically, it claims that Pompeo’s about-face came after Sondland’s became the first impeachment witness to confirm there was a quid pro quo that came from Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at the “express direction of the President.” . . .

A spokesperson for Pompeo told CNN “the lawsuit is ludicrous” and that Pompeo “is confident the court will see it the same way.” (Read more from “Deep State Controlled Ex-Ambassador Trying to Bankrupt Pompeo with $1.8 Million Lawsuit” HERE)

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Pompeo Begins 7-Nation Tour Amid Global Lockdowns and Trump Election Battle

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in a locked down Paris Saturday morning to start a 10-day jaunt across Europe and the Middle East that comes amid a backdrop of the Trump administration’s last-ditch legal efforts to remain in office.

The nation’s top diplomat is likely to offer private assurances to world leaders that if former vice president Joe Biden takes office, the Trump administration will assist with an orderly transition. Many of the leaders Pompeo is scheduled to meet have already congratulated Biden on his win. Pompeo’s seven-nation tour also will take him to several Middle Eastern hotspots—including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—where Iran’s global terrorism operation is likely to be a secondary focal point with world leaders.

Pompeo raised eyebrows on Friday when he stated during a press conference at the State Department that there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” While Pompeo, like other top administration figures, maintains that Trump won the 2020 presidential election, he clarified a day later in an interview with CBS News that an orderly transition will take place before Jan. 20 no matter who is declared the victor.

“Our adversaries should know that we’re ready, we’re continuing to work, we’ll work all the way through January. And then on January 20th, we’ll have a transition, whether it’s to a Trump administration—a second Trump administration as I spoke about today—or to an administration led by former vice president Biden,” Pompeo said. (Read more from “Pompeo Begins 7-Nation Tour Amid Global Lockdowns and Trump Election Battle” HERE)

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