Pompeo Berates NPR Reporter Over Ukraine

[iluvatar5150]

Pompeo refuses to defend Yovanovitch then swears at a reporter after being confronted over Ukraine:

Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Pompeo berated, cursed at NPR reporter over Ukraine questions, she says

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room.

A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."

Apparently he didn’t think the reporter could find Ukraine on a map.

He was not happy to have been questioned about Ukraine. He asked, 'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?' He used the F word in that sentence, and many others," she said.


"He asked if I could find Ukraine on a map I said, 'Yes,' he called out for his aides to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries marked. I pointed to Ukraine he put the map away, he said, people will hear about this, and then he turned and said he had things to do, and I thanked him again for his time and left."

Transcript of the interview:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo

 

[Kentonio]

Pompeo refuses to defend Yovanovitch then swears at a reporter after being confronted over Ukraine:

Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Pompeo berated, cursed at NPR reporter over Ukraine questions, she says



Apparently he didn’t think the reporter could find Ukraine on a map.



Transcript of the interview:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo

The bare faced dishonesty is amazing. Pompeo making repeated cast iron claims and then absolutely refusing to provide any evidence whatsoever to support them.

They really have completely bought into the old adage that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth.

Huge respect to the reporter for holding his feet to the flames though. If all the press did their jobs properly like that, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.

 

[wing2000]

Trump needs to coach his Secretary of State on the art of lying.

 

[DaisyDay]

Apparently he didn’t think the reporter could find Ukraine on a map.

He didn't say, notice, but he implied that Kelly pointed to Bangladesh rather than Ukraine. Now Kelly not only has been reporting on global issues, but she has a degrees in government from Harvard and a Masters in European studies from Cambridge - but he wants us to believe that she doesn't know East Europe from South Asia.

 

[wing2000]

He didn't say, notice, but he implied that Kelly pointed to Bangladesh rather than Ukraine. Now Kelly not only has been reporting on global issues, but she has a degrees in government from Harvard and a Masters in European studies from Cambridge - but he wants us to believe that she doesn't know East Europe from South Asia.

I think Kelly should challenge Pompeo to a geography bee and see who wins.....

 

[wing2000]

....and he really issued a formal statement? .....awww, poor Mike, his ego must be hurtin...

 

[DaisyDay]

....and he really issued a formal statement? .....awww, poor Mike, his ego must be hurtin...

Yep, and the man who cursed out the reporter in his private office calls the media "unhinged" - projection much?

 

[durangodawood]

What a jerk.

Bangladesh? Does he think everybody is complete idiot? ...otoh, this is America we're dealing with.

 

[wing2000]

.....in a Saturday interview with All Things Considered, NPR President and CEO, John Lansing, also came to Kelly's defense.

"Mary Louise Kelly is one of the most respected, truthful, factual, professional and ethical journalists in the United States, and that's known by the entire press corps," Lansing told host Michel Martin. "And I stand behind her and I stand behind the NPR newsroom, and the statement from the secretary of state is blatantly false."

Lansing allowed that tensions can and do arise when journalists ask officials hard questions.

"But this goes well beyond tension — this goes towards intimidation," Lansing said. "And let me just say this: we will not be intimidated. Mary Louise Kelly won't be intimidated, and NPR won't be intimidated."

After Contentious Interview, Pompeo Publicly Accuses NPR Journalist Of Lying To Him

 

[cow451]

Pompeo refuses to defend Yovanovitch then swears at a reporter after being confronted over Ukraine:

Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Pompeo berated, cursed at NPR reporter over Ukraine questions, she says



Apparently he didn’t think the reporter could find Ukraine on a map.



Transcript of the interview:
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo

Poor Mikey got his feelings hurt. Those mean old media people using his words against him.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Apparently the Washington Post has obtained the email exchange between Pompeo's aide and Mary Louise Kelly, in which she makes it perfectly clear that she's going to ask about Ukraine:

“Just wanted to touch base that we still intend to keep the interview to Iran tomorrow,” Martin wrote. “Know you just got back from Tehran so we would like to stick to Iran as the topic as opposed to jumping around. Is that something we can agree to?”

Kelly responded, “I am indeed just back from Tehran and plan to start there. Also Ukraine. And who knows what the news gods will serve up overnight. I never agree to take anything off the table.”

Martin replied, “Totally understand you want to ask other topics but just hoping . . . we can stick to that topic for a healthy portion of the interview . . . Wouldn’t want to spend the interview on questions he’s answered many times for the last several months.”

Kelly: “My plan is to start with Iran and, yes, to spend a healthy portion of the interview there. Iran has been my focus of late as well. And yes — I also would not want to waste time on questions he’s answered many times in recent months.”

Now, it's possible that he (or his aide) misunderstood her agreement on "not asking questions that have been answered many times before" to mean that she wouldn't ask about Yovanovitch, but that's a pretty rookie mistake.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...93cf0e-4071-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html

 

[iluvatar5150]

Apparently the Washington Post has obtained the email exchange between Pompeo's aide and Mary Louise Kelly, in which she makes it perfectly clear that she's going to ask about Ukraine:



Now, it's possible that he (or his aide) misunderstood her agreement on "not asking questions that have been answered many times before" to mean that she wouldn't ask about Yovanovitch, but that's a pretty rookie mistake.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...93cf0e-4071-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html

Only the best people.

How to handle a gaslighter:
Kelly And Pompeo: How A Journalist Masterfully Combated Gaslighting

 

[DaisyDay]

It's obvious now how he gets on so well with his boss - two peas in a pod.

 

[wing2000]

....from Bolten's book (...may explain in part why Pompeo is so touchy over Ukraine):

He writes that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said privately that there was nothing to the Trump team’s claims that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was corrupt — suggesting that this was indeed a smear campaign and that Pompeo recognized it as such, even as he didn’t defend Yovanovitch publicly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ell-gives-gop-glimpse-its-nightmare-scenario/

 

[lasthero]

He didn't say, notice, but he implied that Kelly pointed to Bangladesh rather than Ukraine. Now Kelly not only has been reporting on global issues, but she has a degrees in government from Harvard and a Masters in European studies from Cambridge - but he wants us to believe that she doesn't know East Europe from South Asia.

This entire administration is clown shoes.

 

[FireDragon76]

Trump didn't drain the swamp, he filled it full of even more swamp critters.

 

[camille70]

Pompeo kicked NPR off his flight this week. A different reporter was supposed to join him.

State Dept. Will Not Allow NPR Reporter on Pompeo’s Plane Following Interview

Lara Jakes on Twitter

Gen Michael Hayden on Twitter

 

[wing2000]

Pompeo kicked NPR off his flight this week. A different reporter was supposed to join him.

State Dept. Will Not Allow NPR Reporter on Pompeo’s Plane Following Interview

Lara Jakes on Twitter

Gen Michael Hayden on Twitter

...yes, there isn't enough room on Pompeo's flight for a reporter that doesn't back down to his gaslighting and f-bombs.

 

[camille70]

...yes, there isn't enough room on Pompeo's flight for a reporter that doesn't back down to his gaslighting and f-bombs.

This was a different reporter who works for the same organization.it was in retaliation though, imo.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Sadly but predictably, Trump's response has been to wonder why the government supports NPR financially, when it serves up facts instead of Trump propaganda.