Pompeo Denounces Information Media, Undermining U.S. Message on Press Freedom

Some newshounds identified that Mr. Pompeo seems to erupt extra steadily at feminine journalists. In an interview with Deirdre Shesgreen of USA Lately final 12 months, Mr. Pompeo at one level repeated her identify 9 occasions: “No, no longer O.Ok., however. Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre, Deirdre. No longer O.Ok., however.”

For some, Mr. Pompeo’s remedy of Ms. Kelly underlined a continual hostility towards ladies. Cathryn Clüver, govt director of the Long run of International relations Venture at Harvard Kennedy College, mentioned, “This secretary of state is a bully and a misogynist.”

Mr. Pompeo’s commentary incorporated a puzzling connection with Bangladesh: “It’s value noting that Bangladesh is NOT Ukraine.”

The road implied, although didn’t in particular assert, that after Mr. Pompeo challenged Ms. Kelly to spot Ukraine, which is in Japanese Europe, on an unlabeled map, she had mistakenly pointed to Bangladesh, in South Asia. Ms. Kelly, who has a grasp’s in Eu research from Cambridge College and has labored in another country, mentioned Friday that she accurately recognized Ukraine.

Mr. Pompeo has been extensively criticized each inside the State Division and out of doors for failing to protect veteran diplomats who testified final fall within the impeachment inquiry and who’ve been attacked publicly by means of Mr. Trump.

Final April, Mr. Pompeo performed a pivotal function in Mr. Trump’s political plans involving Ukraine — on the middle of the impeachment fees — by means of ousting Marie L. Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and an anticorruption recommend. After Ms. Kelly had requested whether or not he owed Ms. Yovanovitch an apology and whether or not he had attempted to dam Mr. Trump’s shadow Ukraine coverage, Mr. Pompeo bring to an end the interview after 9 mins.

“I’ve defended each unmarried individual in this group,” Mr. Pompeo mentioned.

When Mr. Pompeo objected to the Ukraine questions, Ms. Kelly mentioned she had instructed an aide an afternoon previous that it might be an issue of debate.