Pompeo Says A State Department Official Has Died From Coronavirus | Talking Points Memo

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a State Department official has died from the coronavirus, the first American fatality among the U.S. diplomatic corps from the pandemic.


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I don’t know what to say about this, it wasn’t unexpected, but then Petty PompousAss will just soldier on carrying Trump’s banner.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a State Department official has died from the coronavirus,

Time for McConnellesque link to Hillary and Benghazi.

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Pompeo response? Staff attrition, nothing more…

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Didn’t he mean to say the “Wuhan” virus?

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Rest In Peace.

Truth be told…Too bad it not someone more deserving Covid!

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He will blame Democrats, the media, Obama and the nurses.

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Did someone actually see and hear him say it…I mean it wasn’t him was it…asking for a sick friend, mentally sick, not coronavirus sick.

State Dept’s already been infested by Matthew Gebert who showed up at the Charlottesville nationalist rally.

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The kung flu affects only embedded members of the Deep State Department. Correctly oriented cadres are immune

The Chinese virus, and he doesn’t want to ask Chinese Americans as well as Japanese Americans what their fellow Americans are doing to them.

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As Trump previously threatened, “going to go through some things”.

Trump will say,“You knew what you signed up for”.
Sorry that what is Trump said to our Gold Star families.

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Welp, charming how no name, no assignment, no thanks for his/her service, no nod to the sorrow of their family/friends/coworkers. Jeez, I hate this pompous ass.

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Yeah, what’s up with that? No “out of respect to their family we are not disclosing the name?” More like an intentional omission, presumably because the point of this announcement was “See, we’re reducing our payroll!”

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There’s some glimmer of hope out there: Liberty University, many evangelical churches, thousands of right-wingers, hordes of conservatives across the country continue to gather in large groups in order to “own the libs”. Huzzah!

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Darwin awards all around.

Trumpsters all ways need scapegoats.

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We need to repeat this OVER and Over again:

Pompeo is the single WORST U.S. Secretary of State ever – let it be his epitaph!

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Someone should ask, “Was it anyone you vilified and ignored because you thought President Trump would want you to?”

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