The Trump Administration
Pompeo
Pompeo
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
Day 721
Thursday 10 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 20
This is exaggerated. [...] This needs context. [...] This is misleading.
Day 720
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 19
...as part of his tour to reassure regional allies of the US' commitment to security and stability in the Middle East amid a shifting Syria strategy.
Day 692
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Pompeo said the media's reporting on the assessment "has been inaccurate," while declining to say what was false.
Day 687
Friday 7 December 2018
Day 657
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Pompeo’s meeting was scheduled for Thursday. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said it would now take place “at a later date.”
Day 636
Wednesday 17 October 2018
"I don’t want to talk about any of the facts," Pompeo said [...] "They didn’t want to either"
Day 635
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Pompeo [...] appeared less intent on determining the truth than in helping the de facto Saudi ruler escape from the crisis he triggered.
Day 629
Wednesday 10 October 2018
How has Chief of Staff John Kelly managed to keep his job in spite of convincing and persistent rumors and reports that the president is unhappy with him, and he is unhappy in his job?
Day 627
Monday 8 October 2018
Pompeo wants you to believe North Korea just gave up something big. It didn’t.
The sharp tit-for-tat stripped away the customary veneer of diplomatic niceties during public remarks.
Day 626
Sunday 7 October 2018
...one of the main sticking points over an earlier denuclearization pledge.
Day 607
Tuesday 18 September 2018
...an unusual appearance for the top U.S. diplomat, whose role generally requires avoiding partisan affairs.
Day 603
Friday 14 September 2018
A spokesman for Kerry ridiculed Pompeo's assertion that Kerry was acting in unprecedented ways, adding that Kerry had briefed Pompeo on his conversations with Iranian officials
Day 584
Sunday 26 August 2018
Day 582
Friday 24 August 2018
Trump said the negotiations had been hindered by a lack of support from China
Day 581
Thursday 23 August 2018
Pompeo announced on Thursday that he'll be traveling to North Korea next week along with Stephen Biegun
Day 580
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Day 561
Friday 3 August 2018
...accusing its government of refusing to respect a promise to President Trump to stop, or even slow, Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
Mr. Brunson’s imprisonment has threatened to plunge fraught relations with Turkey, a vital NATO ally, into crisis.
Day 544
Tuesday 17 July 2018
...to answer questions about Trump’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Day 537
Tuesday 10 July 2018
Pompeo was in North Korea last week and took along a copy of the British singer's CD with the "Rocket Man" song that Trump had signed
Day 511
Thursday 14 June 2018
“We are going to get the complete denuclearization,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters. “Only then will there be relief from sanctions.”
Day 503
Wednesday 6 June 2018
While the hawkish Bolton ... is expected to be in Singapore for the talks on Tuesday, Pompeo has taken the lead as the administration assumes a softer tone toward Pyongyang ahead of the summit
Day 497
Thursday 31 May 2018
It would be “nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste,” Mr. Pompeo said after two and a half hours of discussions with Kim Yong-chol
Day 495
Tuesday 29 May 2018
North Korea’s top nuclear weapons negotiator was headed for New York on Tuesday and plans to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Day 481
Tuesday 15 May 2018
The moves have been met with relief by diplomats and State Department observers, who were outraged by former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson’s attempts to severely cut the department’s budget and staffing.
Day 479
Sunday 13 May 2018
The promise not to invade North Korea or otherwise seek Kim’s overthrow would be incentive for him to give up his nuclear weapons.
Day 477
Friday 11 May 2018
Pompeo said he insisted to Kim that a "robust verification" by inspectors would have to be part of any deal to ensure that Kim had "fully denuclearized".
Day 475
Wednesday 9 May 2018
North Korea released three American prisoners into the custody of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Day 465
Sunday 29 April 2018
“There is a lot of work to do, but I am very hopeful that the conditions that have been set by President Trump give us this chance.”
Day 459
Monday 23 April 2018
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a late pivot on Monday evening, approved the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state, after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure from President Trump and dropped his opposition.
It has been more than 70 years since a cabinet nominee had such a hard time making it out of the Senate while still being confirmed.
Day 455
Thursday 19 April 2018
Day 454
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Trump declared on Wednesday that he would scrap a planned summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, or even walk out of the session while it was underway, if his diplomatic overture was not heading toward success.
The CIA director is facing a narrow Senate confirmation vote to be Trump's next top diplomat, and supporters say the high-stakes trip proves he can handle the job.
Day 447
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Democrats clashed with Mike Pompeo during his confirmation hearing for secretary of state Thursday, trying to get clear answers from an often-evasive CIA director who contradicted himself on issues
“We expect Director Pompeo to be able to explain exactly what financial entanglement he had with the Chinese government and why he failed to disclose it”
Day 421
Friday 16 March 2018
The White House’s decision to use intelligence, rather than diplomatic, channels in communicating with the North Koreans speaks to the influence of Mike Pompeo
Day 418
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Trump said Tuesday he is replacing Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo in his place.
Day 315
Thursday 30 November 2017
The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, perhaps within the next several weeks
Day 300
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Pompeo has told associates that he expects the president to tap him for the position and that he’d accept the job if it’s offered to him.
Day 292
Tuesday 7 November 2017
The implications here are pretty big: a U.S. president telling his CIA director to meet with someone pitching what the intelligence community basically regards as a conspiracy theory.
Day 152
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Trump entrusted him with the nation’s secrets despite knowing that he faced a Justice Department investigation over his undisclosed foreign lobbying.
Day 151
Monday 19 June 2017
CIA chief Mike Pompeo spends three hours almost every day driving downtown from Langley to brief the president, and he’s not alone.
Trump demands facetime with his appointees in part because he doesn’t trust bureaucrats who do the day-to-day work of the federal government. The president shuns them as tools of what he often refers to as the “deep state,” and blames them for the frequent, unflattering news stories coming from his White House
Day 4
Monday 23 January 2017
Mr. Pompeo, a congressman from Kansas, was approved on a 66-32 vote