Mike Pompeo, right, with Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show
Mike Pompeo, who served as former U.S. Secretary of State under the Trump administration, caused a bit of confusion with his recent slip-up on live television.
But, according to HuffPost, some critics saw the jaw-dropping slip-up as "a rare moment of honesty" for the former government official who has a history of sharing false narratives. During his appearance on Fox News with Laura Ingraham asked Pompeo: "Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party?"
“Because, in fact, we often are," Pompeo answered before veering off into a rant to explain why he believes the so-called "left" has "'deep ties' to communism,'" The Post notes.
woops.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517326759066148865\u00a0\u2026— Brian Tyler Cohen (@Brian Tyler Cohen) 1650596958
As expected, Twitter users immediately weighed in with their reactions to Pompeo's remarks. One user tweeted, "Having spent two years reporting on Pompeo, I can attest to how dangerous he is. He turned USAID into a rogue playground for right-wing extremists."
Another user wrote, "Wow. He almost accidentally tells the truth for a split second but then ruins it with an avalanche of bullshit. The @GOP is so “anti-communist” that they’ve been compromised by Russia since the mid-90’s."
Wow. He almost accidentally tells the truth for a split second but then ruins it with an avalanche of bullshit. The @GOP is so \u201canti-communist\u201d that they\u2019ve been compromised by Russia since the mid-90\u2019s.— Andrew Wortman \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Andrew Wortman \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1650594032
Having spent two years reporting on Pompeo, I can attest to how dangerous he is. He turned USAID into a rogue playground for right-wing extremists.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517326759066148865\u00a0\u2026— Victoria Brownworth (@Victoria Brownworth) 1650595864
I think this is what\u2019s called a Freudian sliphttps://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517326759066148865\u00a0\u2026— Santiago Mayer \ud83c\udf3b (@Santiago Mayer \ud83c\udf3b) 1650596790
woops.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517326759066148865\u00a0\u2026— Brian Tyler Cohen (@Brian Tyler Cohen) 1650596958
Their Freudian slips are just <chef kiss>— Alf (@Alf) 1650594494
pic.twitter.com/cvgijEXQKG— Attorney-at-Law (@Attorney-at-Law) 1650593932
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