New York Times Slams Mike Pompeo For Doing His Job

It’s official. The wheels are up. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed back to the United States with three Americans who were imprisoned in North Korea.

I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018

Secretary Pompeo and his “guests” will be landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 2:00 A.M. in the morning. I will be there to greet them. Very exciting!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018

Whether you like Trump or not, you have to admit that this is great news. Unless of course you work for the New York Times and have no idea how Pompeo’s job actually works. Look at this headline and let me know if you can even. Chances are you can’t.

Really?

Mr. Trump soon replaced Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, who has promised to bring back the State Department’s “swagger” and import. But on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump made what could be the most significant diplomatic announcement of his presidency — that he would exit the Iran nuclear agreement — his chief diplomat was again thousands of miles away, this time on an unannounced visit to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, to lay further groundwork for a summit meeting between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.

The absence of Mr. Pompeo and other top State Department officials left perplexed European diplomats privately complaining that they were having trouble getting answers from Washington, and created an uncertainty about what was next that spanned the Atlantic Ocean.

Senior State Department officials were momentarily speechless on Tuesday when asked why Mr. Pompeo did not delay his trip by a day to be in Washington during Mr. Trump’s Iran deal announcement. Mr. Pompeo left for Pyongyang on Monday night.

Are you serious, NYT? He was just doing some more legwork ahead of Trump’s big meeting AND secured the release of American prisoners. They’re acting like he was sippin’ on margaritas at a luxury resort in Bora Bora.

NYT owes Pompeo an apology.

I’d say traveling to North Korea to secure the release of 3 American prisoners of North Korea is a good thing @nytimes, no? pic.twitter.com/j5UTpEokST

— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) May 9, 2018

That headline is such a joke but I can’t seem to laugh at this kind of stuff anymore, main stream journalism is dead

— Mikey James (@Michael47755467) May 9, 2018

Live pic of the @nytimes pic.twitter.com/fH17VCQUSo

— John Casey (@johncasey671) May 9, 2018

It doesn’t surprise me that the failing New York Times would say something as stupid as this

— God Emperor Of America (@ShapelibShifter) May 9, 2018

Funny how the headline was “At a Key Moment, Trump’s Top Diplomat Is Again Thousands of Miles Away.”

Taking swipes at him while he’s releasing the 3 americans held in North Korea? Really?

Guy has been in office for less than a week and he’s accomplished what Kerry couldn’t.

— Abroham Lincoln (@ABROHAM_L1NCOLN) May 9, 2018

This is extremely lousy journalism. I know I’m wasting my breath, but do better, NYT.

h/t Twitchy

Update: Trump is annoyed.

The Failing New York Times criticized Secretary of State Pompeo for being AWOL (missing), when in fact he was flying to North Korea. Fake News, so bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018