'The question is so troubling': Pompeo on defense over Trump administration's response to protests

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Pompeo lashed out at a reporter who pressed him on the White House decision to forcibly remove peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square, and how that squared with his condemnations of China for sweeping crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

on Wednesday trumpeted the United States as a beacon of"freedom" and"democratic values" across the globe, but quickly found himself on the defensive over the Trump administration's response to the nationwide protests at home sparked by the killing of George Floyd.remove peaceful protesters

"They repress their people, and they bludgeon their people, and they burn down their religious facilities, and they deny journalists – you all – a chance to ask a question of a secretary of state," Pompeo said. In Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam accused the United States of a “double standard” for blasting China's attempts to stifle Hong Kong protests while taking a hard line on the protesters in the US.

 

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Pathetic how some journalists dont do homework. In the past year of HK DemocracyMovement rallies, not one single looting, robbery, killing done by protesters who r largely peaceful except being provoked by commie police dogs deliberately to make arrests torturing, abducting them.

JimmyLai Joshua etc should immediately make arrangement to flee HK. Locking up in a commie jail is no martyre but a waste of your precious soul that could benefit 1day to rebuild HK after ChinaCriminalParty collapses. Right now impossible for small HK to bring to a CCP down fall.

12k empty-handed HKers are killed or disappeared by commie police dogs at instructions of ChinaCriminalParty since Jun2019, thousands more beaten up, raped or locked up with ZERO consequence. The dogs who injured most protesters are promoted & given praises by commie dogs chief

Answer the questions SecPompeo and stop trying to create Racial Tension and a Civil War. Trump violates the Constitution on a regular basis. Why are you supporting him?

Because it’s not true it has been proven not true and because your reporters are not smart enough to come up with new questions is your problem

He has always been a double standard, just like his habit, please treat him as a joke.

Yeah it IS troubling because it sure looks like “a moral equivalency between” what Trump did—and what the GOP allowed and encouraged him to do—and what happens in China and other authoritarian countries. Cartoon credit claytoonz voteblue

Do as we say, not as we do.

Emulating his boss.

So porky pompeo SecPompeo mikepompeo this is America and the press can ask whatever questions they want.

Enough with the intellectual BS and answer the question SecPompeo

Why is it that Pompeo always smells like trumps ass

Pompeo character is really questionable at this time. He is busy running around the world doing Trump's bidding and causing other nations to stand against America.

Cowards following a coward

'The question is so troubling' No Mike, the subject of the question and your hypocrisy about it are what's troubling.

If you aren’t going to tell the truth, yelling at the questioner is an attempt to refocus the issue.

Pompeo has no credibility. No confidence in Pompeo.

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