Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and President Biden over their coronavirus vaccination mandate's repercussions.
President-elect Joe Biden looks as retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, Biden's choice to be secretary of defense, speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. and Vladimir Putin aren't worried about the vaccines. They're worried about making their militaries more capable," he said.
"We should be focused on the same thing. There's a real risk to readiness, a real risk to making sure that we have units that are capable of deploying should something be required of them."POMPEO: BIDEN'S TAIWAN COMMENTS SIMILAR TO OBAMA'S ‘RED LINE’ IN SYRIA Pompeo said Biden's successor should reinstate every guardsmen cut or effectively rubber-roomed by this administration.
He also called out the left-wing media for criticizing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on account of his assassination earlier Friday, as CBS News, the AP and NPR all had politically critical things to say about the leader."It's sick to see these left-wing media folks go after a man who was just assassinated," he said."There is a reason he was the longest serving prime minister. The people of Japan loved him and revered him. He'd become a friend of mine, too.
Pompeo and his former boss Donald Trump were close with Abe, as the ex-president released a glowing statement calling Abe a"unifier" saying,"few people know what a great man and leader Shinzo Abe was — but history will teach them and be kind."Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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