Pompeo: ‘No Administration’ Was Tougher on Russia Than the Trump Admin

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending the Trump administration’s approach to the nation’s relationship with Russia. While speaking with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, Pompeo said , “There was no administration…

Savannah RychcikJun 14, 20213 min read

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Pompeo explained, “Well, Chris, you said it yourself, they didn’t complete the pipeline. We’d imposed real sanctions on the ships that were doing the construction, the insurers that were underwriting it. We made clear that that pipeline was not going to be completed. It would not have been completed had we had four more years, I’m very, very confident of that.”

He argued the Trump administration was also “tough” in speaking out against human rights abuses, “I’m proud of the work we did there. It was good work, it was serious work, and it made a difference.”

Last week, the former president released a statement speaking highly of his meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018 and took a swipe at President Joe Biden ahead of his meeting with Putin.

“Good luck to Biden in dealing with President Putin – don’t fall asleep during the meeting, and please give him my warmest regards,” Trump said.

NBC News’ Keir Simmons asked Putin how Biden is different from Trump, as IJR reported.

“Even now I believe that former U.S. president Mr. Trump is an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become U.S. president. He’s a colorful individual,” Putin said.

He added, “You may like him or not. But he didn’t come from the U.S. establishment, he had not been part of big time politics before, and some like it, some don’t like it, but that is a fact.”

Putin called Biden “radically different” from Trump, saying Biden is “the career man.”

Biden will meet with Putin on Wednesday.