The day after the Trump administration attacked the protesters around St. John's Church with flash-bang grenades and tear gas on the orders of Attorney General William Barr, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, met with Chinese survivors of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
That was genuinely what the propagandizing criminal did. The ex-House Republican—who in his Trump administration role facilitated the extortion of Ukraine in Trump’s attempt to secure election help, who lied about it, and who continues to refuse to appear before Congress to testify about it to this day—chose to deliver statements of empty concern over other nations mounting military attacks on their citizens to punish them for protesting against corrupt, authoritarian leadership.
Pompeo is an evil man. He is evil, and contemptuous, and corrupt, and still mired in yet another scandal over his use of federal officers as his own personal errand boys. But for him to pretend at any moral authority fewer than 24 hours after he abetted yet another attack on American democracy, and Americans themselves, only adds to our national shame.