Pompeo: ‘Rudy Doesn’t Speak For The Administration’ On North Korea

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks in the press breifing room at the White House in Washington, DC on June 7, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday politely told President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to stay in his lane.

Giuliani on Wednesday said that that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got “on his hands and knees and begged” that the cancelled summit between him and Trump be rescheduled.

“I took him as being in a small room and not being serious about the comments,” Pompeo told a reporter Thursday, asked if he thought Giuliani’s comments were appropriate. “I think it was a bit in jest.”

“I know Rudy,” Pompeo added. “Rudy doesn’t speak for the administration when it comes to this negotiation and this set of issues.”

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  1. Pompeo has begun to realize he’s dealing with three (3) raving lunatics, Dotard, KJU, and Ghouliani…

  2. Translation: Rudy the loose cannon, STFU!

  3. Another knee slapping joke. Who said they didn’t have a sense of humor?

  4. I imagine any remaining senior career diplomats are already weary of telling their opposite numbers that Rudy’s boss doesn’t speak for the administration either.

  5. Let see how this warning works out. Giuliani will try to talk it back and make a bigger a-hole out of himself.

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