Trump Secretary of State just flubbed basic history in embarrassing attack tweet

President Trump vowed to bring only the best and the brightest people into his administration after he was “elected,” but, like the vast majority of his claims, his words have no basis in actual evidence.

The president’s latest Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo — who replaced Rex Tillerson last year after his predecessor called Trump a”f*cking moron,” “dumb as a rock,” and “lazy as hell” — demonstrated that Trump decided to choose a cabinet member more on his own intellectual level when he jettisoned Tillerson.

The evidence, in this case, is a tweet that Secretary Pompeo sent earlier today commemorating the anniversary of the release of 52 American hostages from Iranian captivity during the Iranian revolution that brought down the U.S.-backed Shah.

Secretary Pompeo ✔@SecPompeo 40 years ago today, extremists in Iran released 52 American diplomats they held hostage for 444 days. Iran still holds innocent Americans hostage. 6,504 5,891 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy

It was a tweet that would have elicited little controversy but for the inconvenient fact that Secretary Pompeo’s mangled sense of history led him to send out a completely inaccurate anniversary tribute.

Walter Shaub, the former head of the United States Office of Government Ethics, saw Pompeo’s erroneous tweet and felt compelled to straighten out the facts in his reply. Read more

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Trump Secretary of State just flubbed basic history in embarrassing attack tweet

President Trump vowed to bring only the best and the brightest people into his administration after he was “elected,” but, like the vast majority of his claims, his words have no basis in actual evidence.