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Comment by paganel

14 hours ago

You and I are private citizens, he’s former US Secretary of State, let’s quit the charade.

“Former” is operative. I don’t see any reason to believe that Pompeo has special insider knowledge here, and sharing it makes zero sense even if he did. The more parsimonious explanation is that he’s a sidelined grifter whose only way to stay relevant is to speculate on social media.