Of course, while the NYT was attacking Trump and Pompeo, because the SECSTATE wasn’t by the presidnet’s side as he announced his JCPOA decision, Pompeo was en route to Pyongyang to meet with Kim Jong-Un to finalize plans for the summit and to work out the details of the release of three Americans, now safely back in the US.
Bottom line! Don’t believe everything you read in the Times.
Mr. Trump soon replaced Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, who has promised to bring back the State Department’s “swagger” and import. But on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump made what could be the most significant diplomatic announcement of his presidency — that he would exit the Iran nuclear agreement — his chief diplomat was again thousands of miles away, this time on an unannounced visit to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, to lay further groundwork for a summit meeting between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.
The absence of Mr. Pompeo and other top State Department officials left perplexed European diplomats privately complaining that they were having trouble getting answers from Washington, and created an uncertainty about what was next that spanned the Atlantic Ocean.
Senior State Department officials were momentarily speechless on Tuesday when asked why Mr. Pompeo did not delay his trip by a day to be in Washington during Mr. Trump’s Iran deal announcement. Mr. Pompeo left for Pyongyang on Monday night.
THE ABYSS BECKONS! 