Chris Coons: I Can’t Support Pompeo Because of His Statements About Muslim Americans and the LGBT Community

‘It was absolutely shameful and will be remarked in the history books as such’

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COONS: "Well, Joe, I think, like all of my Democratic colleagues on the committee, my vote was mostly driven by things Mike Pompeo said and did as a candidate for Congress and as a congressman. In his conduct in the Benghazi hearings, in statements he’s made about regime change and in belligerent past statements he’s made and in particular some statements he made about Muslim Americans and the LGBT community. But I agree with a number of the things you said, Joe, that a secretary of state has to speak for the president, should be someone who really advocates for the career professionals in the State Department and should be in the room with the president able to really advocate for diplomacy. Those were things that Rex Tillerson, because of the bad chemistry he had with the President and his real lack of connection to the State Department, wasn’t successful at."

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