White House blasts Cruz, Pompeo for trashing Trump peace efforts as Iran appeasement
While President Donald Trump was burning the midnight oil hammering out a last-minute peace and denuclearization deal with Iran, his White House inner circle was hammering the critics from the...
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While President Donald Trump was burning the midnight oil hammering out a last-minute peace and denuclearization deal with Iran, his White House inner circle was hammering the critics from the right for either working to "undermine" peace efforts or "illegally" abusing residual security clearance. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Fox News contributor, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, received X criticism from some of Trump's top inner circle advisors, including White House communications director Steven Cheung, deputy assistant on counterterror Sebastian Gorka and outside political advisor Alex Bruesewitz. "Mike Pompeo has no idea what the f--- he's talking about," Cheung wrote in a scathing X post Saturday night . "He should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals. He's not read into anything that’s happening, so how would he know." The Pompeo post that drew the ire suggested an impending Trump deal would wind up being an Obama-era-esque capitulation to Iran's ongoing nuclear weapons aspirations. MORNING GLORY: PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST REJECT A SECOND MUNICH AND HOLD FIRM AGAIN IRAN "The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world," Pompeo wrote on X . "Not remotely America First." "It's straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region. "Overdue. Let's go." MIKE POMPEO: TRUMP'S IRAN STRIKES SHOW WORLD WHAT 'AMERICA FIRST' FOREIGN POLICY LOOKS LIKE Gorka, while confirming nothing from Pompeo's post, did suggest the former secretary of state might be "illegally" abusing his residual high security clearance. "You have no knowledge of what is being negotiated in secret," Gorka wrote on X . "If you did, you would be in possession of information illegally provided to you and which you are wholly unauthorized to have or to share…