Thread by @PaulaChertok

Yikes! I'm beginning to think the people around Trump are ok w/ his mobster character & threats b/c they're pretty thuggish themselves.

Case in point: Mike Pompeo. If I were @NPRKelly, I'd feel threatened by his intimidating outburst about Ukraine, in a private State Dept room.

https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1220838347767238657

@NPRKelly 🚨US Secy of State, folks: "Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked,

'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'

He then said, 'People will hear about this.'" npr.org/2020/01/24/799… #Maddow

@NPRKelly Everyone is Trump. Pompeo flips his indecency w/ a reporter onto her—adding personal & professional smears. He tries discrediting @NPRKelly report by claiming she's part of an "unhinged" conspiratorial "media agenda." And never actually denies his outrageous remark about Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/cjf39/status/1221092305005948928

@NPRKelly Also very disturbing in @NPRKelly's #Pompeo interview: "People will hear about this," he shouted, angry about being asked Qs on #Ukraine.

What did he mean? Get her fired? Sic tweeter-in-chief on her? Call Koch Bro pals to defund @NPR??

All possible in this authoritarian admin.