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'Woops': Critics Catch Mike Pompeo's 'Freudian Slip' On Fox News

The former secretary of state told Laura Ingraham conservatives are often a bigger threat to the U.S. than China.
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Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, left critics bemused on Thursday with an apparent slip-up on Fox News that some commenters viewed as a rare moment of honesty.

“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party? Fox News’ Laura Ingraham asked Pompeo.

“Because, in fact, we often are,” replied Pompeo, a potential 2024 GOP presidential contender, before launching into his talking point attacking “the left” for what he called its “deep ties” to communism.

A roasting inevitably ensued: 

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