Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared irritated almost immediately during Friday’s Iran hearing on Capitol Hill as Democrats used their very first question to grill the top US diplomat on the administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
That initial exchange set the tone as several Democrats seized the opportunity to make their frustrations known, drawing parallels between the Trump administration’s shifting explanations justifying the strike that killed Iranian commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani earlier this year and the President’s foreign policy more broadly.
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