{"id":1342718,"date":"2022-02-25T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342718"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:08:55","slug":"exclusive-pompeo-rebuts-romney-blaming-america-first-for-ukraine-crisis-only-thing-that-changed-is-biden-not-trump-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-pompeo-rebuts-romney-blaming-america-first-for-ukraine-crisis-only-thing-that-changed-is-biden-not-trump-in-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Pompeo Rebuts Romney Blaming America First for Ukraine Crisis: \u2018Only Thing\u2019 That Changed is Biden not Trump in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-pompeo-rebuts-romney-blaming-america-first-for-ukraine-crisis-only-thing-that-changed-is-biden-not-trump-in-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ORLANDO, Florida \u2014 Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directly rebutted Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who claimed that \u201cAmerica First\u201d ideology is partially to blame for the unfolding crisis in Ukraine, where the Russian regime has invaded and attacked the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) here in central Florida, Pompeo ripped Romney and others who blame America First for this Russian incursion into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that has changed in the last 14 months is President Biden replacing President Trump. Vladimir Putin didn\u2019t change,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cThe situation on the ground didn\u2019t change. You just have a different Secretary of State and a different president. Putin saw the green light. America First protected and defended the things that matter here at home, and it makes like Xi Jinping and Chairman Kim and the Ayatollah stay in their box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney, on Wednesday evening as Russians began their attacks in Ukraine, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/23\/fact-check-mitt-romney-suggests-trump-shares-blame-for-russia-invading-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">factually inaccurate<\/a> statement claiming that \u201cAmerica First\u201d ideology was partially to blame for this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s impunity predictably follows our tepid response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts at a one-sided \u2018reset\u2019 and the shortsightedness of \u2018America First,\u2019\u201d Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/23\/mitt-romney-blames-shortsightedness-america-first-putin-invasion-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in part<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/02\/republicans-ukraine-putin-xi-trump-democracy\/622898\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an op-ed<\/a> on Friday morning in the Atlantic in which she blasted Republicans and former President Donald Trump for \u201cplaying right into Putin\u2019s and Xi\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been four U.S. presidents in the 21st century: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Under three of them\u2014Bush, Obama, and Biden\u2014the Russians engaged in such high levels of hostilities, they led incursions into other countries. Under Trump, the Russians did not do such a thing. Pompeo blasted weakness displayed by globalists as opposed to America First ideology under Trump for the failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you demonstrate weakness, bad guys get frisky,\u201d Pompeo told Breitbart News. \u201cBad guys do exactly what you\u2019re saying to these innocent victims in Kiev and Kharkiv and all across Ukraine today. We had demonstrated we weren\u2019t going to send 50,000 troops to go fight everywhere all the time but we were going to use American tools\u2014America\u2019s economy, America\u2019s power\u2014in ways that were deep and important to protect the things that mattered. When you do that\u2014when you put America First\u2014your friends say \u2018I want to be part of that\u2019 and your adversaries say \u2018I don\u2019t want to be part of that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20019666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mike-Pompeo-Speaking-at-CPAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20019666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mike-Pompeo-Speaking-at-CPAC.jpg\" alt=\"Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo\/John Raoux)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo\/John Raoux)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked if he agrees with comparisons between Biden and Neville Chamberlain\u2014the failed British Prime Minister who infamously inaccurately declared there would be \u201cpeace for our time\u201d in the lead-up to World War II\u2014Pompeo said he is \u201cvery concerned about the risk of cascading crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen this before in American history and in world history even before America where somebody pulls the Jenga pin in one place and the whole darn thing comes crashing down,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that what happened in Afghanistan and what\u2019s happening now in Ukraine, they\u2019re being watched. They\u2019re being watched by the Arab states who are surely saying, \u2018my goodness, the United States was with us and they were prepared to help us.\u2019 I took unmitigated grief for selling the Emiratis and the Saudis weapons systems to help them defend themselves. Our Israeli friends are certainly questioning whether if things get tough in the Middle East, will the United States be with them? Our friends in East Asia must surely be asking if China does something that\u2019s aggressive, will the United States be there? Not with ships and aircraft but with the moral support and all the things that America can bring to power. I do fear that we are at a real moment of peril for stability in the world that matters for Americans. I get asked all the time: Why should I care? I live in Kansas, or I live in Ohio; why should I care? In the end, American preeminence in the world has created the opportunity for massive prosperity at home. This instability, this risk, where America is being overpowered by other nations will mean that America is in decline. An America in decline never creates prosperity, never creates health, never creates freedom, never creates an expanded set of liberties here at home as well. In the short run, we\u2019ll have higher gasoline prices because of what\u2019s happening in Ukraine. I come from Kansas\u2014red winter wheat, 25 percent of it comes from Russia or Ukraine. Food will be more expensive. I\u2019m not allowed to eat bread anymore with my new diet, but bread will be more expensive. These things matter to the American people and good leaders will both communicate that and protect Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On another note, too, Pompeo said he is following the release of bombshell revelations from Breitbart News contributor Peter Schweizer\u2019s new book Red Handed\u2014including key details about President Biden and several of his family members receiving $31 million in deals from people connected to Chinese Communist Party intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am following that,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cThere is no doubt we need to learn more about what took place there and that the Chinese Communist Party has been working against American leaders both in office and out of office\u2014governors, city councilmen, family members\u2014to undermine, co-opt, and coerce them and we need to make sure our political leaders have not been impacted by that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Florida \u2014 Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directly rebutted Sen. 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