Mike Pompeo says the idea of Trump as a threat to U.S. security is 'absolutely ludicrous'

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on CBS

"The notion that President Trump is a threat to American national security is absolutely ludicrous," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Saturday preview clip of a CBS Face the Nation interview set to air in full Sunday.

Pompeo was speaking in response to question from host Margaret Brennan about a Friday evening New York Times report. The story said "right after President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, the FBI began investigating whether President Trump himself was a potential threat to national security and whether he'd been working for Russia or unintentionally influenced by Moscow," Brennan summarized.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.