Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department’s new senior DEI hire will “destroy” the foreign affairs agency and make America “less safe” in an interview Friday with Fox News Digital.
Zakiya Carr Johnson was hired by the State Department last week as chief officer of diversity, equity and inclusion. Fox News Digital exposed her past anti-American remarks, including her saying the U.S. represented a “failed historical model” embedded with racism, colonialism and other isms. Carr Johnson has also called for tradition to be dismantled.
Pompeo believes Carr Johnson’s hire was part of the “Biden administration’s core commitment… to inflict a divisive, un-American, Marxist dogma on the American people.”
“I don’t think [the State Department] frankly believes it. I think they’re catering to the progressive left of their base in an election year, and the harm is that they will destroy the State Department in this way, and, frankly, the capacity of America to deliver the diplomacy that other nations around the world are counting on,” he told Fox News Digital.
Pompeo added that years ago he “never would have dreamed” such divisive language would be embraced in the federal government.
“So this progressive [movement]… becoming so radicalized is something that has moved very quickly, spread rapidly, and if not put in check will only continue to metastasize in ways that undermine our republic,” he said.
The State Department has doubled down in defending Carr Johnson, touting her as an expert in the field of DEI.
“When I hear someone say that the State Department is now requiring – forcing – people to speak about a certain set of issues in a way that they may or may not agree with, that’s really kind of a dangerous place for a nation to find itself in,” he said. “To think that the senior leadership at the State Department would condone something like that, I find it antithetical to my understanding of what has made America such a special, exceptional nation.”
“When I was the Secretary of State, we told people, ‘You’re going to get promoted when you deliver good outcomes on behalf of the United States of America, real diplomatic success, real technical success,’” Pompeo continued. “We didn’t care what race you were. We didn’t care if you mouthed the right words. None of those things were relevant to promotions and hiring. We were looking for talent.”
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