An abdication of the values his department stands for has been the mark of his tenure. It is both sad and dangerous, to use Pompeo’s words, that he has so damaged the State Department’s reputation, built over centuries of service and sacrifice. A lie is an outright falsehood, by the way, and I have no idea how a half-truth is fully spun. With respect to one million Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps, Bolton says that Trump backed President Xi Jinping. “Trump said Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

Source: International New York Times June 19, 2020 23:48 UTC