White House Aide Attacks Pompeo Over Iran Deal Criticism

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung launched a profanity-laced personal attack on former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the weekend after Pompeo publicly criticized the Trump administration’s emerging negotiations with Iran, drawing widespread condemnation from commentators and political figures across the spectrum.

Pompeo, who served as CIA director and then secretary of state under President Donald Trump during his first term, wrote on social media that the reported framework of a potential U.S.-Iran agreement “seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook,” referring to officials who helped negotiate the Obama-era nuclear deal. Pompeo described the emerging proposal as “not remotely America First” and argued the United States should instead “open the damned strait” and “take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region.”

Cheung responded with a post on X that included profanity and personal insults directed at Pompeo. “Mike Pompeo has no idea what the f*** he’s talking about,” Cheung wrote. “He should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals. He’s not read into anything...