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According to Former Sec. of State Pompeo, the Award for ‘Most Dangerous Person in the World’ Goes to…

7 min readNov 24, 2022

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How would you answer this question: “Who is the most dangerous person in the world?”

Is it Korean leader Kim Jong Um?

Russian president Vladimir Putin?

Chinese president Xi Jinping?

Donald Trump?

White American domestic terrorists wielding AR-15s?

Right-wing hate media?

Teachers?

Wait…what?

Teachers?

That’s what former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during an interview this week for Semafore.

More specifically, he was referring to American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten.

Pompeo, rumored to be considering a presidential run, said:

The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.

So not right-wing dictators like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Russia’s Putin, or North…

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