Pompeo warns diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’ [Video]

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 …