WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY’-oh) has deniedwriting an anonymous New York Times opinion piece that said an internal“resistance” was working to thwart some of President Donald Trump’s efforts.

Pompeo spoke to reporters after a Thursday meeting in New Delhi with topIndian officials and said, “It’s not mine.”

He says “It shouldn’t surprise anyone” that the New York Times chose toprint “such a piece.” He says if the piece actually was written by a topU.S. official “they should not well have chosen to take a disgruntled,deceptive, bad actor’s word for anything.”

Pompeo accuses the media of trying to undermine the Trump administrationand says he finds it “incredibly disturbing.”