Tammy Bruce skirts query on Hindus in Bangladesh

US State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce sidestepped a direct question Tuesday about the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, cloaking her silence in diplomatic caution. 

Grilled on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s stance—and any action—60 days into his tenure, she dodged specifics despite President Donald Trump’s pre-election spotlight on the issue.  

It began with a throwback to Trump’s campaign fire. Days before November’s vote, he’d raged on X about “barbaric violence” against Hindus, Christians, and others in Bangladesh, slamming a nation “in total chaos.” 

Now, with Rubio two months in, a reporter probed: What’s his read, and what’s the plan? Bruce’s reply was slick: “Secretary Rubio follows [Trump’s] vision and the choices tied to it,” she said—a nod to alignment that landed like a feather, weightless on detail.  

Pressed harder, Bruce dug in. “Negotiations, diplomatic talks, outcomes—I won’t guess at those,” she parried. 

A rephrased push hit the same block: “What I’m not going to answer is diplomatic considerations from government to government or attitudes and approaches when it comes to what’s happening in a certain country that belong within a diplomatic kind of conversation that clearly I can’t speak on in – or would I hypothesise about what might happen.”