Posted on 03/13/2024 5:54:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a new interview that he’s not ruling out accepting a White House position if former President Donald Trump is reelected in November.
“If I get a chance to serve and think that I can make a difference ... I’m almost certainly going to say yes to that opportunity to try and deliver on behalf of the American people,” he told Fox News, when asked during a interview if he would work for President Trump again.
“I’m confident President Trump will be looking for people who will faithfully execute what it is he asked them to do,” Mr. Pompeo said during the interview, which aired on March 8. “I think as a president, you should always want that from everyone.”
He said that as a former secretary of state, “I certainly wanted my team to do what I was asking them to do and was enormously frustrated when I found that I couldn’t get them to do that.”
Mr. Pompeo, a former U.S. representative from Kansas, served as Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018 before he was secretary of state from 2018 to 2021. After he left office, there was speculation that he could mount a Republican presidential bid in 2024, but announced that he wouldn’t be running.
President Trump hasn’t publicly commented about Mr. Pompeo’s remarks.
In 2023, amid speculation that he would make a run for the White House, Mr. Pompeo took a swipe at his former boss, telling Fox News at the time that “the Trump administration spent $6 trillion more than it took in, adding to the deficit.”
“That’s never the right direction for the country,” he said.
In a public appearance last year, Mr. Pompeo also appeared to take a shot at the 45th president by criticizing “celebrity leaders” when urging GOP voters to choose ahead of the 2024 election.
Mr. Pompeo’s interview comes as the former president was named the “presumptive nominee” by the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week after his last major Republican challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, dropped out of the 2024 race after failing to secure enough delegates. President Trump won 14 out of 15 states on Super Tuesday, with only Vermont—which notably has an open primary—going for Ms. Haley, who served as President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
On March 8, the RNC held a meeting in Houston during which committee members voted in favor of President Trump’s nomination.
“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump on his huge primary victory!” the organization said in a statement last week. “I’d also like to congratulate Nikki Haley for running a hard-fought campaign and becoming the first woman to win a Republican presidential contest.”
Earlier this year, the former president criticized the idea of being named the presumptive nominee after reports suggested that the RNC would do so before the Super Tuesday contests and while Ms. Haley was still in the race.
Also on March 8, the RNC voted to name Trump-endorsed officials to head the organization. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote in Houston, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.
“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th President of the United States,” Mr. Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected, replacing former chair Ronna McDaniel. Ms. Trump is expected to focus largely on fundraising and media appearances.
President Trump hasn’t signaled whom he would appoint to various federal agencies if he’s reelected in November. He also hasn’t said who his pick for a running mate would be, but has offered several suggestions in recent interviews.
In various interviews, the former president has mentioned Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, among others.
Surely President Trump has learned his lesson about stealth Never-Trumpers.
Wasn’t long ago we all read this headline
“Mike Pompeo Reverses Anti-MAGA Course, Now Wants Role in Second Trump Administration”
He won’t be.
L
Trump isn’t that dumb. Is he?
SSnake in the grass
Pompeo however may be qualified to oversee the state department move from DC to its new tents in the Aleutian Islands… one way tickets…
Pompeo is a CIA insider, no? That said, he should blow the lid off 2020 election interference, and he has not.
This leaves a stink about the man.
Pompeo didn’t run against Trump.
He was the bes SOS in my life time.
The Tillerson mistake was quickly corrected.
I have a contrarian view that we're watching the actual plan unfold, and that it had to happen this way. But whether anyone agrees or not, it would be the ultimate thumb in the Deep State's eye if Trump swept the field with the same team that first shaped the battle. Consider four axioms before scoffing:
1. All war is deception.
2. In order for any deception plan to succeed, it must fool most of its own players.
3. Great actors make great movies.
4. Time will tell.
And time is growing short...
Pompeo is one of the few people who still mention the declassified Crossfire Hurricane binder and the mysterious circumstances of its disappearance at DOJ. If he were working against Trump, I doubt he would bring that binder up in public. Perhaps copies of that binder left DC with Trump and that is what the FBI was looking for at MaraLago.
Was this a "mistake?"
Mike Pompeo slams Trump on Fox News saying his handling of secrets put US troops in danger
Wouldn’t it be ‘ironic’ if Trump did have the special ‘folder’ and only had it because in their rush to insert some classified or secret documents in the documents they dumped on the curb for Trump to take, that they unwittingly threw that folder into the pile?
That may explain the FBI raid. I wonder what odds Vegas would give on that being the case ?
Speaking of odds; Trump is a slight favorite in Vegas. The fix 2.0 is well underway.
Yes.
BTTT
Has he retracted his “mistake?”
I think so.
FOAD Pompeo.
Trump is not petty.
He lives in the real world.
I’m sure this bothers you more than Trump.
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