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.
I dont currently have any problem with Pompeo. He didnt run against Trump. He was pretty solid in the immediate aftermath of the election. Id have to go back and see his post Jan 6th remarks (immediately after) and when Trump looked his weakest.(to outsiders)
Hell to the Naw Naw Naw
https://youtu.be/8QxIIz1yEsA?si=u_nz6j-OTJ_jeZlD
This needs a Mike Pompeo rewrite.
“Your call is important to us. Please leave a message and we’ll get back to you.”
I tend to agree. Pompeo knows his stuff, and was right about the spending, too.
He was in CIA. Maybe the Deep State wanted him to keep an eye on Trump.
Thank you for your interest in the position. We will be glad to consider you for any openings in the future.
His biographical profile reads like a Deep State operative right out of central casting.
He might want to put him in a useless deadend position…just to keep him out of the way.
Great response and truth! High five!👍🏻😛
Mike is out. He won’t even get MSM invites anymore. Never Trumper behind the scenes.
Stealth?
If given the chance trump needs to lock the door
If you're six, maybe.
“Trump isn’t that dumb. Is he?”
Considering his successes, he isn’t dumb. But he is naive, and trusting to a fault. He probably thought that his experience in managing the NY mobsters with real estate would have been helpful. He had no idea that the mobs are pikers compared to politicians.
I wonder, in his next term, if things will be better since Ivanka and Jared have vowed to stay out of things. Sadly, I think they polluted the administration with some bad ideas, and PDJT can’t say “No” to Ivanka.
“Donald Trump’s secretary of state (Pompeo) and treasury secretary (Mnuchin) discussed removing him from power after the deadly Capitol attack by invoking the 25th amendment”
“Asked by host Shannon Bream whether he would do a better job getting the U.S.’ fiscal house in order than Trump did, Pompeo replied that a “President Pompeo or any conservative president” would do better on the issue than either Trump, President Obama or President Bush.”
“Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the nation doesn’t need leaders who embrace “victimhood,” hours after Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement.
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“’We need more seriousness, less noise, and leaders who are looking forward, not staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood,” Pompeo tweeted.
Name one better.
Not just no Mike, Hell NO!
Trouble is he is CIA. This agency is rogue and doesn’t give two craps about the country or protecting it or its people, only themselves.
George Marshall, John Dulles, George Schultz...
Marshall and Dulles were before I was born.
Schultz — I say no.
Pompeo has been best SoS since Dulles.
You say second best to Schultz.
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