Posted on 11/15/2022 9:51:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Donald Trump’s highly touted and anticipated announcement Tuesday evening that he will run for president again in 2024 won’t have any bearing on his own thinking about a potential bid.
Pompeo, who was also CIA director during the Trump administration, said he has yet to make a decision, “but what happens today or tomorrow, what some other person decides, won’t have any impact on that.”
Pompeo said he thinks Trump, 76, will have to “explain why he thinks he should be that next president” to the American people, saying he hopes the 45th president will talk about “things that can work for them going forward.”
While he said he was “proud of the policies we laid out” in the administration, Pompeo, 58, also took a shot at his former boss during the interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Tuesday.
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“I’ll write in AOC on my ballot before I ever vote for this Beltway hack.”
I expected more rational thinking from you.
Yeah, I like Mike Pompeo - but I’m not voting for GOPee establishment in the future.
And the other 12 pretenders who will eventually jump in.
Hahah, how many 1% candidates did they have to throw in to keep Trump under 50?
AOC would do better than most of the GOPe hacks. Although, the fact that she’s so quiet on Ukraine makes me belive she may have gone deep state herself.
If Pompeo wants to run, it’s his prerogative to do so.
With any luck. Too many Repukes think their leaders. Get in the ring, get 1% and shut up. As long as they snipe from the sides the media will continue to pretend they speak for more than a handful of people.
Pompeo is running. Has been building support in early primary states, although he may be targeting 2028 because that’s how it is traditionally done.
You’re right.
I’ll defend AOC (pre this year). She’s a citizen who saw the B.S in DC and took out a puke life long politician. She would have her own non poll tested ideas and she would say them. She didn’t run every thought past pollsters and consultants. I’ll make a not too often made point. AOC is MAGA. I don’t have to agree with everything or anything she says. She is an American who held a job who ran for office with her own ideas. She seems to be co opted now but to me one of the core ideas is the ability and/or willingness to have your own voice, platform and ideas.
Pompeo, DeSantis, Trump.
Three excellent candidates. I want them to focus on ideas, on building party consensus, on holding the Dems to account, on sweeping Republicans into power in 2024, on figuring out how to help the country in the interim. There is much work to do. I will have little patience for any of the three who gets bogged down attacking the other two; and I will have less patience for the candidate who whines about a modest slight or two from the others.
Just suck it up and advance the ball.
ZERO chance. Pompeo is a useless, ineffective tool.
1% shouldn’t even allow them on the stage.
” ... one of the core ideas is the ability and/or willingness to have your own voice, platform and ideas.”
Except that many of her ideas are nonsensical. Somehow, she managed to “study” economics at Boston University without learning much economics.
Now?
Pompeo talked about it a long time ago.
He lost a lot of weight over the past two years also.
BIG DAY for Trump-Endorsed Candidates that Fake News Media Will Not Report – 9 Losses and 174 Wins.... So Far!
QUOTE: According to the fake news, former President Donald Trump did not see the victory he had thought his endorsement would create on election night. But that is not accurate. Trump already has tallied more clear wins than defeats.
Trump-backed candidates have won huge despite the fact that this is one of the most completely rigged elections in American history.
This past Tuesday, President Trump posted on his Truth Social account the results of the midterm elections, boasting that his favored candidates had won 174 seats and lost 9.
“174 wins and 9 losses, A GREAT EVENING, and the Fake News Media, together with their partner in crime, the Democrats, are doing everything possible to play it down. Amazing job by some really fantastic candidates!” Trump wrote.
Like I said. I don’t have to agree with her ideas to recognize that they are her own. That principle is more important here. She’s not a lifer (maybe she is now but her original intent was a good one in my opinion)
I’ll bet most Freepers don’t even remember that he was the director of the CIA while the whole Russian hoax got started in early 2017.
And that makes him a really bad dude, I guess.
No thanks - not buying!
Not gona happen!!!
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