As best Kelly could tell,” Pompeo writes, “they were presenting a possible ‘Haley for vice-president’ option. I can’t confirm this, but [Kelly] was certain he had been played, and he was not happy about it. Clearly, this visit did not reflect a team effort but undermined our work for America.” Troianovski, Anton (May 14, 2019). "Pompeo came to Putin seeking to reset U.S. ties. The secretary of state and the Russian president could only agree that many issues stand in the way". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020 . Retrieved May 21, 2020. Take a wild guess as to who’s providing ‘Trump Water’ to residents of East Palestine, Ohio. And take a wild guess as to who’s told everyone about it. Well, you probably don’t need 45 guesses. The answer to both of these questions was the 45th U.S. President and current Mar-a-Lago resident Donald Trump,” reports Bruce Y. Lee. But while Pompeo deploys the word “authoritarian” more than a dozen times, he never does so in reference to Trump. Trump, remember, has lauded Vladimir Putin as “smart”; praised the Russian president’s war strategy as “wonderful” and “genius”; derided Nato as “dumb”; and unloaded on Joe Biden as “weak”.

Pompeo says that during his time as both Trump’s CIA director and secretary of state, he was confounded at every turn by “ the establishment.” It’s an odd claim for someone who was first in his class at the US Military Academy at West Point, then an editor of the Harvard Law Review and later a US congressman from Kansas. But it’s, of course, the same conceit that Trump often uses, claiming he isn’t part of the establishment when, in fact, Trump wasn’t just born with a silver spoon in his mouth but a silver dinnerware set. On January 12, 2021, Pompeo cancelled a planned European trip when European diplomats declined to meet with him. [158] Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (born Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo. [6] [7] His paternal great-grandparents, Carlo Pompeo and Adelina Tollis were born in Pacentro, Abruzzo, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1899 and 1900, respectively. [8] In 1982, Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, California, where he played forward on the basketball team. [9] In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management. [6] [10] [11] He was a classmate of Brian Bulatao and Ulrich Brechbuhl, who later helped him found Thayer Aerospace. [12] Turning to Haley, Pompeo dings her time as UN ambassador – “a job that is far less important than people think” – and her performance in that post.Haley resigned – or, in Pompeo’s words, “flat-out threw in the towel” – in October 2018. By quitting, Pompeo writes, Haley “abandoned” Trump as she had “the great people of South Carolina”, by resigning as governor. Lefler, Dion; Sylvester, Ron (August 4, 2010). "Pompeo, Goyle to Meet in 4th District race". The Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Johnson, Alex (March 22, 2019). "Pompeo suggests God sent Trump to save Israel "As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible," the secretary of state said when asked whether the president had an explicitly divine mission". NBC News. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.

Members". Congressional Constitution Caucus. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018 . Retrieved May 8, 2018. Pompeo was Trump’s CIA director before his appointment as secretary of state in 2018. He played an instrumental role in an administration that recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the US embassy to that city from Tel Aviv. The move was widely criticised, including by Washington’s allies, as pre-empting a final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.Following the speech, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Oversight Subcommittee announced an investigation into whether the speech constituted a violation of the Hatch Act, which restricts executive branch civil service employees from participating in certain forms of political activity. [143] A spokesperson for Pompeo said that the department was not bearing any of the costs of the speech and that Pompeo spoke in his "personal capacity. [142] After the speech, Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee announced that the committee would draft resolution holding Pompeo in contempt, saying "he has demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the constitution provides to prevent government corruption." [144] The Oversight Subcommittee Chairman, Joaquin Castro, said the "likely unprecedented" speech "may also be illegal." [143]

In August 2017, Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center, the department which helped to launch an investigation into the many suspicious [53] [54] links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies. [55] Former CIA officials, including John Sipher, expressed concern given Pompeo's proximity to the White House and Donald Trump. [56] As one might expect, he believed the Indians were preparing their nuclear weapons for deployment. It took us a few hours – and remarkably good work by our teams on the ground in New Delhi and Islamabad – to convince each side that the other was not preparing for nuclear war,” he added. We’re f–king America,” Pompeo exploded at the faint-hearted Dems. “I wouldn’t explain it to the New York Times because they simply could not understand that we are the good guys. In 1974, India became the first country in the region to acquire nuclear weapons, encouraging Islamabad to follow suit. In the 1980s, when it was an ally of the US in the first Afghan war against the collapsing Soviet Union, Pakistan quietly developed its own nuclear capacity.

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Lowry, Bryan (August 8, 2014). "Rep. Mike Pompeo appointed to Benghazi investigation committee". The Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016 . Retrieved July 24, 2016. For Pompeo, the establishment includes the Foreign Service Officer Corps that he oversaw as secretary of state. He improbably describes it as “ overwhelmingly hard left,” as if members of Antifa populated the staid halls of the State Department. In 1996, Pompeo moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he and three West Point friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft-parts manufacturers there (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die), renaming the entity Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer. [21] [22] [23] [24] Venture funding for the private organization included a nearly 20% investment from Koch Industries [21] as well as Dallas-based Cardinal Investment, and Bain & Company (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time). [25] [22] Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded, but Pompeo and Bulatao continued.

Pompeo is not a candidate for federal office, so he is allowed to personally profit when his PAC buys his book with donors’ funds, according to Brett Kappel, an attorney specializing in campaign finance at Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg. After graduating from law school, he worked as a lawyer for Williams & Connolly in Washington. [20]

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In 2019, after four-term U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2020 election, [230] Pompeo considered leaving the Trump administration to run for the seat. [231] He ultimately declined to enter the race. [232] The amendment, added to the constitution after the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963, provides for the removal of an incapacitated president, potentially on grounds of mental as well as physical fitness. It has never been used. How well is all this working? Pompeo may well sell books but fail to move the needle. Polls show him at 1% in the notional presidential primary, tied with the likes of Paul Ryan, the former House speaker, and Ted Cruz, the Senate’s own squeegee pest. Pompeo trails Haley and Pence. This delicate balancing act is an essential but risky proposition for Pompeo, 59, and other Republicans preparing to take on Trump, 76, for the party’s nomination. Openly criticising the former president carries the risk of provoking the ire of Trump and his base, and being counted out as a potential running mate. Running in Trump’s shadow brings its own set of challenges. Despite the veiled warnings from his former boss, Pompeo has made clear that Trump’s candidacy will not sway his decision. A White House bid could come in the “next handful of months”, he said in recent interviews. Karl also reports that Pompeo asked for a legal analysis of the process for invoking the 25th amendment.