President-elect
Donald Trump announced Saturday he will not be inviting his former
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley to join
his cabinet.
Haley ran against Trump for president in 2024 and
did not campaign with him . Pompeo, who also served as Trump’s CIA
director, flirted with a presidential bid of his own in 2024.
After
Trump's win, Pompeo was making a concerted effort to be named to the
position of defense secretary. Pompeo’s bid to become the nation’s
defense chief ran into heated opposition from close allies of the former
president, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., and far-right
commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“There is a
desire to not have people with presidential ambitions” use Trump cabinet
posts as a launch pad, said a former senior Trump administration
official. “He got burned by Mike previously, and by Haley, and his
foreign policy views are not aligned with the president.”
Pompeo,
who unleashed a barrage of measures against China in his final weeks in
office, and declared that China had committed genocide against its
Uighur Muslims , had been sanctioned by Beijing .
Pompeo
"planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves, gravely
interfered in China's internal affairs, undermined China's interests,
offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-U.S.
relations," Beijing had said.
Anonymous
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American Muslims are screwed.
U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply upset by his pro-Israel Cabinet picks—Reuters.
Trump is not going to end the two wars. He is going for broke.
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