Former CIA director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo isn’t ruling out a return to government service if presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump wins the election this year.
Now that Nikki Haley has been chased out of the race after a Super Tuesday thumping, the likelihood of a second Trump presidency has grown, and if he returns to the swamp, the former president is going to need competent and loyal people to assume positions in his administration.
Pompeo would seem to be a good choice as one of the few ex-Trump officials who haven’t stabbed their former boss in the back and he was put on the spot over a possible job in a new administration during an appearance on Friday’s edition of “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on Fox News.
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“There’s more focus this time than even there was back in 2016 when Donald Trump first ran and won for the presidency on who he picks to be with him,” Cavuto said. “Your name does come up. Are you interested in that?”
“It’s flattering that my name comes up, that I had a chance to serve for four years and didn’t completely blow it,” Pompeo responded. “So people still think hey it might be possible he’d get, he’d get another swing. You know I don’t often comment on jobs I’ve not been offered.”
“But Neil, you’ve known me long enough to know that if I get a chance to serve and think that I can make a difference, I’m almost, I’m almost certainly gonna say yes to that opportunity to try and deliver on behalf of the American people,” he said.
“Do you think it would be different in a second Trump administration?” Cavuto asked. “That is, you know, returning to the Oval Office, recruiting people. He had at sometimes some difficulty with early picks for secretary of state, defense etcetera you know that better than I and that he might be scaring off people who would be otherwise be honored to be part of a White House senior staff and Cabinet.”
“You know Neil there were, there were folks who didn’t want to serve in the last Trump administration too or folks who came in and then punched their ticket and went on and left pretty quickly,” Pompeo responded. “I’m confident that when President Trump is ultimately successful and is back in the White House in January that he will be able to field an incredibly capable group of people who are patriots working to deliver on the things he promised the American people he would deliver on…I’m confident he will find a good group of men and women who will want to serve in that way.”
“You know he demands, we’re told, intense loyalty, that the one reason why he thinks he had some of the mistakes that he had in some hires was that they were not loyal. What do you make of that?” Cavuto asked.
“Oh goodness,” Pompeo answered. “You know, I think every administration wants to have people that are delivering against what they said they would do. So call it what you might. Call it loyalty, call it mission-focused, that’s how I thought about it. I was laser-focused every day on whether our CIA or State Department trying to say ‘what is it the president told the American people we’d do, what’s the ask and how do we execute that.”
“How do you actually implement that as a practicioner not a, not someone who’s out giving speeches or pontificating in a classroom? We had to actually get it done,” he added. “I’m confident President Trump will be looking for people who will faithfully execute what it is he asked them to do. I think as a president you should always want that from everyone.”
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