Pompeo not shutting door on joining a second Trump administration
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday did not rule out accepting a position from former President Trump in a second administration, if he’s reelected in November.
Asked by Fox News’s Neil Cavuto if he would consider working under Trump again, Pompeo said it was “flattering” to hear that his name has come up. He joked that it must mean he “didn’t blow it” the first four years.
“I don’t often comment on jobs I’ve not been offered,” he told the “Your World Cavuto” host Friday, adding “But 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.”
“I’m confident President Trump will be looking for people who will faithfully execute what it is he asked them to do,” he continued after Cavuto suggested the former president would expect loyalty. “I think as a president, you should always want that from everyone.”
He added that he would want his team to do the same.
“I must say, as 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,” Pompeo said.
The former secretary was also asked about No Labels’ decision Friday to move forward with formally jumping into the 2024 race for the White House. The political group, created to build support for a third-party ticket, has yet to announce a candidate, however.
Cavuto pressed the former Trump official to weigh in on the issue.
“In the end, the political party system that we’ve had for a long time has put every president in office for decades,” Pompeo said. “I suspect this won’t be any different.”
“One of the reasons I suspect they’re having trouble getting folks to step forward is because it’s not likely to be a successful outcome — at either getting the presidency or frankly reshaping how Americans are thinking about the political process,” Pompeo added. “In the end, you can’t win with nothing Neil, you gotta have a candidate. And it sounds like they don’t have one yet.”
Instead, the former secretary said he still expects November to bring a rematch between Trump and President Biden.
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