A debate over Mike Pompeo’s role inside the incoming Trump administration is quickly becoming a defining contest between those in Donald Trump’s orbit who want to make good on his promise to bring peace versus those who see his presidency as an opportunity to further ignite conflict, according to sources involved in the battle.
Pompeo served as Trump’s CIA director and then his secretary of state, but it is his more recent board service with a Ukrainian oligarch’s telecom firm, coupled with his hawkish approach to global conflict, that has his comeback effort running into significant obstacles.
Since 2019, Trump has been attacking Joe Biden and “the Biden crime family” largely over Hunter Biden’s role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. To turn around and offer a top cabinet position—Pompeo has been floated for secretary of defense—would be a humiliating reversal. ….more