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Tucker Carlson Blocked Mike Pompeo From Joining Trump Admin, Reporter Claims

Charlie Kirk Staff

12/22/2024

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Tucker Carlson Blocked Mike Pompeo From Joining Trump Admin, Reporter Claims

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was blocked from joining the administration of President-elect Donald Trump by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

That is the word from Vivian Salama of The Wall Street Journal when she spoke to “Washington Week” host Jeffrey Goldberg.

“Vivian, I want to turn to you because there’s another friend of Donald Trump, who has been active, according to your own reporting, Tucker Carlson, another private adviser. You had a pretty big scoop about his ability to quash nominations. Could you give us a little bit of what you discovered this week?” Goldberg began.

“So, Tucker Carlson, who, for folks at home who have forgotten, the former Fox News host and right wing commentator, is a regular at Mar-a-Lago, speaks to the president-elect pretty regularly and is part of that sphere of influence that we’re talking about here with Elon Musk and others, where he has managed to be very influential with the president-elect,” Salama replied.

“And in this case what I was talking about is the case of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former CIA director as well, who was a shoe-in up until almost Election Day to be secretary of defense, according to a number of people who are close to Trump,” she continued.

“But Tucker Carlson, who has long hated him, believes he is, quote, evil, says he’s a warmonger, a neo-con, even just a traditional Republican has made the case to Trump that bringing him back into the fray would be a terrible mistake. He also has convinced that Mike Pompeo tried to assassinate Julian Assange, among other accusations,” she said before the host interrupted to say “Unfounded accusations, to be clear.”

“Unfounded accusations,” the reporter clarified.

“And so, you know, Don Jr., Trump’s eldest son, also kind of pushed the idea that some of these neo-cons who turned against Trump in the previous administration, you know, a lot of the national security folks who came out later and said he was unfit to be president, they linked Pompeo to that and Trump listened. Mike Pompeo’s out,” Salama concluded.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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