Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday laid into Donald Trump for his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his former administration’s lack of fiscal discipline, in remarks to a half-full ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
Mr Pompeo, who served as Mr Trump’s top diplomat after a stint director of the Central Intelligence Agency, went so far as to acknowledge that the Republican Party has failed to achieve victories in multiple election cycles in the years since Mr Trump won the presidency over Hillary Clinton, telling attendees that the GOP had “lost three elections in a row”.
