Trump reveals two former senior members of his administration won’t be returning for his second time period | EUROtoday

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President-elect Donald Trump introduced that two members of his first Cabinet wouldn’t be given a job this time round.

Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador, and Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, won’t be supplied positions in Trump’s administration as his transition to the White House is underway, he declared in a Saturday night Truth Social put up.

“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” the previous president wrote. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Haley launched her personal presidential bid for the 2024 cycle. She was the final GOP contender difficult Trump when she dropped out of the race in March. Despite some animosity between the pair on the marketing campaign path — together with when Trump labeled her “bird brain” — the previous South Carolina governor ultimately endorsed Trump for president on the Republican National Convention.

In distinction to Haley, Pompeo has largely remained out of the highlight since leaving his tenure within the first Trump administration.

He backed Trump at a speech on the Republican National Convention. He instructed the gang that the Trump administration “put America first every single day.”

Trump didn’t provide any extra perception into his decision-making, however the former president’s put up got here someday after his former adviser Roger Stone urged Trump towards tapping Pompeo once more, writing that the previous president “can’t trust” his former secretary of state.

“Now that Trump is back on top, it becomes far more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff,” Stone wrote on his web site on Friday.

“Several neocons have positioned themselves to get highly influential roles within the second Trump administration, and this sinister fifth column has the potential to be more harmful to Trump’s America First agenda than his leftist opinion within the Democrat Party,” he continued. Only Haley and Pompeo made his checklist.

Regarding Haley, he known as her a “political chameleon who has changed with the times in ways that are incredibly self-serving.”

Regarding Pompeo, Stone took difficulty with him for criticizing Trump’s refusal at hand over categorized paperwork — a transfer that resulted in a federal legal case towards the previous president — and claimed Pompeo “was creating distance and flirting with a potential presidential run of his own.”

It’s unclear if Trump had mentioned his determination with Stone earlier than making the Truth Social announcement. The Independent has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign for remark.

As of Saturday night, the previous president had introduced only one Cabinet member. He tapped Susie Wiles, his marketing campaign supervisor, to function chief of employees, making her the primary lady with the title.