Carlson blocked Pompeo’s entry into the second Trump administration

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The well-known conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson, former figurehead for the television station “Fox News”, he led a real pressure campaign against the president-elect Donald Trump and the latter’s collaborators, preventing the entry of the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the next presidential administration. This is what the “Wall Street Journal” newspaper states, according to which many in Trump’s inner circle believed that Pompeo was in the front row for nomination as defense secretary of the next administration.

Trump had sent rather clear signals in this sense in the days immediately preceding the elections last November, publicly praising Pompeo for losing weight and calling him “charming”. Carlson, who exercises a very strong influence on the president-elect’s constituency, was, however, categorically against the nomination, considering Pompeo an exponent of the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party in favor of armed interventionism by the United States.

Carlson also accuses Pompeo of an alleged plan to assassinate the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, which never materialized: Pompeo did not expressly deny Carlson’s accusation, but stated that he had “always complied” with the law, which prohibits targeted assassinations by the government.

In his campaign against Pompeo’s nomination, Carlson was also able to draw on the influential support of Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.according to which the inclusion of neoconservatives in the next presidential administration would be a dangerous choice, since the latter would aim “to control (Trump), not to serve him”. Pompeo is also criticized for distancing himself from Trump during the dramatic events following the 2020 presidential elections, when the president-elect contested the regularity of the vote won by Joe Biden.

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