President-elect Donald Trump said that he does not plan to invite to his administration either the former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, nor former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
"I will not invite either former Permanent Representative Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to my administration that is currently being formed,”, Trump wrote on the social network "Truth Social", quoted by BTA.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated working with them before and would like to thank them for their service to our country,” Trump wrote.
Both Haley and Pompeo served in the US administration during Donald Trump's first term as president.
Republican Trump defeated his opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, in the November 5 presidential election. In addition, the Republicans were able to take control of the US Senate. They can also get a majority in the House of Representatives.
Donald Trump risks falling again into the so-called Washington swamp during his second term, wrote the head of the Committee on Information Policy of the Federation Council Alexey Pushkov in his Telegram channel.
„The main thing about Trump is not his notorious “unpredictability”, which is exaggerated, but the fact that the “Washington Swamp”, which he promised to drain back in 2016, but never did, will tried to cover him from all sides with his devils and kikimori, who will try to tie his hands and feet“, the senator opined.
According to Pushkov, the Republican will be strongly influenced by his future team, which is unlikely to include such faithful people as Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk.
He noted that Trump's likely entourage would consist of more experienced Republican politicians such as anti-Russian hardliners Marco Rubio and Mike Pompeo, who was secretary of state in Trump's first term.
„If such people get the relevant positions, they will start processing Trump in the spirit of the “Washington Consensus”, both for Ukraine and for Russia, telling him that this should not be done, and that this is dangerous or risky. And then the allies - Rutte (General Secretary of NATO), Von der Leyen (Head of the European Commission), Duda (President of Poland) and others will try to neutralize Trump's dangerous approaches for them and turn them in their direction, he added. Pushkov.