Title: Romney and Trump to discuss secretary of state position (flip-flopper summit) Source:
Zero Hedge URL Source:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016- ... -potential-role-administration Published:Nov 17, 2016 Author:Tyler Durden Post Date:2016-11-17 19:12:49 by hondo68 Keywords:Willard Mitt Romney, Secretary of Flip Flops Views:226 Comments:9
Romney Meets Trump This Weekend, Will Discuss SecState Role In New Administration
Update: According to NBC, Romney is reportedly being considered for Secretary of State.
Mitt Romney will meet with President-elect Donald Trump this weekend to discuss the position of Secretary of State, a source tells NBC News. It's unclear if Romney, who was one of Trump's more vocal critics within the GOP, will meet with Trump at Trump Tower or at another location on Sunday.
Trump has stayed mostly within the confines of his 5th Avenue skyscraper since his visit to Washington last Thursday to meet with President Obama and congressional leaders; however, he's still meeting with potential cabinet members and plans to meet with Japanes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday.
Earlier this year during the presidential campaign, the former Massachusetts governor criticized Trump's candidacy, calling him a "phony" and "fraud."
BREAKING: Source familiar w/ Trump's thinking confirms Sunday's meeting w/ Gov. Mitt Romney is to discuss position of Secretary of State.
The latest troubling, if unconfirmed reversal on Trump's promise to "drain the swamp" comes by way of CNN - so take it with a big grain of salt - which reports that Donald Trump will meet this weekend with one of his fiercest critics, 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney - the man who refused to endorse Trump's "bigotry" and "racist approach."
The two men are set to meet this weekend to discuss "governing moving forward" and potentially a role for Romney in Trump's Cabinet, the source said. The source declined to specify for which Cabinet positions Romney is under consideration.
As CNN notes, "the meeting is the latest in a series of Trump's conversations and encounters with Republicans who did not support his candidacy in an effort to reunite the GOP following a divisive election that fractured party leaders past the Republican primary and into the general election."
While we have no idea if CNN is merely trying to stir tensions with a fake "trial balloon", where we agree with CNN is that "a Romney appointment would be a startling shift in the two men's relationship."
As a reminder, Trump, who endorsed Romney in 2012, repeatedly slammed the former GOP standard bearer during his ultimately bid for the a Republican nomination for his defeat to President Barack Obama, describing him in characteristically colorful terms as a failure. Romney returned fire, repeatedly and forcefully arguing that Trump was not qualified to serve as commander-in-chief. In a dramatic speech last March, before Trump clinched the Republican nomination, Romney slammed Trump as a "con man," a "phony" and "a fraud." Romney also refused to endorse Trump in the general election, and instead argued In favor of allowing the Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson onto the debate stage.
In a June interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Romney warned that Trump's presidency could usher in "trickle-down racism."
The first sign of a detente between the establishment politician and the New York billionaire emerged when Romney congratulated Trump on his victory, a call Trump tweeted was "very nice!"
It now appears that the two may be good friends once again.
CNN adds that Trump's transition spokesmen also announced Thursday he will name members of the so-called "landing team" of transition officials to work with US officials at the departments of State, Defense Justice and the the National Security Council. Trump is also scheduled to meet with his transition team for two hours on Friday to discuss their progress and go over potential appointments, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said Thursday.
Earlier this morning, Trump tweeted that "my transition team, which is working long hours and doing a fantastic job, will be seeing many great candidates today. #MAGA."
My transition team, which is working long hours and doing a fantastic job, will be seeing many great candidates today. #MAGA
Miller declined Thursday to provide a timetable for cabinet appointments, stressing that the focus is on "getting it right," rather than an "arbitrary timetable," echoing the comments of senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. "In the words of Vice President Biden just yesterday after meeting with Mr. Pence, nobody should expect the government to be formed overnight," Conway said Thursday morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Nobody is in a rush to do the wrong thing."
It was not immediately clear if the Trump transition team considers bringing Romney on board as a wrong thing.
Willard does NOT belong in the Trump administration.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
From articles I have read about Trump's possible appointees, it appears Trump is just another Obama. Promise change and then just carry on the policies of the prior administration.
The good thing is, Trump will only be a one term president because the economy is going to be really bad within the next four years so the Republicans will be blamed. The bad thing is the Democrats and socialism will govern for the next 20 years.
They did not get to him. I knew going in that we could never get what we want until this present system collapses on the Day the Dollar Dies. I was always interested more in the anger of the Sanders and Trump voters than I was in the candidates.
When the Dollar Dies, we will have martial law within 24 hours of the first Nationwide Food Rot. The only sane way out is for the US military to arrest the Bankers and seize their assets to fund Debt Cancellation. Trump won't do that but nothing less than that will prevent 10 million Americans from starving to death.
The Romney nomination is not cast in stone, but Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas is in.
Pompeo is a supporter of the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk data collection program. The Liberty Through Strength Act II restores the agency’s access to the data it had already collected under the Patriot Act from its inception through late last year. There are currently no votes on this bill.
House legislation would preserve data collected under Patriot Act By RUDY TAKALA (@RUDYTAKALA) • 12/24/15 12:01 AM •Updated: 12/27/15 4:30 PM
A Kansas Republican has introduced the House version of legislation that would preserve metadata obtained under the National Security Agency's bulk collection program, which expired last month.
"The USA Freedom Act made significant and detrimental changes to the NSA's metadata program, which had played a major role in the disruption of terrorist plots across the globe," Rep. Mike Pompeo said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "The Liberty Through Strength Act II will restore critical tools to our intelligence community, allowing it to keep our country safe in a way that protects every American's constitutional rights."
Pompeo's proposal would serve as a companion to legislation introduced in the Senate by Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton.
The USA Freedom Act, signed into law this year, replaced the NSA's bulk metadata collection program effective Nov. 29. Under the new program, officials must seek a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that names a specific person, device, account or identifier, and then obtain the data from telecommunication providers.
The agency set Feb. 29, 2016 as the tentative deadline to destroy data collected under the previous program, though it does not have access to the data for intelligence purposes. Pompeo's bill would extend that deadline, and allow the agency to preserve such "legacy data" for five years from the time it was collected.
The previous data collection regime, known as the "Section 215" program for an authorizing provision in the Patriot Act, became the subject of elevated scrutiny this month after it was discussed at the Republican presidential debate Dec. 15, with candidates seeking to distinguish themselves over the program.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has co-sponsored Cotton's proposal, claimed the USA Freedom Act had eliminated "a valuable tool … quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists had been calling."
