Mike Pompeo criticizes Trump on national debt crisis, says 'any conservative president would do better'
Mike Pompeo criticizes Trump on national debt crisis, says 'any conservative president would do better'
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Mike Pompeo criticizes Trump on national debt crisis, says 'any conservative president would do better'
Ryan King March 05, 01:09 PM March 05, 01:27 PMFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharpened his critique of former President Donald Trump Sunday, contending that "any conservative" would be better at addressing the national debt crisis than Trump.
"I think a President Pompeo or any conservative president will do better than — not only we did during the four years of the Trump administration — [but] Barack Obama, George Bush," Pompeo told Online News 72h Sunday host Shannon Bream. "The system is at risk if we don't get it right. We are $31 trillion in the hole."
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iFrame ObjectPompeo also underscored that it will take a "true conservative" leader to rectify the nation's mounting fiscal woes.
"Are you saying President Trump wasn't a true conservative," Bream asked him.
"$6 trillion more in debt. That's never the right direction for the country," he replied.
Over recent months, Pompeo has subtly criticized his one-time boss. During his address before the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, Pompeo alluded to Trump's running up the national debt, blocking him from speaking out on China, and implied that Trump led the GOP to a string of electoral defeats.
"We can’t become the left, following celebrity leaders with their own brand of identity politics, those with fragile egos who refuse to acknowledge reality," Pompeo declared at the conservative confab.
Pompeo, who also briefly served as Trump's CIA director, was coy about whether he intended his remarks as a knock on Trump, stressing that "it's about the American people and getting this right."
"I was talking about the time to elect serious leaders who are thoughtful, who speak about America as the most exceptional nation in the history of civilization. They're not denigrating it, they're not throwing out whoppers — they're not spending all their time thinking about Twitter," Pompeo explained about his remarks at CPAC.
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As he weighs a possible run, Pompeo has been wading into top political debates and engaging in activity in key early primary states. He is currently lagging behind other 2024 hopefuls in sixth place, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
Pompeo was one of a handful of potential 2024 aspirants and declared candidates to address CPAC 2023 alongside Trump, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
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