Donald Trump Spokesman Says No Decision Yet on Secretary of State

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

President-elect Donald Trump’s spokesman Jason Miller isn’t ruling out former presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a potential secretary of state.

 

The announcement comes after former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee heavily criticized Romney for his opposition to the president-elect throughout the 2016 election.

 

“No decision has been made on that position,” Miller told reporters on Wednesday morning when asked if Romney is still being considered for secretary of state. “He’s looking at a number of very highly qualified potential choices there.”

 

Earlier on Wednesday morning Huckabee, a loyal supporter of Trump after he dropped out of the primary, suggested Romney would be an insult to Trump supporters because he’d criticized Trump during the election.

 

“He attacked [Trump] on a personal level about his character, his integrity, his honor,” Huckabee stated on Fox News’s morning show, “Fox & Friends.”

 

“When you do that, there’s only one way that Mitt Romney can be considered for a post like that, and that is if he goes to a mic in a very public place and repudiates everything he said in that famous Salt Lake City speech and everything he said after that — Donald Trump wasn’t fit, that he lacked character. I mean, on and on,” Huckabee declared, referencing a speech Romney gave in March where he called Trump a “phony,” and a “fraud.”

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No Romney after all?

[Draggingtree]

Mitt Romney, Secretary of State?

Stranger things have happened.

Matthew Hennessey

November 18, 2016

Politics and law

November 18, 2016

Politics and law

 

Throughout the 2016 Republican nominating process and the just-concluded general-election campaign, Mitt Romney stood out as one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics. The former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate was a charter member of the Never Trump brigade. Romney questioned Trump’s integrity, his competence, and his temperament in unambiguous terms. Trump responded in kind. “He’s a loser,” Trump said of Romney at a May rally in Anaheim, California. “He choked like a dog . . . and he walks like a penguin onto the stage. Did you ever see? Like a penguin!”

 

Now comes news that Romney will meet with the president-elect this weekend to discuss the possibility of becoming Trump’s secretary of state. If true, it’s surely one of the most unexpected political reversals in modern history. It might also work, both for Trump and the country.

 

Appointing Romney as his chief diplomat would make Trump look strategic, high-minded, and gracious in victory. http://www.city-journal.org/html/mitt-romney-secretary-state-14864.html