Mike Pompeo’s next move

OAfter two years of leaving, he made a complete lifestyle change and lost almost 100 pounds in a year. Trump administrationOne month after his release, he was still alive. Never Give Up on an Inch His New York Times Bestseller, ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo He is contemplating whether or not he will run to be the Republican Nomination for president

“We’re a couple months out from solving the equation,” Pompeo stated this in an interview with The Washington Examiner Concerning his discussions with Susan, his wife, regarding the near future. “We’re praying, trying to figure out if this is the place where we could have the most impact, and trying to get organized, get our thinking organized, so that when we make that decision, we can either present the case to the American people in a way that is who we are and how we would try to work for them.

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“Oder we’ll decide to not run, and we will find another way for us to be productive.”

Pompeo would be the second former Trump official to enter the race, along with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Trump has also declared his candidacy, as has biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Pompeo said there is plenty of time for him or anyone else to join in, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and that he isn’t moved by the media rush.

“The national media’s always out in front because it’s good headlines, good chyrons, good clicks, but there is plenty of time, and this is — of all the things in one’s life, this is one of the things you want to measure twice and cut once. You want to make sure you get the decision right,” he said.

Pompeo’s path to his decision began by making the decision to get healthy. In June 2021, six months after leaving a job that required a lot of travel and eating late at night at his desk, he stepped on the scale and hit a number he’d never seen before: 300.

The next day he woke up and told Susan that “today is the day,” and he’s never looked back.

Pompeo said his new trim look gets him as many comments as anything he’s done in his long life of service that began at West Point. “People bring it up all the time. I cannot tell you how many folks who have said, ‘I saw what you did. My wife told me I have to do it, too.’ Or, ‘My sister saw that you did it, and she encouraged me to be better.’ Or ‘I saw it, and I decided I was going to do it, too,'” he said.

Those around him make sure he stays on track. “If we’re out someplace eating or something and I reach for the bread basket, you can see people going, ‘careful!’ Which is lovely because they’re looking out for me. They know that it was something that I really wanted to do and needed to do, and they’re trying to help,” he said.

Born in California, the former businessman adopted his mother’s home state of Kansas over 20 years ago. An Army veteran who graduated first in his class at West Point, Pompeo ran for Congress at the beginning of the Tea Party movement and had served three terms when he was plucked by Trump to serve as the director of the CIA.

His book Never Give an Inch details his suffer-no-fools approach as Trump’s top diplomat and is delivered in bursts of sharp-edged humor.

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Pompeo said that when he wrote the book, he decided he was going to tell it as he saw it, warts and all: “It wasn’t about creating a legacy. It wasn’t about claiming victory. It was just about, hey, this was kind of this world I occupied for four years and these two massive opportunities and burdens, and this was the prism that we brought to solve each of these problems that, in most cases, have been around for decades and how can you either fix them or manage them in a way that delivers for the people you are responsible for.”

The book is not strictly a policy book or a book about foreign policy theory and strategy but “a description of the pragmatist’s, practitioner’s view of being in these two roles, interactin