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While news watchers and reporters are waiting for the sparks to fly between Donald Trump and other potential GOP presidential candidates, Mike Pompeo  slammed the ex-president, on Sunday on Fox News.

Pompeo, who served as secretary of state under former President Donald Trump, said that his ex-boss isn’t a true conservative.

Pompeo, who is weighing a bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination against Trump, was asked by Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday”: “Would a President Pompeo do a better job managing the deficit and debt than a President Trump did?”

Replied Pompeo: “I think a President Pompeo or any conservative president will do better than not only we did during the four years in the Trump administration, Barack Obama, George Bush. The list is long, Shannon, of folks who come to Washington on one theory and aren’t prepared to stand up and explain to the American people how we’re actually going to get that right. … It’s going to take a true conservative leader, Shannon.”

Bream pressed: “Are you saying that former President Trump wasn’t a true conservative leader?”

Pompeo, who took swipes at Trump’s reliance on celebrity and “identity politics” without naming him at last week’s Conservative Political Action Committee conference, didn’t flinch in response.

“$6 trillion more in debt,” Pompeo answered. “That’s never the right direction for the country, Shannon.”

Good! We need to hear more from these potential candidates!

Tony

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