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Mike Pompeo

April 28, 2023

Michael Richard Pompeo (/pɒmˈpeɪoʊ/; born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, former lawyer, and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021. He is the first person to have held both of those positions.

Mike Pompeo
Official portrait, 2018
70th United States Secretary of State
In office
April 26, 2018 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
DeputyJohn Sullivan
Stephen Biegun
Preceded byRex Tillerson
Succeeded byAntony Blinken
6th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
January 23, 2017 – April 26, 2018
PresidentDonald Trump
DeputyGina Haspel
Preceded byJohn Brennan
Succeeded byGina Haspel
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 4th district
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 23, 2017
Preceded byTodd Tiahrt
Succeeded byRon Estes
Personal details
Born
Michael Richard Pompeo

(1963-12-30) December 30, 1963 (age 59)
Orange, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)
Leslie Libert
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(m. 1986; div. 1997)​

Susan Justice Mostrous
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(m. 2000)​
Children1
Residence(s)Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
EducationUnited States Military Academy (BS)
Harvard University (JD)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1986–1991[1]
Rank Captain
Unit

After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1986 and his obligatory five-year service as a United States Army officer, Pompeo went on to graduate from Harvard Law School. He worked as an attorney until 1998 and then became an entrepreneur in the aerospace and oilfield industries. Pompeo was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2010, representing Kansas's 4th congressional district until 2017.

Once a critic of Donald Trump, whom he called "authoritarian", Pompeo became one of his biggest supporters after Trump became the Republican nominee in the 2016 presidential election. Trump appointed him Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in January 2017 and Secretary of State in April 2018. Pompeo was the Trump Administration’s most vocal critic of the Chinese government, including his opposition to the oppression of Uyghurs, and focused U.S.-China relations in opposition to China's policies regarding Hong Kong, Taiwan and the South China Sea. He advocated for moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

During Pompeo's tenure as Secretary of State, he prioritized grounding human rights in religious liberty[2] and brokering peace in the Middle East. He established the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom,[3] moved the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,[4] and negotiated the Abraham Accords which established diplomatic normalcy between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.[5] He was among the staunchest Trump loyalists in the Cabinet and routinely flouted State Department norms in aid of Trump's objectives, including supporting Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.[6]

Early life and education

Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (born Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo.[7][8] His paternal great-grandparents, Carlo Pompeo and Adelina Tollis were born in Pacentro, Abruzzo, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1899 and 1900, respectively.[9] In 1982, Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, California, where he played forward on the basketball team.[10] In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management.[7][11][12] He was a classmate of Brian Bulatao and Ulrich Brechbuhl, who later helped him found Thayer Aerospace.[13]

From 1986 to 1991, Pompeo served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer with the West Germany-based 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division. He served as a tank platoon leader before becoming a cavalry troop executive officer and then the squadron maintenance officer.[14] Pompeo left the U.S. Army at the rank of captain.[1][15][16][17]

In 1994, Pompeo earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.[18][19][20]

Early career

After graduating from law school, he worked as a lawyer for Williams & Connolly in Washington.[21]

In 1996, Pompeo moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he and three West Point friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft-part manufacturers there (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die), renaming the entity Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer.[22][23][24][25] Venture funding for the private organization included a nearly 20% investment from Koch Industries[22] as well as Dallas-based Cardinal Investment, and Bain & Company (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time).[26][23] Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded, but Pompeo and Bulatao continued.

In 2006, he sold his interest in the company, which by then had been renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace, to Highland Capital Management, which had clients including Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems and Raytheon Aircraft.[27] Pompeo then became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment manufacturer that was also a partner of Koch Industries.[28]

In 2017, when Pompeo became head of the CIA, he named his former business partner, Brian Bulatao, the agency's chief operating officer.[24]

U.S. House of Representatives (2011–2017)

Elections

 
U.S. congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014

Pompeo represented Kansas's 4th congressional district from 2011 until his January 2017 appointment to director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[29]

In the 2010 election, Pompeo won the Republican primary for Kansas's 4th District congressional seat with 39% of the vote,[30] defeating state senator Jean Schodorf (who received 24%) and two other candidates.[31][32] Late in the primary, Schodorf began to surge in the polls, prompting two outside groups—Common Sense Issues and Americans for Prosperity—to spend tens of thousands of dollars in the campaign's final days to attack Schodorf and support Pompeo.[33] In the general election, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Raj Goyle, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives. Pompeo received 59% of the vote (117,171 votes) to 36% for Goyle (71,866).[34] During Pompeo's campaign, its affiliated Twitter account praised as a "good read" a news article that called Goyle, his Indian-American opponent, a "turban topper" who "could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc. who knows". Pompeo later apologized to Goyle for the tweet.[35] Pompeo received $80,000 in donations during the campaign from Koch Industries and its employees.[36]

In the 2012 election, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Robert Tillman by a margin of 62–32%.[37] Koch Industries gave Pompeo's campaign $110,000.[38]

In the 2014 election, Pompeo won the general election with 67% of the vote, defeating Democrat Perry Schuckman.[39]

In the 2016 election, Pompeo beat Democrat Daniel B. Giroux in the general election with 61% of the vote.[40]

Tenure in Congress

Pompeo served on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy, the United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on the CIA, and the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi.[41]

Pompeo was a member of the Congressional Constitution Caucus.[42]

Pompeo was original sponsor of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015.[43]

CIA Director (2017–2018)

 
Official portrait of Mike Pompeo as CIA Director
 
World War II veterans being honored at Bastille Day celebrations on July 13, 2017

On November 18, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pompeo to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[44] He was confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 2017, with a vote of 66–32, and sworn in later that day.[45][46] In his confirmation he failed to disclose the links between his company in Kansas and a Chinese government owned firm.[47]

In February 2017, Pompeo traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss policy on Syria and ISIL.[48] Pompeo honored the then-crown prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Nayef with the CIA's "George Tenet" Medal.[49] It was the first reaffirmation of Saudi Arabia–United States relations since Trump took office in January 2017.[50] In March 2017, Pompeo formally invoked state secrets privilege to prevent CIA officers, including Gina Haspel and James Cotsana, from being compelled to testify in the trial of Bruce Jessen and James Elmer Mitchell.[51]

In June 2017, Pompeo named Michael D'Andrea head of the CIA's Iran mission center.[52]

In August 2017, Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center, the department which helped to launch an investigation into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials.[53] Former CIA officials, including John Sipher, expressed concern given Pompeo's proximity to the White House and Donald Trump.[54]

In September 2017, Pompeo sought authority for the CIA to make covert drone strikes without the Pentagon's involvement, including inside Afghanistan.[55]

During Easter weekend 2018, Pompeo visited North Korea and met with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the upcoming 2018 North Korea–United States summit between Kim and Trump.[56]

Pompeo usually personally delivered the president's daily brief in the Oval Office.[57] At Trump's request, Pompeo met with former NSA official William E. Binney to discuss his doubts of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[58]

At the suggestion of Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, Pompeo planned to hire chaplains at the CIA.[58]

U.S. Secretary of State (2018–2021)

Main articles: Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration and List of international trips made by Mike Pompeo as United States Secretary of State

Nomination and confirmation

President Trump announced on March 13, 2018, that he would nominate Pompeo to serve as secretary of state, succeeding Rex Tillerson, who stepped down on March 31, 2018.

On April 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11–9 in favor of sending Pompeo's nomination to the full Senate, with Senator Chris Coons voting "present" and Johnny Isakson, who was absent that day, voting "yes by proxy".[59] In the interest of saving the committee's time, Coons decided to vote "present", as the vote would have been tied if he had voted no on the nomination with Isakson absent, a situation that would have nullified his vote.[60] The Senate floor vote took place on April 26 and Pompeo was confirmed by the full Senate by a 57–42 vote, with five of ten Democratic senators running for reelection in 2018 in states that Trump won in 2016, voting to confirm Pompeo.[61][62][63]

Pompeo was sworn in on April 26, 2018.[64] In testimony before the senate, he promised to prioritize improving the low-morale issue at the State Department.[64]

Confirmation process
Voting body Vote date Vote results
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations April 12, 2018 11–9
Full Senate April 23, 2018 57–42

Tenure as Secretary of State

 
Pompeo with Kim Jong-un

During his tenure as Secretary of State, Pompeo was described as among the staunchest Trump loyalists in the Cabinet.[65] During his tenure, he routinely flouted norms followed by his predecessors.[65] These included a speech via satellite from Jerusalem supporting Trump's re-election, firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, and standing on the sidelines while Trump and his allies conducted a smear campaign against career diplomat Marie Yovanovitch.[66][65][67][68] Under Pompeo's tenure, career State Department officials quit, were forced into retirement or fired, and were replaced by inexperienced political appointees.[69] Like Trump, Pompeo praised dictators and criticized the U.S.'s traditional democratic allies.[65][69] International relations scholars Daniel Drezner, Richard Sokolsky, and Aaron David Miller described Pompeo as the worst secretary of state in American history, citing numerous foreign policy failures, fealty to Trump at the cost of U.S. national interest, and improprieties in office.[70][71]

Pompeo played a role in Trump's three summits with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un. The summits failed to achieve any reduction in North Korea's nuclear arsenal.[72][73] In a 2021 interview with a conservative podcast, Pompeo said that "I regret that we didn't make more progress" on North Korea.[72]

In August 2018, Pompeo thanked Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman "for Saudi Arabia's support for northeast Syria's urgent stabilization needs".[74] Pompeo and Crown Prince also discussed the situation in war-torn Yemen.[75]

 
Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 2018

Pompeo condemned the military crackdown by the Myanmar Army and police on Rohingya Muslims.[76] In July 2018, Pompeo raised the issue of Xinjiang internment camps and human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority in China.[77] Pompeo criticized Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his refusal to condemn the Chinese government's repressions against the Uyghurs.[78]

On October 10, 2018, Pompeo said Israel "is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward" and that the Israel–United States relations are "stronger than ever".[79] In March 2019, when questioned regarding Israel's conflicts with Iran and following a visit to the Western Wall with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pompeo spoke to "the work that our administration's done to make sure that this democracy in the Middle East, that this Jewish state, remains ... I am confident that the Lord is at work here."[80]

 
Pompeo with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in October 2018

On November 16, 2018, a CIA assessment was leaked to the media,[81] that concluded with "high confidence" Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the October 2, 2018, assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.[82] Under mounting pressure from lawmakers who wanted action against Saudi Arabia, Pompeo disputed the CIA's conclusion and declared there was no direct evidence linking the Crown Prince to the Khashoggi's assassination.[82][83]

In what was seen as an effort to promote his presumed candidacy in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Pompeo's book, "Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love," returned to his theme that the assassination and dismemberment was of little international consequence, that the victim was not a reporter of much, if any consequence, and was merely an "activist." He further denigrated Khashoggi as, "...cozy with the terrorist-supporting Muslim Brotherhood.”[82]

 
Pompeo and Vladimir Putin met in Sochi in May 2019.

On January 7, 2019, Pompeo began a diplomatic tour of the Middle East to assure regional U.S. partners that, amid the sudden withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, the U.S. mission to degrade and destroy the Islamic State and to counter Iranian influence in the region had not changed. The trip included stops in Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and the Gulf nations.[84]

 
Pompeo with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, September 2019

Pompeo announced on January 23, 2019, that Juan Guaidó would be recognized by the U.S. as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela, and that American diplomats in Caracas would remain at their posts, even as Nicolás Maduro gave them three days to evacuate the country upon Guaidó assumption of the presidency.[85] After protests for over "homophobic, racist and misogynist remarks" by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, a ceremony hosted by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce (originally set to honor Pompeo and Bolsonaro) was canceled.[86]

On May 14, 2019, Pompeo met for three hours with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and for ninety minutes with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. According to a Kremlin aide, they discussed Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START); Pompeo said he brought up—and Putin again denied—Russian election interference.[87]

In October 2019, the State Department web site promoted a speech by Pompeo "On Being a Christian Leader", which he delivered to the American Association of Christian Counselors in his official government role. Pompeo touts Christianity in his speech, describes how he applies his faith to his government work. The promotion of the speech by the State Department was met with criticism from those who believed it was incompatible with separation of church and state.[88][89][90] He also created the Commission on Unalienable Rights, and created a faith-based employee affinity group that includes contractors.[91]

Pompeo defended the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, saying Turkey has a "legitimate security concern" with "a terrorist threat to their south". However, Pompeo denied that the United States had given a "green light" for Turkey to attack the Kurds.[92]

In November 2019, Pompeo said the U.S. no longer views Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a violation of international law, breaking with decades of U.S. policy.[93]

In rejecting a claimed double standard in recognizing Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights but placing sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea in 2014, Pompeo said "What the President did with the Golan Heights is recognize the reality on the ground and the security situation necessary for the protection of the Israeli state."[94]

 
Pompeo with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020

In January 2020, the Trump administration approved a drone strike that assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Pompeo was reportedly among the most hawkish advisors within the administration during the meeting in which Trump decided to assassinate Soleimani.[95] On the day of the strike, Pompeo asserted the attack was ordered by Trump to disrupt an "imminent attack" by Soleimani operatives, although subsequent reports on that rationale were mixed.[96][97][98][99]

In January 2020, Pompeo abruptly ended an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR's All Things Considered, and called her to private quarters where he admonished her for asking questions regarding Ukraine during the interview.[100]

Pompeo praised Trump-brokered peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as an "enormous" step forward on the "right path".[101] On August 27, 2020, Pompeo, after visiting Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al-Said, concluded a Middle East trip aimed at encouraging Arab countries to follow the UAE's move. According to Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations, "... the lack of any additional public commitments during Secretary Pompeo's regional tour looks like an anti-climax [and] it is possible that a lack of clarity on the U.S. commitment to deliver F-35s to the UAE could have also played a part in slowing a second wave of normalisation."[102]

Madison dinners

From the time he took office in April 2018 until spring 2020, Pompeo had hosted about two dozen taxpayer-funded "Madison dinners" at the Diplomatic Reception Rooms in the State Department's headquarters) for hundreds of elite attendees.[103][104] The dinners were not mentioned on Pompeo's public schedule. 14% of the invitees were diplomats or foreign officials while approximately 25% were from—mostly conservative—media or the entertainment industry, 29% from the corporate world, and 30% from U.S. politics or government. Every invited congressional member was a Republican.[103] State Department officials and others raised concerns that the dinners did not serve any foreign policy purpose but were intended for Pompeo to cultivate supporters and donors for future political ambitions, especially since detailed contact information for each attendee was sent to Pompeo's wife's personal email address.[103][104] Pompeo temporarily suspended the "Madison dinners" when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., but resumed the dinners at the Blair House in September 2020, despite the controversy over them and concerns about public health.[104]

Records obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in 2021 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit revealed that the dinners had cost almost $65,000, including more than $10,000 for custom-engraved, Chinese-made pens given as gifts to the attendees. The funds for the dinners were taken from a special appropriation fund for emergencies in the diplomatic service called the K Fund. The Office of the Inspector General told CREW that it had not conducted an audit of K Fund expenditures during Pompeo's tenure.[105][106]

Inspector General investigations

After Trump fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick in May 2020,[107] it became known that Linick had begun an investigation into ethics violations by Pompeo and his wife alleged by whistle-blowers.[108][109] The investigation continued after his firing, and the review report was released in April 2021. The review had found more than 100 instances of misconduct where Pompeo requested that State Department staff perform personal errands for him and his wife,[110] "from booking salon appointments and private dinner reservations to picking up their dog and arranging tours for the Pompeos' political allies."[111] The inspector general concluded that the behavior was inconsistent with regulations [112][111][113] and "recommended that various divisions at the State Department, such as the Office of the Legal Adviser, update or draft new guidance that establishes or further clarifies the appropriate use of department funds and staffers when it comes to personal tasks."[111][114]

The Inspector General had also investigated Pompeo's role in the Trump administration's decision to declare an "emergency" to bypass a congressional freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Prior to his firing, Linick had requested an interview with Pompeo, which Pompeo had declined.[115] After Linick's firing, it was also revealed that he was investigating claims that a top Pompeo aide had failed to report allegations of workplace violence.[116] Pompeo denied that he sought to fire Linick in retaliation.[107]

Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump

Main article: Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
Further information: Trump–Ukraine scandal
 
Pompeo with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Kyiv, January 31, 2020

When asked about his knowledge of the controversial call made by President Trump on July 25, 2019, to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump solicited assistance in investigating the son of former vice president and presidential candidate Joseph Biden,[117] Pompeo initially said he had little knowledge of Trump's call with Zelenskiy since he had not yet read the transcript of the call. It was later confirmed by officials that he himself had been on the call.[118]

Pompeo informed the chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, and the House Oversight Committee that their subpoenas for documents regarding Trump's communications with the government of Ukraine "can be understood only as an attempt to 'intimidate, bully, and treat improperly, the distinguished professionals of the Department of State'".[119] The three chairmen stated on October 1, 2019, "Any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with Congress—including State Department employees—is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry."[120]

William B. Taylor Jr., acting ambassador to Ukraine and one of several current and former State Department officials appearing before congressional investigators, testified on October 22, 2019, that the White House was withholding military aid to Ukraine to force cooperation on U.S. domestic political issues, that Rudy Giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy effort parallel to official lines in the State Department, that when John Bolton and others fought the "effort to hijack" the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, Pompeo failed to respond directly to complaints, leaving Taylor to conclude that lack of timely, congressionally approved military aid would leave Ukrainians dying at the hands of Russian-led forces.[121]

In his public testimony on November 20, 2019, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland noted in his opening statement that United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, then-U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker and Sondland himself stayed in touch with Rudy Giuliani regarding the President's expectation that a public statement should be made by President Zelensky committing Ukraine to look into corruption issues, and that Giuliani "specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two topics of importance to the President". Sondland said they kept the leadership of the NSC and State Department, including Pompeo, informed about their activities, and that as late as September 24, Pompeo was still telling Volker to talk with Giuliani.[122]

An October 23, 2019, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight persuaded a federal judge to give the State Department 30 days to release Ukraine-related records, including communications between Pompeo and President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. On November 22, the State Department released internal emails and documents bolstering Sondland's congressional testimony that Pompeo had participated in Giuliani's activities relating to Ukraine. Pompeo and Giuliani exchanged emails and phone calls in late March 2019, before Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine. The documents also showed that the State Department had deliberately deceived Congress about the rationale for Marie Yovanovitch's removal as Ambassador to Ukraine.[123][124] Giuliani later admitted he had spoken to Pompeo on the phone in late March 2019 "to relay information he had gathered during his Ukrainian research". Upon Pompeo's request, he then provided him memos of his interviews of two former Ukrainian prosecutors. Giuliani said he later heard that the details of the memos were passed on to the State Department Inspector General (IG) and the F.B.I. for investigation.[123]

On November 26, 2019, Pompeo appeared to grant legitimacy to a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, rather than or in addition to Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 United States elections.[125] He had been asked by a reporter "Do you believe that the U.S. and Ukraine should investigate the theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that hacked the DNC emails in 2016?"[126] Pompeo responded "Any time there is information that indicates any country has messed with American elections, we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down," adding "to protect our elections, America should leave no stone unturned."[125][126]

COVID-19 pandemic

Pompeo said the U.S. government is trying to determine if the COVID-19 virus emanated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.[127][128] On April 23, 2020, Pompeo claimed that China had denied U.S. scientists permission to enter the country, in an effort to ascertain the origin of the current pandemic. He did not give details of any requests for such visits.[129] On May 13, 2020, Pompeo made a swift visit to Israel for his first trip overseas since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.[130]

During a spike in case and death numbers in the pandemic, Pompeo hosted large indoor holiday parties involving hundreds of guests, as well as alcohol and food. The parties violated public health guidance and were described as superspreader events. They also violated Washington D.C.'s restrictions on sizable indoor gatherings.[131] At the same time, the State Department was advising its employees not to have in-person gatherings.[131][132] Photos from the event showed attendees not wearing masks consistently.[133] In mid-December 2020, hundreds of invitees rejected invitations to go to one of Pompeo's parties.[133] A day later, Pompeo cancelled the final holiday party after he had come in contact with a COVID-19 positive individual.[134][135]

2019 emergency arms sale

In May 2019, Pompeo announced an "emergency" to push through $8.1 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing Iranian activity in the Middle East. This led to widespread Congressional opposition and eventually a probe by former State Department inspector general Steve Linick, who was fired by the Trump administration on Pompeo's recommendation. On August 10, 2020, the US State Department reported that Pompeo took proper procedures in declaring the "emergency". However, the statement issued by the department failed to fully assess the humanitarian impact of selling the weapons to the two Gulf countries, which had been using American bombs to wage a devastating war in Yemen, killing thousands of civilians.[136]

Republican National Convention speech

On August 25, 2020, Pompeo recorded a speech during an official diplomatic visit to Jerusalem,[137] during the Republican National Convention, in support of the incumbent and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Following the speech, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Oversight Subcommittee announced an investigation into whether the speech constituted a violation of the Hatch Act, which restricts executive branch civil service employees from participating in certain forms of political activity.[138] In response, a spokesperson for the State Department said the department was not bearing any of the costs of the speech and that Pompeo was conducting the speech in his "personal capacity"; the Oversight Subcommittee Chairman, Joaquin Castro, said the speech was "highly unusual and likely unprecedented" and "it appears that it may also be illegal."[138]

On August 28, Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee announced that the committee would be drafting a resolution holding Pompeo in contempt, saying "he has demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the constitution provides to prevent government corruption."[139] It was confirmed on October 26 that the Office of the Special Counsel had launched a probe into Pompeo's speech.[140]

Afghanistan and the Taliban

 
Pompeo with General Austin S. Miller in Kabul on June 25, 2019

Pompeo was involved in negotiations with the Taliban that set the stage for a U.S. departure from Afghanistan.[141] In early 2020, Pompeo touted the Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban that put the U.S. on a trajectory to leave Afghanistan by May 2021.[141] The deal required the Afghan government to release 5,000 imprisoned Taliban members. By August 2020, the Afghan government released all but 400 of the prisoners, as these prisoners had been accused of committing major crimes, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Pompeo urged the Afghan government to release the remaining prisoners to remove "the last obstacle to the start of intra-Afghan negotiations". Within three days, the Afghan president agreed to the release, which was completed the next month.[142][143]

Later, the Joe Biden administration extended the withdrawal timeline to August 2021, and Pompeo expressed support for it.[141] However, after the U.S. had left Afghanistan, the Ashraf Ghani government rapidly collapsed and the Taliban regained substantial territory, Pompeo distanced himself and the Trump administration from the situation facing Afghanistan post-withdrawal.[141][144][145][146]

Final days in office

After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election and Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Pompeo, when asked whether there would be a "smooth transition" to the Biden administration, responded on November 10, 2020: "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration, all right. We're ready. The world is watching what's taking place here. We're gonna count all the votes. When the process is complete, they'll be electors selected."[147][148][149]

The day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent the counting of the electoral votes (thus formalizing the upcoming presidency of Biden), the State Department told diplomats to affirm Biden's victory.[150] On January 8, Pompeo met with Biden's incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken.[151] While other Trump Cabinet members resigned or took a low profile after the attack on the Capitol, in which Trump's role was debated, Pompeo remained a vocal defender of Trump, sending a Twitter message that promoted him as a potential Nobel Peace Prize nominee.[152] He urged followers of the State Department's Twitter account to follow his personal account; criticized the news media, and complained about purported "censorship" of conservatives on social media websites.[152]

 
Pompeo departs the Department of State on January 20, 2021.

On January 12, 2021, Pompeo cancelled a planned European trip when European diplomats declined to meet with him.[153]

Pompeo made a large number of foreign policy decisions in the last weeks of the Trump administration leading up the inauguration of Joe Biden, including many likely to be reversed under Biden.[152] Pompeo ordered the re-designation of Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism"[152][154] and designating the Houthi rebels as a "foreign terrorist organization".[152] The latter decision indirectly reduced humanitarian aid to Yemeni people, and it was quickly reversed by the Biden administration.[155]

On January 19, 2021, Pompeo announced that the Department of State had determined that "genocide and crimes against humanity" had been perpetrated by China against the Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.[156][157] The announcement was made on the last day of the presidency of Donald Trump.[156] On January 20, 2021, Pompeo along with other Trump administration officials were sanctioned by China. These individuals and their immediate family members were banned from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, and have also been restricted from doing business with China either individually or through their companies and institutions.[158][159] President Biden's National Security Council called the sanctions "unproductive and cynical".[160]

Potential 2020 U.S. Senate bid

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas

Following an announcement that U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, a four-term Republican, would not seek re-election in 2020,[161] there was speculation that Pompeo would run for U.S. Senate from Kansas.[162] He still had almost one million dollars in his congressional campaign account as of June 2019, which could be used in a Senate bid.[161] In March 2019, Pompeo said he had ruled out a 2020 Senate run although he implied an openness to seeking statewide office in the future.[163] In July 2019, Pompeo "appeared to re-open the door to a Kansas Senate run, telling a Kansas City radio station that he will 'always leave open the possibility that something will change'." Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell expressed a desire for Pompeo to enter the race.[164] On July 29, Pompeo indicated that a 2020 Senate run was "off the table".[165]

Nevertheless, speculation continued to swirl in August 2019 regarding a potential Senate run. The speculation was driven by concern that Kris Kobach, who lost the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial race, could become the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate if Pompeo does not run. Specifically, some Republicans feared Kobach would "again tap a conservative base, emerge from a crowded primary, alienate moderate voters and lose an otherwise safe seat that Republicans likely need to maintain their narrow Senate majority". Several other Republican candidates, including state Senate President Susan Wagle, Congressman Roger Marshall, and former Trump, Pompeo, and Koch network staffer Alan Cobb, the CEO and President of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce in 2019,[166] said they would step aside if Pompeo entered the race.[161]

On October 29, 2019, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez filed a complaint about Pompeo's repeated trips to Kansas, calling for review of whether Pompeo was engaging in political activity while traveling in an official capacity on taxpayer funds and thereby violating the Hatch Act of 1939. Menendez's complaint referenced a Wall Street Journal article saying that during his visit to Kansas, Pompeo met with GOP donor Charles Koch to discuss the Kansas senate race.[167]

In an interview on November 22, 2019, Trump discussed Pompeo's interest in running for Senate from Kansas. Trump said that, in their discussion, Pompeo explained he would prefer to stay in his job as Secretary of State and would run only if it were necessary to keep a Republican seat in the Senate.[168]

Efforts to recruit him into the race continued through the June 1 filing deadline, but he ultimately did not file.[169] The general election was won by Republican U.S. Representative Roger Marshall.[170]

Political positions

Foreign policy

In 2013, Pompeo supported the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, referring to the agency's efforts as "good and important work".[171] In 2016 Pompeo stated, "Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection."[172] In March 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing a series of documents known as Vault 7, detailing the CIA's electronic surveillance and cyber warfare activities and capabilities. In an April 2017 speech addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pompeo called WikiLeaks "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described Assange as a "narcissist" and "a fraud—a coward hiding behind a screen".[173][174]

In a 2013 speech on the House floor, Pompeo said Muslim leaders who fail to denounce acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam are "potentially complicit" in the attacks.[175] The Council on American–Islamic Relations called on him to revise his remarks, calling them "false and irresponsible".[176] In 2016, ACT! for America gave Pompeo a "national security eagle award" for his comments on Islam.[177] Pompeo has been a frequent guest on anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney's radio show for the Center for Security Policy.[177] As a congressman, he cosponsored legislation to add the Muslim Brotherhood to the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.[178][179]

Pompeo opposed closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[180] After a 2013 visit to the prison, he said, of the prisoners who were on hunger strike, "It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight."[181] He criticized the Obama administration's decision to end secret prisons and its requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti-torture laws.[182]

In March 2014, he denounced the inclusion of a telecast by Edward Snowden at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, and asked that it be cancelled, predicting it would encourage "lawless behavior" among attendees.[183] In February 2016, Pompeo said Snowden "should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence."[184] But he has spoken in favor of reforming the Federal Records Act, one of the laws under which Snowden was charged, saying, "I'm not sure there's a whole lot of change that needs to happen to the Espionage Act. The Federal Records Act clearly needs updating to reflect the different ways information is communicated and stored. Given the move in technology and communication methods, I think it's probably due for an update."[185]

On July 21, 2015, Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton alleged the existence of secret side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on procedures for inspection and verification of Iran's nuclear activities under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Obama administration officials acknowledged the existence of agreements between Iran and the IAEA governing the inspection of sensitive military sites but denied that they were "secret side deals", calling them standard practice in crafting arms-control pacts and saying the administration had provided information about them to Congress.[186]

In November 2015, Pompeo visited Israel and said, "Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu is a true partner of the American people."[187] He supported Trump's 2017 decision to move America's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.[188]

In 2017, Pompeo worked to undermine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran (which had been negotiated by the Obama administration) saying, "I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism."[189] He also said a better option than negotiating with Iran would be to use "under 2,000 sorties to destroy the Iranian nuclear capacity. This is not an insurmountable task for the coalition forces."

 
President Trump, joined by Pompeo and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 25, 2019.

In 2017, it was reported that Pompeo had expressed desire for regime change in North Korea.[190] In July 2017, he said "It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula, to get those weapons off of that, but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today."[191]

In September 2018, Pompeo "backed continued U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen over the objections of staff members after being warned that a cutoff could jeopardize $2 billion in weapons sales to America's Gulf allies, according to a classified memo and people familiar with the decision".[192]

In November 2018, Pompeo blamed Iran for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, saying, "Iran causes death and destruction inside of Yemen and does nothing to prevent the starvation," while Saudi Arabia has "provided millions and millions of dollars of humanitarian relief" for Yemen.[193]

While being interviewed on a podcast in 2023, Pompeo claimed that Israel has a biblical claim to the Palestinian territories, and therefore the situation can not be defined as an occupation. Pompeo made several explosive statements during the interview, including called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a "known terrorist".[194]

China

 
Pompeo and Chinese Communist Party general secretary and Chinese president Xi Jinping

During his tenure as Secretary of State, Pompeo was an outspoken critic of China. Pompeo suggested that Chinese investment in Israel would create issues between the U.S. and Israel, and threatened to reduce security arrangements between the countries, although he also claimed that he would have no problems with open and transparent investments.[195] He accused the World Health Organization of being under control of the People's Republic of China and implicated China as being behind the significant number of deaths in the UK as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[196] He praised the UK when they started to push back against the Chinese Communist Party and its General Secretary Xi Jinping, especially with respect to Huawei.[197] He also said he preferred a new coalition that did not need to go through established institutions that were set up by the United States, such as the United Nations.[198] He argued that China was a "new tyranny" and it was the duty of "every leader of every nation" to stand up to China.[199]

Pompeo has also argued that China's claims and activities in the South China Sea were illegal. In addition he said the Chinese authorities were not allowed to take unilateral action in the area.[200] This is despite the fact that many, such as Walter A. McDougall's Promised Land, Crusader State (1997), John Lewis Gaddis's Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), and Bradley F. Podliska's Acting Alone (2010) believe it is in the United States' own national interests to be allowed unilateral power.[201] Michael Hirson, at Eurasia Group, argued that Pompeo was calling for regime change.[202] He called on the Chinese people to betray their government and rise up to change the Chinese Communist Party.[203]

On July 23, 2020, Pompeo, during his Communist China and the Free World's Future speech, announced the end of what he called "blind engagement" with the Chinese government. He also criticized Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping[204] as "a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology".[205]

The former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Daniel Russel, argued that it would have "the opposite effect, in bolstering support in China for Xi Jinping and deepening anger towards the United States". Michael Hirson noted that with the 2020 U.S. presidential election nearing, it was unlikely Chinese policymakers would do anything to change their relationship.[202]

In September 2020, Pompeo accused the Chinese government of trying to foment racial unrest in the United States during an address to state lawmakers in Wisconsin.[206]

In October 2020, Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, and Pompeo cancelled scheduled meetings with South Korea and Mongolia.[207] However, he still met with allies from Australia, India and Japan, despite there being a risk of infecting his key counterparts, and accused the Chinese Communist Party of "exploitation, corruption and coercion".[208]

Taiwan

Visiting Taipei in 2022, Pompeo said that the U.S. should recognize Republic of China (Taiwan) as an independent country.[209]

Russia

During his confirmation hearing, Pompeo said Russia "has reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nearly nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS".[210]

In August 2018, Pompeo called Russia to "immediately release" jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.[211]

In February 2022, right before Russia invaded Ukraine, Pompeo gave an interview in which he praised Russian president Vladimir Putin. Russian state television aired the interview. Pompeo's comments reflected comments made by Trump after the invasion praising Putin.[212] The same month during a speech at a Conservative Political Action Conference Pompeo called Putin a "Dictator" over the invasion, though also stated that he has continues to believe that China is a greater national security threat to the United States then Russia.[213]

During a speech at the Hudson Institute in June 2022 Pompeo described the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a "planned genocide" that is designed to create a "new Russian Empire" similar to the Soviet Union with large amounts of energy reserves.[214]

Energy and environment

 
Pompeo at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

Speaking about climate change in 2013, Pompeo said: "There are scientists who think lots of different things about climate change. There's some who think we're warming, there's some who think we're cooling, there's some who think that the last 16 years have shown a pretty stable climate environment."[215] He has said, "Federal policy should be about the American family, not worshipping a radical environmental agenda." In 2009 Pompeo signed the No Climate Tax pledge of Americans for Prosperity.[216] He called the Obama administration's environment and climate change plans "damaging" and "radical". In 2012 he called for the permanent elimination of wind power production tax credits, calling them an "enormous government handout".[217]

In 2015, Pompeo opposed the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the United States and supported eliminating the United States federal register of greenhouse gas emissions.[218] As a member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, he voted for two resolutions disapproving of the Clean Power Plan implemented by the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration.

In May 2019, Pompeo acted against environmental protection at the Arctic Council. He refused to sign on to a joint statement addressing the need for protection of the Arctic region from the threat of rapidly melting ice unless all mentions of climate change were removed from the document. He said, "Climate change is actually good for the Arctic, since melting ice caps are 'opening up new shipping routes' and thus making it more economically viable to expand oil drilling in the region."[219][220]

He described the Paris climate accord, along with the World Health Organisation and Human Rights Council as one of the "three sins".[198]

Health care

Pompeo opposed the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[221] Pompeo has been criticized for saying he supports funding for certain programs, yet opposing them when they are a part of the ACA.[222] He accused the World Health Organization of being under control of the People's Republic of China.[196] The WHO responded by saying Pompeo's comments were unacceptable and a distraction from dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an American who was head of the WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the time of the pandemic also expressed pride at the WHO for "saving lives".[223] It was argued that the attempt to blame the WHO was a way to draw attention away from the failings of the Trump administration.[224]

Social issues

 
Congressman Pompeo at FreedomWorks New Fair Deal rally outside the U.S. Capitol, April 2013

Pompeo has stated that life begins at conception and believes abortions should be allowed only when necessary to save the life of the mother, with no exceptions for rape.[225] In 2011, he voted for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would have banned federal health coverage that includes abortion. On May 31, 2011, he voted for H.R.2059 11-HR2059, which eliminated funding for the United Nations Population Fund.[226]

He opposes same-sex marriage and sponsored bills to let states prevent same-sex couples from marrying.[227][228]

Pompeo was instrumental in the development of the anti-abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration.[229]

Economy

Pompeo supported the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, blaming President Obama. He said he believed the shutdown was necessary to avoid an "American financial collapse 10 years from now".[230]

International Criminal Court

Mike Pompeo has continued a non-cooperative policy towards the International Criminal Court in The Hague, enacting sanctions against the ICC's chief prosecutor and other officials in September 2020.[231] Some security experts have suggested Pompeo himself could potentially face charges under the ICC statutes for CIA activities in Afghanistan during his time as director of that agency.[232][233]

Post-Trump administration

 
Pompeo meeting with President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, March 2022

In January 2021, Pompeo joined the Hudson Institute as a distinguished fellow.[234]

On January 20, 2021, following the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, China announced that it has imposed sanctions on Pompeo and 28 other Trump administration officials. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China stated that it had decided to sanction those "who have seriously violated China's sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such U.S. moves on China-related issues." The sanctions prohibit these individuals and their immediate family members from entering mainland China, and special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao. They are also restricted from doing business with China, as are any companies or institutions associated with them. In response, the spokesperson of the United States National Security Council Emily Horne criticized the sanctions as an “unproductive and cynical move”.[235][236]

In August 2022 it emerged that Pompeo was the target of an assassination plot by Iran.[237]

In January 2023, HarperCollins published Pompeo's memoir of his tenure in the Trump Administration, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.

Pompeo considered a candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and toured early primary states, but ultimately announced his decision not to run in April 2023.[238]

Personal life

 
Mike Pompeo (center) with wife Susan and son Nicholas in 2018

Pompeo married Leslie Libert in 1986.[12] The couple later divorced. He then married Susan Justice Mostrous in 2000 and formally adopted her son, Nicholas.[239][240]

Pompeo is affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.[241][242] Pompeo served as a local church deacon from 2007 to 2009 and taught Sunday school.[243]

In 2014, Pompeo told a church group that Christians needed to "know that Jesus Christ as our savior is truly the only solution for our world".[244] In 2015 in a talk at a church, Pompeo said that "politics is a never-ending struggle ... until the Rapture."[245]

In an interview with Fox News in January 2022, Pompeo said he has lost over 90 lb (41 kg) in the prior six months through self-guided exercises and dietary changes. Experts were skeptical of Pompeo's claim that such changes could have produced this weight loss in a man his age, and The Guardian said that Pompeo's history of misleading statements cast further doubt on his claims.[246]

Foreign honors

Mike Pompeo was awarded:

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Michael Richard Pompeo p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ oʊ born December 30 1963 is an American politician former lawyer and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021 He is the first person to have held both of those positions Mike PompeoOfficial portrait 201870th United States Secretary of StateIn office April 26 2018 January 20 2021PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyJohn SullivanStephen BiegunPreceded byRex TillersonSucceeded byAntony Blinken6th Director of the Central Intelligence AgencyIn office January 23 2017 April 26 2018PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyGina HaspelPreceded byJohn BrennanSucceeded byGina HaspelMember of the U S House of Representatives from Kansas s 4th districtIn office January 3 2011 January 23 2017Preceded byTodd TiahrtSucceeded byRon EstesPersonal detailsBornMichael Richard Pompeo 1963 12 30 December 30 1963 age 59 Orange California U S Political partyRepublicanSpouse s Leslie Libert m 1986 div 1997 wbr Susan Justice Mostrous m 2000 wbr Children1Residence s Wichita Kansas U S EducationUnited States Military Academy BS Harvard University JD SignatureMilitary serviceAllegiance United StatesBranch service United States ArmyYears of service1986 1991 1 RankCaptainUnit2nd Squadron 7th Cavalry Regiment4th Infantry DivisionAfter graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1986 and his obligatory five year service as a United States Army officer Pompeo went on to graduate from Harvard Law School He worked as an attorney until 1998 and then became an entrepreneur in the aerospace and oilfield industries Pompeo was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2010 representing Kansas s 4th congressional district until 2017 Once a critic of Donald Trump whom he called authoritarian Pompeo became one of his biggest supporters after Trump became the Republican nominee in the 2016 presidential election Trump appointed him Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in January 2017 and Secretary of State in April 2018 Pompeo was the Trump Administration s most vocal critic of the Chinese government including his opposition to the oppression of Uyghurs and focused U S China relations in opposition to China s policies regarding Hong Kong Taiwan and the South China Sea He advocated for moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran During Pompeo s tenure as Secretary of State he prioritized grounding human rights in religious liberty 2 and brokering peace in the Middle East He established the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom 3 moved the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem 4 and negotiated the Abraham Accords which established diplomatic normalcy between Israel and the United Arab Emirates 5 He was among the staunchest Trump loyalists in the Cabinet and routinely flouted State Department norms in aid of Trump s objectives including supporting Trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election 6 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early career 3 U S House of Representatives 2011 2017 3 1 Elections 3 2 Tenure in Congress 4 CIA Director 2017 2018 5 U S Secretary of State 2018 2021 5 1 Nomination and confirmation 5 2 Tenure as Secretary of State 5 2 1 Madison dinners 5 2 2 Inspector General investigations 5 2 3 Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump 5 2 4 COVID 19 pandemic 5 2 5 2019 emergency arms sale 5 2 6 Republican National Convention speech 5 2 7 Afghanistan and the Taliban 5 2 8 Final days in office 6 Potential 2020 U S Senate bid 7 Political positions 7 1 Foreign policy 7 1 1 China 7 1 2 Taiwan 7 1 3 Russia 7 2 Energy and environment 7 3 Health care 7 4 Social issues 7 5 Economy 7 6 International Criminal Court 8 Post Trump administration 9 Personal life 10 Foreign honors 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksEarly life and educationPompeo was born in Orange California the son of Dorothy born Mercer and Wayne Pompeo 7 8 His paternal great grandparents Carlo Pompeo and Adelina Tollis were born in Pacentro Abruzzo Italy and emigrated to the United States in 1899 and 1900 respectively 9 In 1982 Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley California where he played forward on the basketball team 10 In 1986 Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he majored in engineering management 7 11 12 He was a classmate of Brian Bulatao and Ulrich Brechbuhl who later helped him found Thayer Aerospace 13 From 1986 to 1991 Pompeo served in the U S Army as an armor officer with the West Germany based 2nd Squadron 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division He served as a tank platoon leader before becoming a cavalry troop executive officer and then the squadron maintenance officer 14 Pompeo left the U S Army at the rank of captain 1 15 16 17 In 1994 Pompeo earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law amp Public Policy 18 19 20 Early careerAfter graduating from law school he worked as a lawyer for Williams amp Connolly in Washington 21 In 1996 Pompeo moved to Wichita Kansas where he and three West Point friends Brian Bulatao Ulrich Brechbuhl and Michael Stradinger acquired three aircraft part manufacturers there Aero Machine Precision Profiling B amp B Machine and in St Louis Advance Tool amp Die renaming the entity Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer 22 23 24 25 Venture funding for the private organization included a nearly 20 investment from Koch Industries 22 as well as Dallas based Cardinal Investment and Bain amp Company Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time 26 23 Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded but Pompeo and Bulatao continued In 2006 he sold his interest in the company which by then had been renamed Nex Tech Aerospace to Highland Capital Management which had clients including Lockheed Martin Gulfstream Aerospace Cessna Aircraft Boeing Spirit AeroSystems and Raytheon Aircraft 27 Pompeo then became president of Sentry International an oilfield equipment manufacturer that was also a partner of Koch Industries 28 In 2017 when Pompeo became head of the CIA he named his former business partner Brian Bulatao the agency s chief operating officer 24 U S House of Representatives 2011 2017 Elections U S congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014 Pompeo represented Kansas s 4th congressional district from 2011 until his January 2017 appointment to director of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA 29 In the 2010 election Pompeo won the Republican primary for Kansas s 4th District congressional seat with 39 of the vote 30 defeating state senator Jean Schodorf who received 24 and two other candidates 31 32 Late in the primary Schodorf began to surge in the polls prompting two outside groups Common Sense Issues and Americans for Prosperity to spend tens of thousands of dollars in the campaign s final days to attack Schodorf and support Pompeo 33 In the general election Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Raj Goyle a member of the Kansas House of Representatives Pompeo received 59 of the vote 117 171 votes to 36 for Goyle 71 866 34 During Pompeo s campaign its affiliated Twitter account praised as a good read a news article that called Goyle his Indian American opponent a turban topper who could be a muslim a hindu a buddhist etc who knows Pompeo later apologized to Goyle for the tweet 35 Pompeo received 80 000 in donations during the campaign from Koch Industries and its employees 36 In the 2012 election Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Robert Tillman by a margin of 62 32 37 Koch Industries gave Pompeo s campaign 110 000 38 In the 2014 election Pompeo won the general election with 67 of the vote defeating Democrat Perry Schuckman 39 In the 2016 election Pompeo beat Democrat Daniel B Giroux in the general election with 61 of the vote 40 Tenure in Congress Pompeo served on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy the United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on the CIA and the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi 41 Pompeo was a member of the Congressional Constitution Caucus 42 Pompeo was original sponsor of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 43 CIA Director 2017 2018 Official portrait of Mike Pompeo as CIA Director World War II veterans being honored at Bastille Day celebrations on July 13 2017 On November 18 2016 President elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pompeo to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency 44 He was confirmed by the Senate on January 23 2017 with a vote of 66 32 and sworn in later that day 45 46 In his confirmation he failed to disclose the links between his company in Kansas and a Chinese government owned firm 47 In February 2017 Pompeo traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia He met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss policy on Syria and ISIL 48 Pompeo honored the then crown prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Nayef with the CIA s George Tenet Medal 49 It was the first reaffirmation of Saudi Arabia United States relations since Trump took office in January 2017 50 In March 2017 Pompeo formally invoked state secrets privilege to prevent CIA officers including Gina Haspel and James Cotsana from being compelled to testify in the trial of Bruce Jessen and James Elmer Mitchell 51 In June 2017 Pompeo named Michael D Andrea head of the CIA s Iran mission center 52 In August 2017 Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center the department which helped to launch an investigation into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials 53 Former CIA officials including John Sipher expressed concern given Pompeo s proximity to the White House and Donald Trump 54 In September 2017 Pompeo sought authority for the CIA to make covert drone strikes without the Pentagon s involvement including inside Afghanistan 55 During Easter weekend 2018 Pompeo visited North Korea and met with Supreme Leader Kim Jong un to discuss the upcoming 2018 North Korea United States summit between Kim and Trump 56 Pompeo usually personally delivered the president s daily brief in the Oval Office 57 At Trump s request Pompeo met with former NSA official William E Binney to discuss his doubts of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections 58 At the suggestion of Tony Perkins president of the Family Research Council Pompeo planned to hire chaplains at the CIA 58 U S Secretary of State 2018 2021 Main articles Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration and List of international trips made by Mike Pompeo as United States Secretary of State Nomination and confirmation President Trump announced on March 13 2018 that he would nominate Pompeo to serve as secretary of state succeeding Rex Tillerson who stepped down on March 31 2018 On April 23 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11 9 in favor of sending Pompeo s nomination to the full Senate with Senator Chris Coons voting present and Johnny Isakson who was absent that day voting yes by proxy 59 In the interest of saving the committee s time Coons decided to vote present as the vote would have been tied if he had voted no on the nomination with Isakson absent a situation that would have nullified his vote 60 The Senate floor vote took place on April 26 and Pompeo was confirmed by the full Senate by a 57 42 vote with five of ten Democratic senators running for reelection in 2018 in states that Trump won in 2016 voting to confirm Pompeo 61 62 63 Pompeo was sworn in on April 26 2018 64 In testimony before the senate he promised to prioritize improving the low morale issue at the State Department 64 Confirmation processVoting body Vote date Vote resultsSenate Committee on Foreign Relations April 12 2018 11 9Full Senate April 23 2018 57 42Tenure as Secretary of State Pompeo with Kim Jong un During his tenure as Secretary of State Pompeo was described as among the staunchest Trump loyalists in the Cabinet 65 During his tenure he routinely flouted norms followed by his predecessors 65 These included a speech via satellite from Jerusalem supporting Trump s re election firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick and standing on the sidelines while Trump and his allies conducted a smear campaign against career diplomat Marie Yovanovitch 66 65 67 68 Under Pompeo s tenure career State Department officials quit were forced into retirement or fired and were replaced by inexperienced political appointees 69 Like Trump Pompeo praised dictators and criticized the U S s traditional democratic allies 65 69 International relations scholars Daniel Drezner Richard Sokolsky and Aaron David Miller described Pompeo as the worst secretary of state in American history citing numerous foreign policy failures fealty to Trump at the cost of U S national interest and improprieties in office 70 71 Pompeo played a role in Trump s three summits with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong un The summits failed to achieve any reduction in North Korea s nuclear arsenal 72 73 In a 2021 interview with a conservative podcast Pompeo said that I regret that we didn t make more progress on North Korea 72 In August 2018 Pompeo thanked Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman for Saudi Arabia s support for northeast Syria s urgent stabilization needs 74 Pompeo and Crown Prince also discussed the situation in war torn Yemen 75 Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu April 2018 Pompeo condemned the military crackdown by the Myanmar Army and police on Rohingya Muslims 76 In July 2018 Pompeo raised the issue of Xinjiang internment camps and human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority in China 77 Pompeo criticized Iran s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his refusal to condemn the Chinese government s repressions against the Uyghurs 78 On October 10 2018 Pompeo said Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward and that the Israel United States relations are stronger than ever 79 In March 2019 when questioned regarding Israel s conflicts with Iran and following a visit to the Western Wall with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pompeo spoke to the work that our administration s done to make sure that this democracy in the Middle East that this Jewish state remains I am confident that the Lord is at work here 80 Pompeo with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in October 2018 On November 16 2018 a CIA assessment was leaked to the media 81 that concluded with high confidence Saudi Arabia s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the October 2 2018 assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi 82 Under mounting pressure from lawmakers who wanted action against Saudi Arabia Pompeo disputed the CIA s conclusion and declared there was no direct evidence linking the Crown Prince to the Khashoggi s assassination 82 83 In what was seen as an effort to promote his presumed candidacy in the 2024 Republican presidential primary Pompeo s book Never Give an Inch Fighting for the America I Love returned to his theme that the assassination and dismemberment was of little international consequence that the victim was not a reporter of much if any consequence and was merely an activist He further denigrated Khashoggi as cozy with the terrorist supporting Muslim Brotherhood 82 Pompeo and Vladimir Putin met in Sochi in May 2019 On January 7 2019 Pompeo began a diplomatic tour of the Middle East to assure regional U S partners that amid the sudden withdrawal of U S troops from Syria the U S mission to degrade and destroy the Islamic State and to counter Iranian influence in the region had not changed The trip included stops in Jordan Iraq Egypt and the Gulf nations 84 Pompeo with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi September 2019 Pompeo announced on January 23 2019 that Juan Guaido would be recognized by the U S as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela and that American diplomats in Caracas would remain at their posts even as Nicolas Maduro gave them three days to evacuate the country upon Guaido assumption of the presidency 85 After protests for over homophobic racist and misogynist remarks by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro a ceremony hosted by the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce originally set to honor Pompeo and Bolsonaro was canceled 86 On May 14 2019 Pompeo met for three hours with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and for ninety minutes with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi Russia According to a Kremlin aide they discussed Syria North Korea Iran Venezuela and the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty New START Pompeo said he brought up and Putin again denied Russian election interference 87 In October 2019 the State Department web site promoted a speech by Pompeo On Being a Christian Leader which he delivered to the American Association of Christian Counselors in his official government role Pompeo touts Christianity in his speech describes how he applies his faith to his government work The promotion of the speech by the State Department was met with criticism from those who believed it was incompatible with separation of church and state 88 89 90 He also created the Commission on Unalienable Rights and created a faith based employee affinity group that includes contractors 91 Pompeo defended the 2019 Turkish offensive into north eastern Syria saying Turkey has a legitimate security concern with a terrorist threat to their south However Pompeo denied that the United States had given a green light for Turkey to attack the Kurds 92 In November 2019 Pompeo said the U S no longer views Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a violation of international law breaking with decades of U S policy 93 In rejecting a claimed double standard in recognizing Israel s annexation of the Golan Heights but placing sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea in 2014 Pompeo said What the President did with the Golan Heights is recognize the reality on the ground and the security situation necessary for the protection of the Israeli state 94 Pompeo with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in Khartoum Sudan on August 25 2020 In January 2020 the Trump administration approved a drone strike that assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani Pompeo was reportedly among the most hawkish advisors within the administration during the meeting in which Trump decided to assassinate Soleimani 95 On the day of the strike Pompeo asserted the attack was ordered by Trump to disrupt an imminent attack by Soleimani operatives although subsequent reports on that rationale were mixed 96 97 98 99 In January 2020 Pompeo abruptly ended an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR s All Things Considered and called her to private quarters where he admonished her for asking questions regarding Ukraine during the interview 100 Pompeo praised Trump brokered peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as an enormous step forward on the right path 101 On August 27 2020 Pompeo after visiting Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said concluded a Middle East trip aimed at encouraging Arab countries to follow the UAE s move According to Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations the lack of any additional public commitments during Secretary Pompeo s regional tour looks like an anti climax and it is possible that a lack of clarity on the U S commitment to deliver F 35s to the UAE could have also played a part in slowing a second wave of normalisation 102 Madison dinners From the time he took office in April 2018 until spring 2020 Pompeo had hosted about two dozen taxpayer funded Madison dinners at the Diplomatic Reception Rooms in the State Department s headquarters for hundreds of elite attendees 103 104 The dinners were not mentioned on Pompeo s public schedule 14 of the invitees were diplomats or foreign officials while approximately 25 were from mostly conservative media or the entertainment industry 29 from the corporate world and 30 from U S politics or government Every invited congressional member was a Republican 103 State Department officials and others raised concerns that the dinners did not serve any foreign policy purpose but were intended for Pompeo to cultivate supporters and donors for future political ambitions especially since detailed contact information for each attendee was sent to Pompeo s wife s personal email address 103 104 Pompeo temporarily suspended the Madison dinners when the COVID 19 pandemic hit the U S but resumed the dinners at the Blair House in September 2020 despite the controversy over them and concerns about public health 104 Records obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW in 2021 through a Freedom of Information Act FOIA lawsuit revealed that the dinners had cost almost 65 000 including more than 10 000 for custom engraved Chinese made pens given as gifts to the attendees The funds for the dinners were taken from a special appropriation fund for emergencies in the diplomatic service called the K Fund The Office of the Inspector General told CREW that it had not conducted an audit of K Fund expenditures during Pompeo s tenure 105 106 Inspector General investigations After Trump fired the State Department Inspector General Steve Linick in May 2020 107 it became known that Linick had begun an investigation into ethics violations by Pompeo and his wife alleged by whistle blowers 108 109 The investigation continued after his firing and the review report was released in April 2021 The review had found more than 100 instances of misconduct where Pompeo requested that State Department staff perform personal errands for him and his wife 110 from booking salon appointments and private dinner reservations to picking up their dog and arranging tours for the Pompeos political allies 111 The inspector general concluded that the behavior was inconsistent with regulations 112 111 113 and recommended that various divisions at the State Department such as the Office of the Legal Adviser update or draft new guidance that establishes or further clarifies the appropriate use of department funds and staffers when it comes to personal tasks 111 114 The Inspector General had also investigated Pompeo s role in the Trump administration s decision to declare an emergency to bypass a congressional freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE Prior to his firing Linick had requested an interview with Pompeo which Pompeo had declined 115 After Linick s firing it was also revealed that he was investigating claims that a top Pompeo aide had failed to report allegations of workplace violence 116 Pompeo denied that he sought to fire Linick in retaliation 107 Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump Main article Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump Further information Trump Ukraine scandal Pompeo with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Kyiv January 31 2020 When asked about his knowledge of the controversial call made by President Trump on July 25 2019 to Ukraine s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which Trump solicited assistance in investigating the son of former vice president and presidential candidate Joseph Biden 117 Pompeo initially said he had little knowledge of Trump s call with Zelenskiy since he had not yet read the transcript of the call It was later confirmed by officials that he himself had been on the call 118 Pompeo informed the chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs Committee the House Intelligence Committee and the House Oversight Committee that their subpoenas for documents regarding Trump s communications with the government of Ukraine can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate bully and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State 119 The three chairmen stated on October 1 2019 Any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with Congress including State Department employees is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry 120 William B Taylor Jr acting ambassador to Ukraine and one of several current and former State Department officials appearing before congressional investigators testified on October 22 2019 that the White House was withholding military aid to Ukraine to force cooperation on U S domestic political issues that Rudy Giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy effort parallel to official lines in the State Department that when John Bolton and others fought the effort to hijack the U S relationship with Ukraine Pompeo failed to respond directly to complaints leaving Taylor to conclude that lack of timely congressionally approved military aid would leave Ukrainians dying at the hands of Russian led forces 121 In his public testimony on November 20 2019 Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland noted in his opening statement that United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry then U S Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker and Sondland himself stayed in touch with Rudy Giuliani regarding the President s expectation that a public statement should be made by President Zelensky committing Ukraine to look into corruption issues and that Giuliani specifically mentioned the 2016 election including the DNC server and Burisma as two topics of importance to the President Sondland said they kept the leadership of the NSC and State Department including Pompeo informed about their activities and that as late as September 24 Pompeo was still telling Volker to talk with Giuliani 122 An October 23 2019 Freedom of Information Act FOIA request by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight persuaded a federal judge to give the State Department 30 days to release Ukraine related records including communications between Pompeo and President Trump s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani On November 22 the State Department released internal emails and documents bolstering Sondland s congressional testimony that Pompeo had participated in Giuliani s activities relating to Ukraine Pompeo and Giuliani exchanged emails and phone calls in late March 2019 before Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine The documents also showed that the State Department had deliberately deceived Congress about the rationale for Marie Yovanovitch s removal as Ambassador to Ukraine 123 124 Giuliani later admitted he had spoken to Pompeo on the phone in late March 2019 to relay information he had gathered during his Ukrainian research Upon Pompeo s request he then provided him memos of his interviews of two former Ukrainian prosecutors Giuliani said he later heard that the details of the memos were passed on to the State Department Inspector General IG and the F B I for investigation 123 On November 26 2019 Pompeo appeared to grant legitimacy to a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine rather than or in addition to Russia was behind interference in the 2016 United States elections 125 He had been asked by a reporter Do you believe that the U S and Ukraine should investigate the theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that hacked the DNC emails in 2016 126 Pompeo responded Any time there is information that indicates any country has messed with American elections we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down adding to protect our elections America should leave no stone unturned 125 126 COVID 19 pandemic Pompeo said the U S government is trying to determine if the COVID 19 virus emanated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology 127 128 On April 23 2020 Pompeo claimed that China had denied U S scientists permission to enter the country in an effort to ascertain the origin of the current pandemic He did not give details of any requests for such visits 129 On May 13 2020 Pompeo made a swift visit to Israel for his first trip overseas since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic 130 During a spike in case and death numbers in the pandemic Pompeo hosted large indoor holiday parties involving hundreds of guests as well as alcohol and food The parties violated public health guidance and were described as superspreader events They also violated Washington D C s restrictions on sizable indoor gatherings 131 At the same time the State Department was advising its employees not to have in person gatherings 131 132 Photos from the event showed attendees not wearing masks consistently 133 In mid December 2020 hundreds of invitees rejected invitations to go to one of Pompeo s parties 133 A day later Pompeo cancelled the final holiday party after he had come in contact with a COVID 19 positive individual 134 135 2019 emergency arms sale In May 2019 Pompeo announced an emergency to push through 8 1 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates citing Iranian activity in the Middle East This led to widespread Congressional opposition and eventually a probe by former State Department inspector general Steve Linick who was fired by the Trump administration on Pompeo s recommendation On August 10 2020 the US State Department reported that Pompeo took proper procedures in declaring the emergency However the statement issued by the department failed to fully assess the humanitarian impact of selling the weapons to the two Gulf countries which had been using American bombs to wage a devastating war in Yemen killing thousands of civilians 136 Republican National Convention speech On August 25 2020 Pompeo recorded a speech during an official diplomatic visit to Jerusalem 137 during the Republican National Convention in support of the incumbent and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Following the speech the House Foreign Affairs Committee s Oversight Subcommittee announced an investigation into whether the speech constituted a violation of the Hatch Act which restricts executive branch civil service employees from participating in certain forms of political activity 138 In response a spokesperson for the State Department said the department was not bearing any of the costs of the speech and that Pompeo was conducting the speech in his personal capacity the Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Joaquin Castro said the speech was highly unusual and likely unprecedented and it appears that it may also be illegal 138 On August 28 Eliot Engel Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee announced that the committee would be drafting a resolution holding Pompeo in contempt saying he has demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the constitution provides to prevent government corruption 139 It was confirmed on October 26 that the Office of the Special Counsel had launched a probe into Pompeo s speech 140 Afghanistan and the Taliban Pompeo with General Austin S Miller in Kabul on June 25 2019 Pompeo was involved in negotiations with the Taliban that set the stage for a U S departure from Afghanistan 141 In early 2020 Pompeo touted the Trump administration s agreement with the Taliban that put the U S on a trajectory to leave Afghanistan by May 2021 141 The deal required the Afghan government to release 5 000 imprisoned Taliban members By August 2020 the Afghan government released all but 400 of the prisoners as these prisoners had been accused of committing major crimes according to the Council on Foreign Relations Pompeo urged the Afghan government to release the remaining prisoners to remove the last obstacle to the start of intra Afghan negotiations Within three days the Afghan president agreed to the release which was completed the next month 142 143 Later the Joe Biden administration extended the withdrawal timeline to August 2021 and Pompeo expressed support for it 141 However after the U S had left Afghanistan the Ashraf Ghani government rapidly collapsed and the Taliban regained substantial territory Pompeo distanced himself and the Trump administration from the situation facing Afghanistan post withdrawal 141 144 145 146 Final days in office After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election and Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud Pompeo when asked whether there would be a smooth transition to the Biden administration responded on November 10 2020 There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration all right We re ready The world is watching what s taking place here We re gonna count all the votes When the process is complete they ll be electors selected 147 148 149 The day after a pro Trump mob stormed the U S Capitol to prevent the counting of the electoral votes thus formalizing the upcoming presidency of Biden the State Department told diplomats to affirm Biden s victory 150 On January 8 Pompeo met with Biden s incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken 151 While other Trump Cabinet members resigned or took a low profile after the attack on the Capitol in which Trump s role was debated Pompeo remained a vocal defender of Trump sending a Twitter message that promoted him as a potential Nobel Peace Prize nominee 152 He urged followers of the State Department s Twitter account to follow his personal account criticized the news media and complained about purported censorship of conservatives on social media websites 152 Pompeo departs the Department of State on January 20 2021 On January 12 2021 Pompeo cancelled a planned European trip when European diplomats declined to meet with him 153 Pompeo made a large number of foreign policy decisions in the last weeks of the Trump administration leading up the inauguration of Joe Biden including many likely to be reversed under Biden 152 Pompeo ordered the re designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism 152 154 and designating the Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization 152 The latter decision indirectly reduced humanitarian aid to Yemeni people and it was quickly reversed by the Biden administration 155 On January 19 2021 Pompeo announced that the Department of State had determined that genocide and crimes against humanity had been perpetrated by China against the Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang 156 157 The announcement was made on the last day of the presidency of Donald Trump 156 On January 20 2021 Pompeo along with other Trump administration officials were sanctioned by China These individuals and their immediate family members were banned from entering mainland China Hong Kong and Macao and have also been restricted from doing business with China either individually or through their companies and institutions 158 159 President Biden s National Security Council called the sanctions unproductive and cynical 160 Potential 2020 U S Senate bidMain article 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas Following an announcement that U S Senator Pat Roberts a four term Republican would not seek re election in 2020 161 there was speculation that Pompeo would run for U S Senate from Kansas 162 He still had almost one million dollars in his congressional campaign account as of June 2019 which could be used in a Senate bid 161 In March 2019 Pompeo said he had ruled out a 2020 Senate run although he implied an openness to seeking statewide office in the future 163 In July 2019 Pompeo appeared to re open the door to a Kansas Senate run telling a Kansas City radio station that he will always leave open the possibility that something will change Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell expressed a desire for Pompeo to enter the race 164 On July 29 Pompeo indicated that a 2020 Senate run was off the table 165 Nevertheless speculation continued to swirl in August 2019 regarding a potential Senate run The speculation was driven by concern that Kris Kobach who lost the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial race could become the GOP candidate for U S Senate if Pompeo does not run Specifically some Republicans feared Kobach would again tap a conservative base emerge from a crowded primary alienate moderate voters and lose an otherwise safe seat that Republicans likely need to maintain their narrow Senate majority Several other Republican candidates including state Senate President Susan Wagle Congressman Roger Marshall and former Trump Pompeo and Koch network staffer Alan Cobb the CEO and President of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce in 2019 166 said they would step aside if Pompeo entered the race 161 On October 29 2019 New Jersey Sen Bob Menendez filed a complaint about Pompeo s repeated trips to Kansas calling for review of whether Pompeo was engaging in political activity while traveling in an official capacity on taxpayer funds and thereby violating the Hatch Act of 1939 Menendez s complaint referenced a Wall Street Journal article saying that during his visit to Kansas Pompeo met with GOP donor Charles Koch to discuss the Kansas senate race 167 In an interview on November 22 2019 Trump discussed Pompeo s interest in running for Senate from Kansas Trump said that in their discussion Pompeo explained he would prefer to stay in his job as Secretary of State and would run only if it were necessary to keep a Republican seat in the Senate 168 Efforts to recruit him into the race continued through the June 1 filing deadline but he ultimately did not file 169 The general election was won by Republican U S Representative Roger Marshall 170 Political positionsForeign policy In 2013 Pompeo supported the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency referring to the agency s efforts as good and important work 171 In 2016 Pompeo stated Congress should pass a law re establishing collection of all metadata and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive searchable database Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed That includes Presidential Policy Directive 28 which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection 172 In March 2017 WikiLeaks began publishing a series of documents known as Vault 7 detailing the CIA s electronic surveillance and cyber warfare activities and capabilities In an April 2017 speech addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies Pompeo called WikiLeaks a non state hostile intelligence service and described Assange as a narcissist and a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen 173 174 In a 2013 speech on the House floor Pompeo said Muslim leaders who fail to denounce acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam are potentially complicit in the attacks 175 The Council on American Islamic Relations called on him to revise his remarks calling them false and irresponsible 176 In 2016 ACT for America gave Pompeo a national security eagle award for his comments on Islam 177 Pompeo has been a frequent guest on anti Muslim activist Frank Gaffney s radio show for the Center for Security Policy 177 As a congressman he cosponsored legislation to add the Muslim Brotherhood to the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations 178 179 Pompeo opposed closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp 180 After a 2013 visit to the prison he said of the prisoners who were on hunger strike It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight 181 He criticized the Obama administration s decision to end secret prisons and its requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti torture laws 182 In March 2014 he denounced the inclusion of a telecast by Edward Snowden at the South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas and asked that it be cancelled predicting it would encourage lawless behavior among attendees 183 In February 2016 Pompeo said Snowden should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence 184 But he has spoken in favor of reforming the Federal Records Act one of the laws under which Snowden was charged saying I m not sure there s a whole lot of change that needs to happen to the Espionage Act The Federal Records Act clearly needs updating to reflect the different ways information is communicated and stored Given the move in technology and communication methods I think it s probably due for an update 185 On July 21 2015 Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton alleged the existence of secret side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA on procedures for inspection and verification of Iran s nuclear activities under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Obama administration officials acknowledged the existence of agreements between Iran and the IAEA governing the inspection of sensitive military sites but denied that they were secret side deals calling them standard practice in crafting arms control pacts and saying the administration had provided information about them to Congress 186 In November 2015 Pompeo visited Israel and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a true partner of the American people 187 He supported Trump s 2017 decision to move America s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem 188 In 2017 Pompeo worked to undermine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran which had been negotiated by the Obama administration saying I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world s largest state sponsor of terrorism 189 He also said a better option than negotiating with Iran would be to use under 2 000 sorties to destroy the Iranian nuclear capacity This is not an insurmountable task for the coalition forces President Trump joined by Pompeo and Netanyahu behind signs the proclamation recognizing Israel s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights March 25 2019 In 2017 it was reported that Pompeo had expressed desire for regime change in North Korea 190 In July 2017 he said It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula to get those weapons off of that but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today 191 In September 2018 Pompeo backed continued U S military support for Saudi Arabia s war in Yemen over the objections of staff members after being warned that a cutoff could jeopardize 2 billion in weapons sales to America s Gulf allies according to a classified memo and people familiar with the decision 192 In November 2018 Pompeo blamed Iran for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen saying Iran causes death and destruction inside of Yemen and does nothing to prevent the starvation while Saudi Arabia has provided millions and millions of dollars of humanitarian relief for Yemen 193 While being interviewed on a podcast in 2023 Pompeo claimed that Israel has a biblical claim to the Palestinian territories and therefore the situation can not be defined as an occupation Pompeo made several explosive statements during the interview including called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a known terrorist 194 China Pompeo and Chinese Communist Party general secretary and Chinese president Xi Jinping During his tenure as Secretary of State Pompeo was an outspoken critic of China Pompeo suggested that Chinese investment in Israel would create issues between the U S and Israel and threatened to reduce security arrangements between the countries although he also claimed that he would have no problems with open and transparent investments 195 He accused the World Health Organization of being under control of the People s Republic of China and implicated China as being behind the significant number of deaths in the UK as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic 196 He praised the UK when they started to push back against the Chinese Communist Party and its General Secretary Xi Jinping especially with respect to Huawei 197 He also said he preferred a new coalition that did not need to go through established institutions that were set up by the United States such as the United Nations 198 He argued that China was a new tyranny and it was the duty of every leader of every nation to stand up to China 199 Pompeo has also argued that China s claims and activities in the South China Sea were illegal In addition he said the Chinese authorities were not allowed to take unilateral action in the area 200 This is despite the fact that many such as Walter A McDougall s Promised Land Crusader State 1997 John Lewis Gaddis s Surprise Security and the American Experience 2004 and Bradley F Podliska s Acting Alone 2010 believe it is in the United States own national interests to be allowed unilateral power 201 Michael Hirson at Eurasia Group argued that Pompeo was calling for regime change 202 He called on the Chinese people to betray their government and rise up to change the Chinese Communist Party 203 On July 23 2020 Pompeo during his Communist China and the Free World s Future speech announced the end of what he called blind engagement with the Chinese government He also criticized Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping 204 as a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology 205 The former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Daniel Russel argued that it would have the opposite effect in bolstering support in China for Xi Jinping and deepening anger towards the United States Michael Hirson noted that with the 2020 U S presidential election nearing it was unlikely Chinese policymakers would do anything to change their relationship 202 In September 2020 Pompeo accused the Chinese government of trying to foment racial unrest in the United States during an address to state lawmakers in Wisconsin 206 In October 2020 Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID 19 and Pompeo cancelled scheduled meetings with South Korea and Mongolia 207 However he still met with allies from Australia India and Japan despite there being a risk of infecting his key counterparts and accused the Chinese Communist Party of exploitation corruption and coercion 208 Taiwan Visiting Taipei in 2022 Pompeo said that the U S should recognize Republic of China Taiwan as an independent country 209 Russia During his confirmation hearing Pompeo said Russia has reasserted itself aggressively invading and occupying Ukraine threatening Europe and doing nearly nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS 210 In August 2018 Pompeo called Russia to immediately release jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov 211 In February 2022 right before Russia invaded Ukraine Pompeo gave an interview in which he praised Russian president Vladimir Putin Russian state television aired the interview Pompeo s comments reflected comments made by Trump after the invasion praising Putin 212 The same month during a speech at a Conservative Political Action Conference Pompeo called Putin a Dictator over the invasion though also stated that he has continues to believe that China is a greater national security threat to the United States then Russia 213 During a speech at the Hudson Institute in June 2022 Pompeo described the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a planned genocide that is designed to create a new Russian Empire similar to the Soviet Union with large amounts of energy reserves 214 Energy and environment Pompeo at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D C Speaking about climate change in 2013 Pompeo said There are scientists who think lots of different things about climate change There s some who think we re warming there s some who think we re cooling there s some who think that the last 16 years have shown a pretty stable climate environment 215 He has said Federal policy should be about the American family not worshipping a radical environmental agenda In 2009 Pompeo signed the No Climate Tax pledge of Americans for Prosperity 216 He called the Obama administration s environment and climate change plans damaging and radical In 2012 he called for the permanent elimination of wind power production tax credits calling them an enormous government handout 217 In 2015 Pompeo opposed the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the United States and supported eliminating the United States federal register of greenhouse gas emissions 218 As a member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce he voted for two resolutions disapproving of the Clean Power Plan implemented by the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration In May 2019 Pompeo acted against environmental protection at the Arctic Council He refused to sign on to a joint statement addressing the need for protection of the Arctic region from the threat of rapidly melting ice unless all mentions of climate change were removed from the document He said Climate change is actually good for the Arctic since melting ice caps are opening up new shipping routes and thus making it more economically viable to expand oil drilling in the region 219 220 He described the Paris climate accord along with the World Health Organisation and Human Rights Council as one of the three sins 198 Health care Pompeo opposed the Affordable Care Act ACA 221 Pompeo has been criticized for saying he supports funding for certain programs yet opposing them when they are a part of the ACA 222 He accused the World Health Organization of being under control of the People s Republic of China 196 The WHO responded by saying Pompeo s comments were unacceptable and a distraction from dealing with the coronavirus pandemic Dr Maria Van Kerkhove an American who was head of the WHO s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the time of the pandemic also expressed pride at the WHO for saving lives 223 It was argued that the attempt to blame the WHO was a way to draw attention away from the failings of the Trump administration 224 Social issues Congressman Pompeo at FreedomWorks New Fair Deal rally outside the U S Capitol April 2013 Pompeo has stated that life begins at conception and believes abortions should be allowed only when necessary to save the life of the mother with no exceptions for rape 225 In 2011 he voted for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act which would have banned federal health coverage that includes abortion On May 31 2011 he voted for H R 2059 11 HR2059 which eliminated funding for the United Nations Population Fund 226 He opposes same sex marriage and sponsored bills to let states prevent same sex couples from marrying 227 228 Pompeo was instrumental in the development of the anti abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration 229 Economy Pompeo supported the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 blaming President Obama He said he believed the shutdown was necessary to avoid an American financial collapse 10 years from now 230 International Criminal Court Mike Pompeo has continued a non cooperative policy towards the International Criminal Court in The Hague enacting sanctions against the ICC s chief prosecutor and other officials in September 2020 231 Some security experts have suggested Pompeo himself could potentially face charges under the ICC statutes for CIA activities in Afghanistan during his time as director of that agency 232 233 Post Trump administration Pompeo meeting with President of Taiwan Tsai Ing wen in Taipei March 2022 In January 2021 Pompeo joined the Hudson Institute as a distinguished fellow 234 On January 20 2021 following the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States China announced that it has imposed sanctions on Pompeo and 28 other Trump administration officials In a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China stated that it had decided to sanction those who have seriously violated China s sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such U S moves on China related issues The sanctions prohibit these individuals and their immediate family members from entering mainland China and special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao They are also restricted from doing business with China as are any companies or institutions associated with them In response the spokesperson of the United States National Security Council Emily Horne criticized the sanctions as an unproductive and cynical move 235 236 In August 2022 it emerged that Pompeo was the target of an assassination plot by Iran 237 In January 2023 HarperCollins published Pompeo s memoir of his tenure in the Trump Administration Never Give an Inch Fighting for the America I Love Pompeo considered a candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and toured early primary states but ultimately announced his decision not to run in April 2023 238 Personal life Mike Pompeo center with wife Susan and son Nicholas in 2018 Pompeo married Leslie Libert in 1986 12 The couple later divorced He then married Susan Justice Mostrous in 2000 and formally adopted her son Nicholas 239 240 Pompeo is affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church 241 242 Pompeo served as a local church deacon from 2007 to 2009 and taught Sunday school 243 In 2014 Pompeo told a church group that Christians needed to know that Jesus Christ as our savior is truly the only solution for our world 244 In 2015 in a talk at a church Pompeo said that politics is a never ending struggle until the Rapture 245 In an interview with Fox News in January 2022 Pompeo said he has lost over 90 lb 41 kg in the prior six months through self guided exercises and dietary changes Experts were skeptical of Pompeo s claim that such changes could have produced this weight loss in a man his age and The Guardian said that Pompeo s history of misleading statements cast further doubt on his claims 246 Foreign honorsMike Pompeo was awarded The Order of Brilliant Star with Special Grand 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the original on March 14 2017 Retrieved March 10 2017 subscription required Rosenberg Matthew April 13 2017 Mike Pompeo Once a WikiLeaks Fan Attacks It as Hostile Agent The New York Times Archived from the original on February 12 2020 Retrieved April 13 2019 Director Pompeo Delivers Remarks at CSIS CIA April 13 2017 Archived from the original on April 11 2019 Retrieved April 13 2019 Kasperowicz Pete June 11 2013 GOP lawmaker US Muslim leaders complicit in terrorist attacks The Hill Archived from the original on April 13 2014 Retrieved April 9 2014 GOP lawmaker US Muslim call Pompeo comments leaders false and irresponsible PDF Council on American Islamic Relations June 12 2013 Archived from the original PDF on April 16 2017 Retrieved April 9 2014 a b Goodstein Laurie April 7 2018 Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti Islam Groups The New York Times p A1 Archived from the original on April 8 2018 Retrieved April 8 2018 Blake Hounshell Toosi Nahal February 8 2017 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the original on February 1 2017 Retrieved November 18 2016 Takala Rudy June 20 2016 Hillary Clinton s tech failings could ripple through records rules Washington Examiner Archived from the original on July 27 2016 Retrieved January 23 2017 Fabian Jordan Wong Kristina July 26 2015 White House launches Iran side deals counterattack The Hill Archived from the original on August 12 2015 Retrieved August 10 2015 Tibon Amir November 30 2017 Mike Pompeo Has Hawkish History on Israel and Iran Haaretz Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved December 1 2017 The Trump whisperer The Economist March 16 2018 Archived from the original on March 15 2018 Retrieved March 16 2018 Parsi Trita Costello Ryan November 30 2017 Cotton Pompeo And Trump Are A Recipe For War With Iran HuffPost Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved December 1 2017 Watkins Eli July 21 2017 CIA chief signals desire for regime change in North Korea CNN Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved December 1 2017 Greenwood Max July 21 2017 CIA chief hopeful for change in North Korea The Hill Archived from the original on December 2 2017 Retrieved December 1 2017 Nissenbaum Dion September 20 2018 Top U S Diplomat Backed Continuing Support for Saudi War in Yemen Over Objections of Staff The Wall Street Journal Archived from the original on November 30 2018 Retrieved December 1 2018 Iranian foreign minister slams Pompeo over Yemen comments CNN November 9 2018 Archived from the original on November 14 2018 Retrieved May 21 2019 McGreal Chris February 16 2023 Pompeo says Israel has biblical claim to Palestine and is not an occupying nation The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved February 16 2023 Gehrke Joel Mike Pompeo says China is a threat to the US Israeli relationship Business Insider Retrieved July 26 2020 a b Sabbagh Dan Stewart Heather July 21 2020 Mike Pompeo attacks WHO in private meeting during UK visit The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved July 22 2020 Mueller Benjamin July 21 2020 Pompeo Praises Britain for Getting Tough on China The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on July 21 2020 Retrieved July 22 2020 a b Bourke Latika July 21 2020 We re going to need the Australians Pompeo lays out contest with China The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved July 22 2020 US arrests three Chinese nationals for visa fraud BBC News July 23 2020 Retrieved July 24 2020 Beijing s South China Sea project illegal says US BBC News July 14 2020 Retrieved July 24 2020 Podliska Bradley F Acting Alone A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use of Force Decision Making Lanham MD Lexington Books 2010 ISBN 978 0 7391 4251 6 a b Lee Yen Nee July 24 2020 Pompeo s speech slamming China will have the opposite effect says former U S diplomat CNBC Retrieved July 24 2020 Pompeo urges more assertive approach to Frankenstein China CNA Archived from the original on July 24 2020 Retrieved July 24 2020 Churchill Owen July 25 2020 US officials now call Xi Jinping general secretary instead of China s president but why South China Morning Post Retrieved July 25 2020 Re Gregg July 23 2020 Pompeo announces end of blind engagement with communist China Distrust but verify Fox News Retrieved July 23 2020 US sec of state accuses Beijing of stirring racial unrest Hong Kong Free Press September 24 2020 Retrieved July 6 2021 Ramzy Austin October 4 2020 Mike Pompeo cuts visits to South Korea and Mongolia from his Asia trip The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on October 5 2020 Retrieved October 8 2020 Pompeo lashes out at China at Quad meeting BBC News October 6 2020 Retrieved October 7 2020 United States should recognise free Taiwan Mike Pompeo says Al Jazeera March 4 2022 Retrieved September 22 2022 Trump s CIA Pick Russia Threatening Europe Failing To Destroy Islamic State Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Archived from the original on March 14 2018 Retrieved March 13 2018 Pompeo Calls On Russia To Free Hunger Striking Sentsov Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty August 23 2018 Archived from the original on February 18 2019 Retrieved February 17 2019 Graham David A Putin s Useful Idiots The Atlantic 24 February 2022 24 February 2022 Tidd Jason Mike Pompeo calls Vladimir Putin a dictator blames Biden for Ukraine war but China greater threat The Topeka Capital Journal Retrieved August 17 2022 Russia wants to control energy reserves of all former Soviet countries Mike Pompeo says POLITICO June 23 2022 Retrieved August 17 2022 Mike Pompeo on Washington Journal C SPAN June 25 2013 Archived from the original on August 21 2019 Retrieved June 2 2020 Pledge Takers NoClimateTax com Americans for Prosperity Archived from the original on December 23 2017 Retrieved November 3 2017 Pompeo Mike September 30 2012 Rep Mike Pompeo Wind tax credit harms economy The Wichita Eagle Archived from the original on April 13 2014 Retrieved April 9 2014 Lefler Dion December 3 2015 Kansas starts working toward clean air plan that Pompeo wants to kill The Wichita Eagle Archived from the original on March 16 2018 Retrieved November 18 2016 Levitz Eric May 28 2019 Trump Thwarts GOP Plot to Pretend His Climate Agenda Isn t Idiotic New York Intelligencer Archived from the original on June 2 2019 Retrieved June 3 2019 McKibben Bill May 8 2019 The U N Report on Extinction vs Mike Pompeo at the Arctic Council The New Yorker Archived from the original on May 8 2019 Retrieved May 8 2019 Pompeo Mike September 3 2013 The ObamaCare train wreck Column USA Today Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved September 5 2017 Fang Lee October 15 2013 GOP Congressman Explains Why He Wants to Defund a Health Program He Supports The Nation Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved November 30 2017 Macias Will Feuer Amanda July 23 2020 WHO slams unacceptable remarks by U S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo CNBC Retrieved July 24 2020 The Editorial Board Editorial Trump s WHO war is just an attempt to divert attention from his own failures STLtoday com Retrieved July 24 2020 Hegeman Roxana October 24 2012 Pompeo No rape exception in anti abortion view The Topeka Capital Journal Associated Press Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved November 30 2017 Prohibiting forced abortions by UN Population Fund Archived April 18 2020 at the Wayback Machine On the issues Retrieved October 6 2019 Tate Curtis January 13 2017 Pompeo tells Kamala Harris he won t discriminate against LGBT workers at the CIA The McClatchy Company Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved November 30 2017 Mike Pompeo still opposes gay marriage Now he s about to be secretary of state nbcnews com Archived from the original on April 16 2018 Retrieved April 16 2018 Southern Nathan Paul Kennedy Lindsey January 20 2021 Trump s Legacy Is a Global Alliance Against Women s Rights Foreign Policy Retrieved January 26 2021 Wilson Bill October 2 2013 Pompeo For the GOP shutdown is now about reforming entitlement programs The Wichita Eagle Archived from the original on April 8 2014 Retrieved March 5 2014 International Criminal Court officials sanctioned by U S BBC News September 3 2020 Haley S Anderson Randle De Falco Pompeo s Personal Stake in the International Criminal Court s Afghan Investigation justsecurity org June 3 2020 Haley S Anderson Why Them On the U S Sanctions Against Int l Criminal Court Officials justsecurity org September 2 2020 Axelrod Tal January 27 2021 Pompeo to join conservative think tank Hudson Institute The Hill Retrieved June 4 2022 China imposes sanctions on 28 Trump era officials including Mike Pompeo and Steve Bannon for interfering in China s internal affairs ABC News Australia January 21 2021 Retrieved August 3 2022 Biden Administration Criticizes China Sanctions on Former Trump Officials Voice of America January 21 2021 Retrieved August 3 2022 Mike Pompeo also a target in alleged Iranian assassination plot against John Bolton news yahoo com Mike Pompeo Says He Won t Run for President in 2024 The New York Times April 14 2023 Retrieved April 20 2023 McFarlan Miller Emily Winston Kimberly December 13 2016 Trump advisers The faith factor Religion News Service Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved November 30 2017 Graff Garrett October 24 2019 Pompeo Was Riding High Until the Ukraine Mess Exploded Wired Retrieved June 19 2021 Eastminster church decides to break from denomination kansas Archived from the original on March 14 2018 Retrieved March 13 2018 Burgess Katherine April 19 2018 Mike Pompeo s Wichita church calls for prayer over confirmation process The Wichita Eagle Archived from the original on April 22 2018 Retrieved April 22 2018 Jenkins Jack April 19 2018 5 faith facts about Mike Pompeo A divisive devotion Religion News Service Archived from the original on July 15 2019 Retrieved July 15 2019 Price Greg April 12 2018 Watch Mike Pompeo faces no more war protest during first confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Newsweek Archived from the original on April 27 2018 Retrieved April 27 2018 Goldberg Michelle January 12 2017 This Evil Is All Around Us Slate San Francisco California The Slate Group Archived from the original on April 27 2018 Retrieved April 27 2018 Mike Pompeo says he lost over 90lb but experts are skeptical about his fitness journey the Guardian January 11 2022 Retrieved August 15 2022 總統授勳美國第70屆國務卿龐培歐 表彰其長期促進臺美關係的貢獻 Office of the President March 3 2021 Retrieved March 3 2021 Yeh Joseph March 3 2022 President Tsai awards medal to Pompeo for enhancing Taiwan U S ties Central News Agency Retrieved March 3 2022 Republished as Tsai awards Pompeo special honor Taipei Times March 4 2021 Retrieved March 5 2022 Mike Pompeo merr titullin Honoris Causa nga Universiteti i Tiranes May 16 2022 External linksState Department archive SecPompeo Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mike Pompeo Wikiquote has quotations related to Mike Pompeo Wikisource has original works by or about Michael Richard Pompeo Secretary of State biography CIA Director Archived April 9 2019 at the Wayback Machine biography Mike Pompeo at CurlieBiography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote Smart Appearances on C SPAN Maplight Campaign Contributions Archived October 2 2015 at the Wayback MachineU S House of RepresentativesPreceded byTodd Tiahrt Member of the U S House of Representatives from Kansas s 4th congressional district2011 2017 Succeeded byRon EstesGovernment officesPreceded byJohn O Brennan Director of the Central Intelligence Agency2017 2018 Succeeded byGina HaspelPolitical officesPreceded byRex Tillerson United States Secretary of State2018 2021 Succeeded byAntony BlinkenU S order of precedence ceremonial Preceded byRex Tillersonas Former US Secretary of State Order of precedence of the United Statesas Former US 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