Pompeo Rakes Trump’s “Fragile Ego” In CPAC Speech

The Independent reports:

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday laid into Donald Trump for his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election in remarks to a half-full ballroom at CPAC. At one point, he said the GOP “cannot become the left, following celebrity leaders with their own brand of identify politics.”

He also appeared to more directly rebuke Mr Trump’s stolen election lies by exhorting the crowd against following leaders who “cannot accept reality.” His remark drew no reaction from a crowd that had heard multiple Trumpworld figures repeat the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

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