WSJ: Carlson Killed Pompeo’s Chances For DefSec Post

The Daily Beast reports:

James Carville might be onto something. Two weeks after the Democratic strategist suggested Tucker Carlson was behind Trump’s wild-card Cabinet nominees, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Carlson was indeed the one who killed Mike Pompeo’s chances in the new administration. Trump insiders originally believed Pompeo, who served as secretary of state during Trump’s first term, was at the top of his former boss’s list to lead the Department of Defense.

Carlson argued Pompeo was a warmonger and claimed—without providing any evidence—that he had plotted to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Pompeo denied the story in October. Perhaps more importantly for Trump, Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. also argued Pompeo had failed to prove his loyalty to Trump by calling the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol “unacceptable” and refusing to say Joe Biden stole the 2020 election, the Journal reported.

Read the full article. Gift link to the original report below.

Gift link: WSJ’s @vmsalama on how Tucker Carlson killed Mike Pompeo’s nomination to be SECDEF. For starters, Carlson accused Pompeo of plotting to assassinate Julian Assange w/o evidence… https://t.co/73GTjVN4eb

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