Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken on Friday, his team announced.
“Their meeting was very productive,” a senior State Department official said in a message to reporters. “Secretary Pompeo and Secretary-nominee Blinken, as well as their teams, will continue to work together on behalf of America throughout the transition.”
Pompeo and Blinken discussed how to “facilitate an orderly transition, and to ensure American interests are protected abroad.” Their meeting is the latest display of the Trump administration’s shift to emphasize Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential elections following the storming of the Capitol by President Trump’s supporters.
“In a banana republic, mob violence determines the exercise of power,” Pompeo tweeted Thursday. “In the United States, law enforcement officials quash mob violence so that the people’s representatives can exercise power in accordance with the rule of law and constitutional government. Congress’s completing its certification of electors — with our law enforcement heroes having restored order in the Capitol — at 3:40 AM today shows the strength of American political institutions and represents a victory for the rule of law & constitutional government in America.”
In the wake of yesterday’s reprehensible attack on the U.S. Capitol, many prominent people – including journalists and politicians – have likened the United States to a banana republic. The slander reveals a faulty understanding of banana republics and of democracy in America.
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) January 8, 2021
