To be sure, Pompeo plays the game and says what conservatives want to hear when it's necessary, and his policies tend to run concurrent to his predecessors, but that's the issue; the old Neo-Con guard is a dinosaur that needs to go. Republican strategist Roger Stone issued a stark warning to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday: Trump should not trust the former cabinet member.
"Now that Trump is back on top, it becomes far more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff," Stone wrote on his website. Stone went on to single out Pompeo and Trump's former UN ambassador—and onetime 2024 Republican rival—Nikki Haley.