Pompeo: 'There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration'

Mike Pompeo by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo implied that President Trump won the 2020 presidential election, despite the accumulating vote tallies that underpin a growing consensus that Joe Biden is the president-elect.

“There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo told reporters Tuesday at the State Department.

That statement was offered in response to a question about whether the State Department is “currently preparing to engage with the Biden transition team.”

Pompeo’s subsequent comments were somewhat open-ended, though he remained agnostic about the outcome of the lawsuits and the certification of the votes.

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