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.