“We are ready. The world is watching what is happening here, “Pompeo said. “We are counting all the votes. When the process is complete, voters will be selected there. There is a process. The constitution clearly shows it. “
To the international community, “everyone must have faith that the transition needed to ensure that the state government is in operation today, is successful today, and that the president who takes office one minute later on January 20 will succeed,” Pompeo said in his inaugural address. Said referring to the date that will come.
Pompeo, who served as CIA director at the beginning of the Trump administration, also noted that he had gone through a “transition from the front end” after the 2016 election. “It simply came to our notice then. I am very confident that we will do all that we can to ensure that the government continues to do its national security work, “he said.
News broke that a number of world leaders had reached out to Biden to contact him as soon as a top US diplomat decided to deny Trump’s election defeat. Both the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom retweeted that they were talking on the phone with the President-elect. He was also reportedly summoned by French President Emmanuel Moron Crone and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Pompeo said Tuesday that he received “calls from all over the world” about the US election, and that foreign observers understand that we have a legal process and “understand that this takes time.” But he declined to say explicitly whether he supported baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud leveled by the Trump campaign.
“I’m very confident we’ll count – and we must count every legal vote,” Pompeo said, expressing anger when asked if Trump’s refusal to accept the state’s proud state and state government elections.
“It’s ridiculous,” he told a reporter. “And you know it’s ridiculous. And you asked that because it’s ridiculous. “
