EIGHT years ago Mike Pompeo was a 47-year-old greenhorn congressional candidate in Wichita, Kansas, with a modest business career and unremarkable limited-government views. He was best known for being the biggest recipient of campaign donations from Wichita’s largest private-sector employer, Koch Industries. No one, save possibly that company’s conservative mega-donor owners, marked him out for greatness. Yet with the Senate’s blessing, which is likely to be forthcoming, Mr Pompeo will shortly be the first person to have occupied the offices of both CIA director and secretary of state.
His rise is yet another illustration of how Donald Trump has turned the old order on its head. Because the president knew few Republican policy experts at the time of his election, and was despised by most of them, he turned to soldiers, businessmen and politicians to fill his senior positions. Gratifyingly for Mr Trump, who has a mixed view of politicians and admires real-world achievement, Mr Pompeo, one of four...Continue reading
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