President-elect Donald Trump met Monday with retired Army
Gen. David Petraeus, a possible alternative choice for secretary of state amid
an escalating feud over the position between supporters of former New York
mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who
will sit down with Trump on Tuesday.
As
Trump’s senior advisers battled over who should fill what is considered the
most prestigious Cabinet post, the president-elect will hold a second session
with Romney along with another possible option, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.),
aides said Monday. Corker, who will visit Manhattan’s Trump Tower on Tuesday,
chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and had suggested publicly that
he was unlikely to be chosen.
But Trump is reportedly considering alternatives for the State Department as an
extraordinary feud has broken out between those supporting Romney, a former
Massachusetts governor considered the quintessential establishment Republican,
and Giuliani, a fierce Trump backer seen by some as deserving the secretary of
state post out of sheer loyalty. Romney attacked Trump in unusually harsh and
personal terms during the presidential campaign.The fight hit a fever pitch over Thanksgiving weekend as Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager and now senior adviser to the transition team, took to the airwaves to attack Romney’s credentials to be the nation’s top diplomat. Conway is part of a cadre of Trump confidants who are waging an
unusual
public battle against Romney to influence the president-elect’s
decision.
Culled From
Washington Post
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