US president-elect, Donald Trump, and the 2012 Republican
presidential nominee Mitt Romney have set aside a bitter rivalry and held talks
likely to feed speculation that Romney could be in line to be the next US
secretary of state.
Trump and Romney emerged from their meeting after an hour and 20
minutes, and Trump told reporters the talks "went great".
Romney said the pair "had a far-reaching conversation with
regards to the various theaters in the world".
"We discussed those areas and exchanged our views on
those topics - a very thorough and in-depth discussion in the time we
had," Romney said.
"And I appreciate the chance to speak with the
president-elect and I look forward to the coming administration and the things
that it's going to be doing."
Romney, who was a leader of the establishment Republican
"Never Trump" movement that tried to block the tycoon from becoming
the nominee, was first in a long list of people Trump was meeting with on
Saturday and Sunday as he sought to fill out his cabinet and gather advice
ahead of his January 20 move to the White House.
In March, Romney said Trump would be dangerous as president, with
policies that could touch off a recession.
Romney also said: "I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign
policy he is very, very not smart."
If given a job, Romney, a more mainstream Republican, would serve
alongside more hawkish Trump appointees named on Friday: Senator Jeff Sessions
of Alabama as attorney general, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as
national security adviser and Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director.
Analysts say that Trump has been considering former New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser, for secretary of state, as well as former US
ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Source: Aljazeera
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