Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What ever happened with the Romney pow-wow?

I haven't heard a peep. Anyone?

Trump just wanted to get Romney's hopes up, then Trump told him to GTFO and called him a LOSER.!

They both said it was a productive chat - and neither one said what they talked about.

ol romney w/ his articulation could be a productive employee of Trump. Trump would issue the orders and romney, understanding the orders, would move to implement them on the world stage.

it'd be a class act, Trump depending on romney to implement his vision.

"I'm sorry if the door hit your ass on the way out", is what Trump is shouting after their meeting. No way will the that POS be a cabinet member.

maybe not. but, he might be willing to recant, for the good of the cause? i guess time will tell?

Mitt Romney Leads Donald Trump’s Picks for Secretary of State

President-elect leans toward the former governor but advisers’ tug of war delays decision


President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J., on
Saturday. PHOTO: CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

WALL STREET JOURNAL
By MICHAEL C. BENDER and DAMIAN PALETTA
Nov. 22, 2016 4:30 p.m. ET

President-elect Donald Trump is leaning toward asking former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to be his secretary of state,
according to people familiar with the deliberations.

The next U.S. president is also likely to name retired Marine Gen.
James Mattis to serve as secretary of defense in his
administration, and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is the leading
candidate to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, the
people said.

Delaying Mr. Trump’s decision about secretary of state is an
internal tug of war between supporters of Mr. Romney, and those
urging the selection of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. A
third group is pressing the president-elect to keep searching for
candidates.

The New York businessman views Mr. Romney as the prototypical choice
to be the nation’s top diplomat, and a group of advisers inside the
transition are pushing him to select the 2012 Republican
presidential nominee. Two people said Mr. Trump is inclined to
select Mr. Romney.

A Michigan native, Mr. Romney was the son of prominent auto
executive and later Michigan Gov. George Romney. Before turning to
politics, Mr. Romney founded Bain Capital, a private-equity firm,
and rescued the financially troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City, during which he interacted with an array of world
leaders. He was elected governor of Massachusetts that same year.

Messrs. Trump and Romney were very critical of each other during the
2016 campaign, but both men appear to be ready to put that behind
them. Vice President-elect Mike Pence greeted Mr. Romney personally
outside the Bedminster, N.J., golf club where Mr. Trump was
interviewing prospective appointees over the weekend. On Sunday,
Mr. Pence said the session between Mr. Trump and Mr. Romney was “a
very substantive meeting.”

But another faction is still pushing for Mr. Giuliani, who was one
of Mr. Trump’s earliest supporters and has openly campaigned for
the job. Mr. Giuliani, after leaving the mayor’s office, created a
security consulting firm that has contracts with some foreign
governments, including Qatar and Colombia.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaking to reporters after
meeting with Mr. Trump on Monday, said “there are huge advantages
to Rudy Giuliani frankly, I think that, if you want someone who is
going to go out and be a very tough negotiator for America and
represent American interest in the way that Trump campaigned, I
think that probably Rudy is a better pick and has the right
temperament.”

A spokeswoman for Mr. Romney didn’t return messages seeking comment.
Jason Miller, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, said “absolutely no
decision has been made” on secretary of state.

Ms. Haley would be the first woman—and first minority—to join Mr.
Trump’s administration.

“It was a good meeting. We talked about a multiple group of topics
and it was nice meeting,” Ms. Haley told reporters.

Rob Godfrey, her deputy chief of staff, said Ms. Haley “is very
encouraged about the coming administration and the new direction it
will bring to Washington.”

While Mr. Trump’s initial picks for his next administration have
focused exclusively on loyalists, Ms. Haley—like Mr. Romney—was a
vocal opponent of the incoming president during the Republican
primary.

She implicitly criticized his candidacy during her Republican
response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech and,
ahead of the South Carolina primary, said Mr. Trump was “everything
a governor doesn’t want in a president.”

After he won the nomination, she said she would back him in the
November election against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Ms. Haley met
with Mr. Trump on Thursday in New York and told reporters on Monday
in South Carolina that “when the president-elect calls and asks for
a meeting, I would absolutely not turn that down.”

Ms. Haley, 44, is the second Asian-American of Indian descent to
serve as governor in the U.S. Before winning her first election in
2004 to the South Carolina Statehouse, she worked at FCR Corp., a
North Carolina waste management and recycling company, and later
joined Exotica International, her family’s clothing business.

As twice-elected governor, she has led trade missions to countries
including India, Sweden and Germany.

The clearest consensus inside the transition team is for Gen.
Mattis, a former war commander who has long voiced concerns about
the security threat posed by Iran. He met with Mr. Trump on
Saturday.

“He is the real deal,” Mr. Trump told reporters about Mr. Mattis
after the meeting. “He is just a brilliant, wonderful man. What a
career.”

Gen. Mattis, who retired after 43 years in the Marines and who rose
to command all U.S. forces in the Middle East, would bring to the
job a view of the international fight against extremism markedly
different from that of the Obama administration. He has said the
U.S. should pledge to put combat forces into the fight if necessary
to defeat militants.

Write to Michael C. Bender at Mike.Benderwsj.com and Damian Paletta at damian.palettawsj.com

Bolton for state.
Romney for commerce.