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A brace of social-media posts by Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway may point to an urgent sense among some Trump allies that Mitt Romney is not the man for the secretary of state job, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
From WSJ.com: Trump allies raise doubts about Mitt Romney leading State Department
The competition for arguably the most prestigious post in the Trump cabinet appeared to have come down to Romney vs. former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, even as some Trump backers reportedly continued to push for consideration of additional candidates.
Giuliani was a loyal Trump surrogate in the final months of the presidential race, while Romney, the Republican Party nominee for president four years ago, was among Trump’s harshest intraparty critics.
The Conway tweets that are being read Thursday as tea leaves as to the inside circle’s current thinking on the Foggy Bottom job, in one case passing along a link to a Politico story in which big-name Trump backers are quoted as questioning the motivations of a Secretary of State Romney and in the other citing Henry Kissinger and (presumably, spelling notwithstanding) George Shultz as models of presidential loyalty during their tenures at State under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, respectively:
Receiving deluge of social media & private comms re: Romney Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state https://t.co/HDtpjeJTc3
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 24, 2016
Kissinger & Schultz as Secs of State flew around the world less, counseled POTUS close to home more. And were loyal. Good checklist.
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 24, 2016
