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Pompeo scraps Europe trip after EU leader calls Trump 'political pyromaniac'
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Pompeo scraps Europe trip after EU leader calls Trump 'political pyromaniac'
Secretary of state cancels trip after European officials publicly criticized Trump’s role in last week’s storming of the Capitol
Julian Borger and agencies
Tue 12 Jan 2021 20.55 GMT
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cancelled a trip to Europe at the last minute after European officials were publicly critical of Donald Trump’s role in last week’s storming of the Capitol.
The official reason for the cancellation of the trip, originally to Brussels and Luxembourg, was the need to coordinate with a transition team from the incoming Biden administration, but it comes after the unprecedented attack on American democracy that stunned many world leaders and US allies.
The Luxembourg leg of the trip was called off on Monday after its foreign minister Jean Asselborn called Trump “criminal” for inciting the attack.
Asselborn described the outgoing US president to RTL radio as a “political pyromaniac who must be brought before a court”.
Reuters and Fox News both quoted diplomatic sources as saying it was Luxembourg that had called off the meeting, a devastating snub from a tiny country for a secretary of state that continually claims to have restored “swagger” to the state department.
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Secretary of state cancels trip after European officials publicly criticized Trump’s role in last week’s storming of the Capitol
Julian Borger and agencies
Tue 12 Jan 2021 20.55 GMT
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cancelled a trip to Europe at the last minute after European officials were publicly critical of Donald Trump’s role in last week’s storming of the Capitol.
The official reason for the cancellation of the trip, originally to Brussels and Luxembourg, was the need to coordinate with a transition team from the incoming Biden administration, but it comes after the unprecedented attack on American democracy that stunned many world leaders and US allies.
The Luxembourg leg of the trip was called off on Monday after its foreign minister Jean Asselborn called Trump “criminal” for inciting the attack.
Asselborn described the outgoing US president to RTL radio as a “political pyromaniac who must be brought before a court”.
Reuters and Fox News both quoted diplomatic sources as saying it was Luxembourg that had called off the meeting, a devastating snub from a tiny country for a secretary of state that continually claims to have restored “swagger” to the state department.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/12/mike-pompeo-cancels-trip-european-condemnation-capitol-attack
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