Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teases he will back Trump and slams successor Antony Blinken for carrying out Biden’s ‘catastrophic’ policies

President Donald Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teased an impending endorsement from his former boss in the 2024 presidential race during an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.

When asked if he plans to publicly support Trump in the race, Pompeo said he will support “whoever the Republican nominee is.”

“The calculations suggest this will be President Trump, and it will probably become even clearer relatively soon,” he said.

Pompeo and Trump had a close relationship during his presidency, and he largely avoided the scrutiny and public scrutiny that other Cabinet secretaries faced.

Trump will face off against the last two viable Republican candidates in the primaries – Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis – in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. He is polling at 52 percent, compared to Haley at 35 percent and DeSantis at 6 percent, according to new figures published Friday by the Boston Globe.

“I will do everything in my power to ensure that President Biden does not get another four years,” he added to DailyMail.com.

Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan caused a ‘catastrophic incident,’ Pompeo added

Pompeo’s disdain for the current administration’s foreign policy stems from their “fundamentally different” view of the world, he said.

“Secretary Blinken is doing the things that President Biden directs,” Pompeo said of his successor.

He said this started when the White House “flipped the script” on Iran, releasing $6 billion that has helped them build up their resources. And by initially considering the Russian attack on Ukraine as a ‘small invasion’.

The decision to withdraw troops from Bagram air base in Afghanistan also caused a “catastrophic incident”, he added.

“And the administration tried to put a different spin on it,” Pompeo said.

Biden has faced criticism for declaring the withdrawal from Afghanistan a “success” in August 2021, despite the loss of 13 U.S. service members and hundreds of Afghan partners in a suicide attack.

“These are the policies that President Biden has led. And so those who serve alongside him should try to give him options. But in the end, the presidents choose, and those of us who worked for them do our best to execute them.”

Pompeo then reiterated the dire warning issued by FBI Director Chris Wray late last year.

“The reality is that the threat of terrorism has increased in 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has taken the threat of an attack on Americans in the United States to a whole other level,” Wray told lawmakers.

The former foreign minister said the results of Biden’s policies can be seen in the destruction of Kiev by the Russians and the kibbutz in southern Israel destroyed by Hamas terrorists.

He also warned about “bad actors” using the U.S.’s “porous” southern border “to make this a very bad day here in the United States as well.”

Pompeo told DailyMail.com that border security measures are needed immediately.

“I am deeply concerned about the national security implications at the southern border,” he said.

His comments came as President Biden met with congressional leaders at the White House to try to reach an agreement on immigration reform.

Pompeo will speak at the Steamboat Institute’s Foreign Policy Summit this weekend.

Previewing his speech to DailyMail.com, he said he will discuss some of the key foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration and how they can be resolved.

“This can all be solved,” he said of the ongoing challenges facing the country. “We just have to have the courage as Americans to do that, and I’m confident we will.”

During an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com on Wednesday, Pompeo blasted the Biden administration for deciding only yesterday to re-designate the Iran-backed Houthis as a terrorist group, three years after removing the label.

Houthi fighters and tribal supporters raise their firearms to protest US-led airstrikes

Pompeo also told DailyMail.com that Biden’s softness towards Iran will “come back to haunt” the US after Navy SEALs and US warships were placed in the line of fire by Iran-backed Houthis militants.

During the exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Pompeo slammed the Biden administration for only deciding this week to re-designate the Iran-backed Houthis as a terrorist group, three years after removing the label.

He called it an “unwillingness” by the government to “accept simple truths” as it is a “fundamental fact” that the Houthis are terrorists.

Former President Donald Trump had previously listed Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). But Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed them from the list in 2021 to make it easier to get humanitarian aid to Yemen.