Pompeo was hanging out in Urban’s box at the Army-Navy football game with the president-elect. His stated rationale for joining the administration was similar to that of many Republicans: Trump had won, and besides, the Democrats were the real enemy. “He just made his political peace with reality—this is our president,” one of his friends said.[17] A few months earlier, he had warned that Trump would be an “authoritarian president”; now he told colleagues that he would quit Congress in order to “right the wrongs” of the Obama years.[18] He also deleted his entire congressional Twitter feed,
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