Trump: Pompeo ‘may be right’ in casting doubt on Middle East plan

US President Donald Trump said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “may be right” in casting doubt on the administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan.

“Look, we’re doing our best to help the Middle East to get a peace plan, and he [Pompeo] may be right. I mean, most people would say that,” The Hill quoted Trump as having said in a press conference Sunday evening.

“But if we can get a Mid-East peace plan that would be good. And when Mike says that, I understand when he says that, because most people think it can’t be done. I think it probably can. But as I say often, we’ll see what happens.”

Earlier Sunday The Washington Post reported that during a closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders Pompeo said “one might argue” that the plan is “unexecutable” and it might not “gain traction.”

It may be rejected. Could be in the end, folks will say, ‘It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t particularly work for me,’ that is, ‘It’s got two good things and nine bad things, I’m out,” Pompeo said in an audio recording of the private meeting obtained by the Post.

The big question is can we get enough space that we can have a real conversation about how to build this out, he said.