Smooth transition to 2nd Trump admin: Pompeo

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserted that there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration, indicating that he believes Donald Trump has won the November 3 presidential elections. ".

We are ready. The world is watching what's taking place here. We're going to count all the votes...," Pompeo said. Pompeo said that the world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is functional today, successful today, and successful with the president who's in office on January 20th a minute after noon will also be successful.

"I went through a transition on the front and I've been on the other side of this. I'm very confident that we will do all the things that are necessary to make sure that the government, the United States government will continue to perform its national security function as we go forward," he said.

Responding to questions if he believed there is widespread voter fraud, Pompeo said that he has been getting calls from all across the world. "These people are watching our election. They understand that we have a legal process.

They understand that this takes time, right? It took us 37 plus days in an election back in 2000. We conducted a successful transition then.