Mitt Romney will meet with Donald Trump Saturday
President-elect Donald Trump will meet with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney on Saturday, CBS News has confirmed.
A source involved in the transition described the meeting as one to “seek counsel.” Mr. Trump and Romney will also discuss potential cabinet positions, two sources confirmed to CBS News.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was highly critical of Mr. Trump throughout the campaign, at one point giving a speech in which he called the GOP businessman “a phony, a fraud.”
“His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University,” Romney said in that speech, back in March. “He’s playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.”
Trump, too, went after Romney on multiple occasions throughout the Republican primary season, saying he “choked like a dog” during his 2012 presidential bid.
That said, relations between the two GOP pols seem to have thawed in the wake of Trump’s election to the White House: Romney called to congratulate Trump that night, and tweeted the next day his “best wishes” to the president-elect.
Trump endorsed Romney during the 2012 Republican primary, giving a speech and a press conference at his Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.