Trump: Meeting With Romney "Went Great"
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney met Saturday at the billionaire's golf club in New Jersey, both emerging with smiles and a public handshake but no word on what, if any, role the 2012 GOP hopeful might play in the new administration.
Trump flashed a thumbs-up said the sit down "went great." Romney said the two had a "far reaching conversation with regards to the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States of real significance."
The meeting alone was notable after the crackling rancor between the men all year.
Romney assailed Trump in a stinging speech in March, calling him a "con man" and a "phony." Trump responded by calling Romney a "loser" who "choked like a dog" during the 2012 election and let President Barack Obama win.
But the two have started to make amends since the election. Romney called Trump to congratulate him after his victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Romney was only one of a parade of officials pouring through Trump' door as the president-elect tries to fill more members of his administration. On Friday, Trump picked Alabama Sen. Jeff
Sessions for attorney general and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA, signaling a sharp rightward shift in U.S. security policy as he begins to form his Cabinet. Trump also named retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
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