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Trump tempers optimism on Middle East peace plan
By MATTHEW CHOI 06/02/2019 09:20 PM EDT
President Donald Trump said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "may be right" in his raw assessment of the administration's Middle East peace plan.
Speaking to reporters Sunday, Trump responded to a Washington Post report that Pompeo had described the administration's plan for lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians arguably "unexecutable." Pompeo also said that the plan — which is being devised by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former Trump lawyer Jason Greenblatt — "may be rejected" and that critics would call it "not particularly original," the Post reported based on a recording of Pompeo's comments.
Trump, who previously called the plan the "deal of the century," conceded that "he may be right."
"We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters before leaving for a state visit to the United Kingdom. "We're doing our best to help the Middle East."
Pompeo made his remarks during an off-the-record Tuesday meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. According to the Post, Pompeo demonstrated a drastic change in tone when talking about the deal, admitting that it "has taken us longer to roll out our plan than I had originally thought it might — to put it lightly," and that there are "no guarantees that we’re the ones that unlock it."
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/02/trump-pompeo-middle-east-peace-plan-1351099
