Mattathias Schwartz: It's Trump's world and his putative heirs have to live in the shadow of his delusions

Pompeo is only ready to meet reality half way, writes Mattathias Schwartz

Outgoing US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, a potential future Republican presidential candidate, carefully avoids contradicting Donald Trump’s baseless claims that he was cheated of the presidency. Picture: Patrick Semansky/AP

In February of last year, while interviewing the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, I asked him about what happened the previous summer during the Nato summit in Brussels. 

It was widely reported that Donald Trump threw a fit at the July 12 session, berating German chancellor Angela Merkel about the United States paying more than its fair share.