Mike Pompeo Tells Chicago Crowd He’s Prepping for 2024 Run-By Jack Phillips（附中文）

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a crowd in Illinois this week that he is preparing to run for president during the 2024 elections.

“We’ve got a team in Iowa, a team in New Hampshire and South Carolina. And that’s not random. We are doing the things one would do to get ready,” Pompeo told 1,100 people during a Chicago event on Tuesday, according to a Politico reporter.

“Unlike others, if I go down an escalator, no one will notice,” Pompeo joked, referring to former President Donald Trump’s announcement in 2015 that he was running.

The Epoch Times has contacted Pompeo’s Champion American Values PAC for comment.

“We are trying to figure out if that is the next place for us to serve,” he also said during the event. “If we conclude it is, we’ll go make the case to the American people of why that is. And in the end, the American people, I pray, will make a good decision about who’s going to be their next leader.”

Pompeo, a former secretary of state and director of the CIA under Trump, made the comments while speaking at the Navy SEAL Foundation Midwest Evening of Tribute on Tuesday evening.

It’s been no secret that Pompeo may be planning to run for president in 2024. In August, the former GOP congressman said he would run for the nation’s highest office “no matter who decides to get in,” including his former boss.

“We’re going to make our decision based on if we think this is the right place for us to serve,” Pompeo said at a Faith and Freedom barbeque in late August. “If I come to believe I ought to become president, that I have something to offer the American people, I will run no matter who all decides to get in and who else decides not to get in the race.”

Pompeo has not made an official announcement on whether he will run. Trump and other top Republican candidates similarly have not said whether they will run, although Trump has strongly hinted that he would in several public speaking engagements.

In a July interview with The Hill, Trump indicated that it’s not a question of whether he will run but rather a question of when he’ll make the announcement. That came weeks before the FBI raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, which Pompeo condemned last month.

“I would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after,” he said. “You understand what that means?”

Trump also indicated that the announcement would come around the 2022 midterm elections. “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision,” he said.

Jack Phillips：BREAKING NEWS REPORTER

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.

大紀元《蓬佩奧計劃2024年競選總統》-記者王祥編譯

川普（特朗普）政府時期的國務卿邁克‧蓬佩奧（Mike Pompeo）計劃在2024年競選總統。

蓬佩奧9月13日在芝加哥出席一場對海豹退伍軍人和支持者的慈善捐贈活動時透露，他正在為2024年可能的總統競選做好準備。這次活動籌集到630萬美元，共1,100名客人參加。

根據《政治客》的報導，蓬佩奧告訴與會者：“我們在愛荷華州有一個團隊，在新罕布什爾州和南卡羅來納州有一個團隊。這些並不是隨機的。我們正在做有備之士該做的事，以做好準備。”

“我們正試圖弄清楚這是否是我們下一個服務的地方”，他談到可能的競選時說。“如果我們得出結論，我們將向美國人民說明為什麼要這樣做。最後，我祈禱，美國人民將對誰將成為他們的下一任領導人做出一個好的決定。”

蓬佩奧是在與摩托羅拉解決方案公司首席執行官格雷格‧布朗（Greg Brown）進行問答時發表上述言論的。

在問答中，蓬佩奧對美國面臨的威脅回答說，美國最大的外部威脅是中國（中共），最大的內部威脅則是教師工會。

蓬佩奧還晾曬了他作為川普政府最高外交官的旅行記錄，任期內他到過一百多個國家。

盡管他的前老板尚未宣布自己參選，但人們普遍認為，川普也打算尋求第二個任期，現任總統拜登也準備競選連任。

蓬佩奧推出系列視頻 “中共不代表中國人”

蓬佩奧本周一直在參加公開露面活動，包括上了福克斯新聞節目，就佛州州長羅恩‧德桑蒂斯（Ron DeSantis）將非法移民送往北部庇護州和城市的計劃發表自己的看法。

此外，他從13日開始還推出系列跟中國人民直接對話的視頻，並將陸續在YouTube等社交媒體放出。

第一集視頻主題為“中國共產黨不代表中國人民”，將近3分鐘。蓬佩奧在視頻中說，“我們制作這些視頻的目的很簡單：那就是直接與中國人民談論中美關系，這就是我們將在接下來的幾個月裏要做的事情……我們這樣做是有原因的，因為中共是一個一黨專政的政治組織，它是一個舶來品，並且致力於一個與中國人民為敵的意識形態。”

蓬佩奧擔任美國智庫哈德遜研究所（Hudson Institute）“中國中心”的咨詢委員會主席。

“中國中心”主任、前國務院中國政策規劃首席顧問余茂春表示，蓬佩奧的系列視頻會通過推特、微信群在華語圈發酵。

他說，蓬佩奧選擇此時推出系列視頻影片與中共即將迎接二十大無關，因為中共壓迫人民的行為已持續了幾十年，無論是哪個共產黨人在位。