Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Trump

Susan Glasser: “Pompeo, an evangelical Christian who keeps an open Bible on his desk, now says it’s possible that God raised up Trump as a modern Queen Esther, the Biblical figure who convinced the King of Persia to spare the Jewish people. He defines his own job as serving the President, whatever the President asks of him… No matter what Trump has said or done, Pompeo has stood by him.”

Said one former senior White House official: “There will never be any daylight publicly between him and Trump.”

Said a former American ambassador: “He’s like a heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass.”

“Pompeo’s transformation reflects the larger story of how the Republican Party went from disdaining Trump to embracing him with barely a murmur of dissent.”