TRUMP- ROMNEY CHAT ‘ FAR- REACHING’

President- elect, key GOP critic aim to bury hatchet; no hint yet of job offer

Mitt Romney, who for months told the American public Donald Trump was unfit for the White House, spent more than an hour Saturday talking to the president- elect on global affairs.

Romney talked to Trump and Vice President- elect Mike Pence at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N. J.

It was “a far- reaching conversation with regards to the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States of real significance,” Romney said. “We discussed those areas and exchanged our views on those topics. ( It was) a very thorough and indepth discussion in the time we had, and I appreciated the chance to speak with the president- elect and look forward to the coming administration.”

As Romney approached reporters, Trump cupped his hands around his mouth and said “it went great,” according to a pool report.

There was no confirmation or suggestion of a job offer despite reports of Romney’s interest in the secretary of State post. Analysts doubt Trump would offer a job in his administration or that Romney would accept it given the verbal jabs they exchanged on the trail.

During the campaign, Romney called Trump a “phony ... a fraud ... ( and) a con man,” among other pointed criticisms. Trump responded that Romney was “irrelevant ( and) a choke artist.”

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said it “doesn’t make any sense” to give someone who was such a vocal critic a Cabinet post. “To give a guy a job who basically said all his supporters were following a con man, I just think that would be an insult to the voters,” Huckabee told Fox News.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are expected to meet with Trump on Sunday.