Uniting Trumpers, never Trumpers and Democrats with a new deputy at the State Department
WASHINGTON — When Stephen E. Biegun was sworn in as deputy secretary of state, it was in front of an unusual crowd at the State Department — one that included loyalists to President Donald Trump, but also a mix of Never Trumpers and Democrats.
It helps, friends say, that Biegun has the even temperament of a man who thrives in the background. Never one to upstage the boss, be it the president or secretary of state, Biegun is mild-mannered and deferential, the anti-Pompeo. “So if there is that vacuum or deficit of trust, which I think there is, Steve is well placed to fill it,” said Beyrle, who worked with Biegun on the board of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship and education with Moscow.
Biegun also declined to join the so-called Never Trumper movement in 2016, putting him among a relatively small number of Republicans with high-level foreign policy experience who were not blacklisted by the White House after Trump won the presidential election. He traveled to Russia as a vice president at Ford, negotiating new business ventures, but also took time off to briefly advise Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008. That position, according to colleagues, revealed his ability to maintain patience under pressure and to avoid a condescending tone — even when having to explain the most basic foreign policy axioms to his boss.
“This idea that they can be coaxed into giving up” their nuclear program “was flawed from the start,” Bolton said on Monday in remarks at Duke University.
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