US President-elect Donald Trump has met one of his fiercest critics, Mitt Romney, with reports suggesting he may be considered for secretary of state.

Neither man gave details of their 80-minute meeting on Saturday. Romney said the talks had been “far-reaching”.

During the campaign, Romney called Trump a “fraud”, while Trump said Romney’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012 had been “the worst ever”.

Trump has settled several posts so far, a number of them controversial.

The nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was rejected from becoming a federal judge in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks.

Lt Gen Michael Flynn, the new national security adviser, has drawn concern over his strident views on Islam.

On leaving Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, Romney did not answer questions on whether he would accept a cabinet position, or whether he still thought his host was “a con artist”.

He said only that they had held a “far-reaching conversation with regards to the various theaters of the world” in which the US had an interest.

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