No Administration in US history, has had more turnover of top people than the Trump Residency, leading to an ever increasing level of incompetence due to chaos. Now, Trump has fired Putin’s choice for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and nominated Mike Pompeo, former CIA Director, Teabagger Representative from KS, and Kris Kobitch supporter, to fill the post.
President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ousted Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and will replace him with Mike Pompeo, now the C.I.A. director, ending the 14-month tenure of the nation’s chief diplomat who repeatedly had found himself at odds with the White House on a variety of key foreign policy issues.
“We were not really thinking the same,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House, explaining his decision to replace Mr. Tillerson.
He added: “Really, it was a different mind-set, a different thinking.”
Mr. Tillerson found out he had been fired before dawn, shortly after his flight returned from a weeklong trip to Africa, said Steve Goldstein, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy…
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Here’s a report from CNN.
I understand that Tillerson was asked to resign, refused, and was fired by tweet from Twit.
I think everything possible should be done to delay Pompeo’s confirmation. First, he is a sycophant. Tillerson would stand up to Trumps worst impulses until the urge had past. Pompeo will likely feed them. Worse yet, Pompeo is a warmonger. To make matters worse, Pompeo’s replacement at the CIA is Gina Haspel, a torture-maven who ran a secret CIA site in Thailand, where she tortured prisoners. Then she tried to cover it up by destroying the records of her war crimes. We must fight her appointment too.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Not good. At. All. it’s a cluster for sure!!
As you pointed out, Tillerson was Putin’s choice. So if there was any reason to fire him other than that he backed up Theresa May on “Putin poisoned Sergey and his daughter” – well, sure, there could have been any number of reasons, but you KNOW that’s why Putin gave permission! Pompeo is a dominionist, and Gina Haskel is a torturer. The only reason she is a deputy in the CIA is that “Deputy” did not require Senate confirmation. Even so, Democrats on the Senate Intelligencr Committee (including your Ron Wyden) called her out at the time! I hope they will continue to stand up against her – and against him too! (The fun one is going to be NASA, I suspect.
On NASA, see today’s lead article.
Tillerson’s sacking had been in the air for weeks, as the almost immediate response of media around the world showed. It was much like having the obituary finished ahead of time when someone famous takes ill, the British, Dutch and Australian major news media posted very similar ‘obituaries’ with just Drumpf’s Tweet added, and all remarking that Tillerson had gone against the White House by directly blaming Russia for the attempted murder of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in London. Any Russian involvement in Tillerson’s firing was then left to the discretion of the readers, of course.
Let’s be honest, Tillerson isn’t a diplomat and a terrible choice for a Secretary of State, but he did better than I had expected him to do, mainly because he dared to voice a different, more reasonable, opinion from Drumpf’s. And ‘reasonable’ globalist Tillerson has more diplomatic feeling in his pinky than hawk America-über-Alles Pompeo, so with the latter behind desperately-looking-for-a-fight Drumpf, some country has it coming very soon. I leave the odds for North-Korea, Iran, Venezuela or China to the bookies, but you can be sure that the odds are now even further down for the USA in the rest of the world.
Tillerson was no prize, but Pompeo would be even worse. Out of the frying pan…
Oh, GEEZ! How can things get so much worse? I thought Tillerson was a bad fit. Now Pompeo? Please! Give us a break! Now this nut in the CIA gonna make it to where we can be tortured by anybody and it can be used against us! Drumpfenfarten, what the hell is wrong with you?? Man. I don’t know what will happen next! And am afraid to venture a guess!
Thanks all. Senate Democrats do not have the power to stop either nomination, but that can and should nake the process a very noisy one.
Pompeo; Just what we need, another Kansas-Koch brother lapdog.Things are getting worse, not better.
A Kansas-Koch brother lapdog fourth in line of succession. That is stomach churning.
Checking the time stamp on the idiot-in-chief’s tweet, sacking Tillerson, 5:44 AM – 13 Mar 2018, it looks probable that the pretender-in-chief was *arting it out while downloading the past night’s cheeseburger.
Now that is a show of respect for both offices.