{"id":31753,"date":"2018-03-13T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31753"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:37:29","slug":"tillerson-out-pompeo-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/tillerson-out-pompeo-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson Out Pompeo In"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s chief diplomat who repeatedly had found himself at odds with the White House on a variety of key foreign policy issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not really thinking the same,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House, explaining his decision to replace Mr. Tillerson.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cReally, it was a different mind-set, a different thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a report<\/a> from CNN.<\/font><\/p>\n