Trump fires Tillerson, Pompeo in at State
This is very good.
Tillerson was in the pocket of the failed Republican establishment that has resisted what President Trump has been trying to do.
We need a drastic overhaul of our foreign policy. Trump knows it. It looks as if Pompeo is in line with the President’s thinking. But Tillerson wasn’t. This is a much-needed step in the right direction.
“Trump dramatically FIRES Rex Tillerson on Twitter without telling him personally – leaving secretary of state baffled at sudden replacement by CIA boss Mike Pompeo,” by David Martosko, Dailymail.com, March 13, 2018:
President Donald Trump fired his secretary of state on Tuesday without telling him personally, announcing on Twitter that he would dismiss Rex Tillerson and elevate the nation’s spymaster to the role of global diplomat-in-chief.And he said he will appoint a woman to lead the CIA for the first time in history.Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Steven Goldstein said in a statement that Tillerson ‘had every intention of staying.’‘The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve,’ Goldstein added.Despite the awkwardness of the moment for Tillerson, the president took the public spotlight for himself.As he left the White House for a trip to California, Trump told reporters that he and Tillerson had been ‘talking about this for a long time’ but that he ‘made the decision by myself.’‘We disagreed on things,’ Trump said, citing the Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran.‘I think Rex will be much happier now,’ he declared.‘We were not really thinking the same. With Mike, Mike Pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think it’s going to go very well.’He gushed that the future secretary as Mike Pompeo has ‘tremendous energy, tremendous intellect, we’re always on the same wavelength. The relationship has been very good.’The president had tweeted earlier that Pompeo ‘will do a fantastic job!’‘Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!’Haspel was the CIA’s deputy director, a career officer who was a longtime clandestine officer.In a statement, Trump said Pompeo ‘graduated first in his class at West Point, served with distinction in the U.S. Army, and graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School. He went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives with a proven record of working across the aisle.’He called Haspel’s move to the CIA’s reins ‘a historic milestone.’Trump also had words of praise for Tillerson: ‘A great deal has been accomplished over the last fourteen months, and I wish him and his family well,’ he said.The president, however, had clashed with Tillerson over and over again in the past year, seeing him as a relic of the Republican establishment at a time when the nation needed more unconventional thinking….
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