Rex Tillerson sacked

Rex Tillerson sacked

Who had that one in their whitehouse deadpool? Odds on favourite was McMaster.

Still, shortly after announcing historic talks with the despotic leader of a rogue nuclear power, that's the perfect time to give your chief foreign diplomat the boot.

Pompeo is taking his place - ex-head of the CIA so he can at least be expected to have a good grasp on the foreign affairs, lets hope he can get up to speed in enough time.

No Chaos, no chaos!

I'm not sure of that. The guy has only been head for a year and before that a congressman.

Seth Abrahamson (I know, I know) reckons that Tillerson got word of this a few days ago and his Russia comments were made in light of no longer being required to toe Trumps lines.

Was it before or after he called Trump a fucking moron though?

Wasn't there some 'suicide pact' that Tillerson was meant to be part of? Can't remember who else was rumoured to be in it with him...but could we see a couple of resignations to follow this?

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reportedly have forged a "suicide pact" in which all three members of President Trump's Cabinet would leave if one of them becomes a target of the president

let's see if true

Ya Boy!! Rex Tills aka Pres ExOil aka SecSt (sorry be being so, how you say?.... urban!?!). Found out he was fired via Twitter.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-personal-assistant-is-fired-1520945928

Season two of the Presidenttice continues with another firing. More so escorted out and not allowed to collect his things by security!!

That's the one. Another energetic week ahead. Normally they leave the big stuff until Friday...I can only imagine what they are building up to this week!

Fuck a person in the ass not give him a reach around.

The White House’s account of the Tillerson firing collapsed within minutes.

Senior administration officials told outlets including The Washington Post and CNN that Tillerson had been told he would be dismissed on Friday, March 9.

A lot turns on that timing. On March 12, Tillerson had backed the British government’s accusation that Russia was culpable for a nerve-agent attack on United Kingdom soil. If Tillerson had been fired March 9, then his words of support for Britain could not explain his firing three days before. But if the White House was lying about the timing, it could be lying about the motive.

And since it now seems all but certain that the White House was lying about the timing, it looks more probable that it was lying about the motive too.

The U.S.-U.K. response to the Russian nerve gas attack should have been coordinated in advance. It was not. The U.S. statement of support for Britain should have arrived on the day that the prime minister delivered her accusation. It did not. The response—if any—should also already be agreed upon. It plainly has not been.

The United Kingdom does not find itself deprived of U.S. support because of some British mistake or rush to judgment. Most of the U.S. government shares the British assessment of what happened—as attested by Tillerson’s statement in support of Britain, which would have relied on U.S. intelligence agency reports. Only Trump stands apart, vetoing any condemnation of Russia and perhaps punishing his secretary of state for breaking ranks on the president’s no-criticizing-Putin policy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-pick-cia-director-female-career-spymaster-131953962--politics.html

Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo.

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BREAKING: Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein is being fired for contradicting the account of Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, White House official tells @NBCPolitics - @PeterAlexander

12:31 PM - Mar 13, 2018

Tillerson should have known better than to accuse the russians of killing that UK double agent. The Russians have video of trump doing crazy things with russian prostitutes.

New record!! We have number 4!!

"ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Sessions about Calif. immigrant arrests"

"“I quit because I didn’t want to perpetuate misleading facts,”

So basically the ICE chief and Sessions pressured him to lie about the impact Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff's warning of impending ICE raids there:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...l ... 3d2721b461

Mattis might go, because I think he understands honor; but Mnuchin, as Gunny put it so elouquently; is the kind of guy who'd:

the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!

I kid you not, on of the Trumpistas on my Facbeook says the constant sackings, firings and dismissals are a good thing. A sign that Trump is shaking things up.

Firing the people he brought in to shake things up is shaking it up? Like Northampton Saints fans, they're delusion

I can't wait till Mueller moves on Kushner.