AND NOW TRUMP WANTS A WOMAN WHO HEADED UP A U.S BLACK SITE IN THAILAND TO RUN THE CIA
Yesterday's Edition of
AS THE WHITE HOUSE TURNS:
PART 1: Tillerson Fired
On Tuesday March 13, 2018, Trump and company tried to play it off like Rex Tillerson was asked to resign last Friday and his exit was planned.
Nobody would have been surprised by this since Tillerson reportedly called Trump a "f***ing moron" last summer. What is surprising is that Tillerson lasted this long after refusing to deny he called Trump a "moron."
After the White House tried to make the Secretary of State's transition look less like OPERATION CHAOS continuing to roll with firings and abrupt resignations, Tillerson's aide came out and said Tillerson wanted to continue as the United States top diplomat. Aide Steve Goldstein said Tillerson found out he'd been fired and replaced via a tweet.
PART 2: Tillerson Aide Fired
PART 4: Is Tillerson's firing related to russian nerve gas incident in the U.K.?
It's possible that Tillerson recently contradicted Trump one time to many.
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Yesterday's Edition of
AS THE WHITE HOUSE TURNS:
On Tuesday March 13, 2018, Trump and company tried to play it off like Rex Tillerson was asked to resign last Friday and his exit was planned.
Nobody would have been surprised by this since Tillerson reportedly called Trump a "f***ing moron" last summer. What is surprising is that Tillerson lasted this long after refusing to deny he called Trump a "moron."
After the White House tried to make the Secretary of State's transition look less like OPERATION CHAOS continuing to roll with firings and abrupt resignations, Tillerson's aide came out and said Tillerson wanted to continue as the United States top diplomat. Aide Steve Goldstein said Tillerson found out he'd been fired and replaced via a tweet.
PART 2: Tillerson Aide Fired
Goldstein publicly contradicted the White House account of how Tillerson was fired on Tuesday morning.
Goldstein said Tillerson was officially notified he'd been fired from a tweet from President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, and in a statement, said Tillerson had "every intention of remaining."A senior administration official said Trump asked Tillerson to step aside on Friday and a senior White House official later clarified that chief of staff John Kelly told Tillerson that he would be replaced, but did not specify the timing.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/goldstein-tillerson-fired/index.html
Goldstein was then fired as well.
PART 3 Tillerson's Exit Speech
Tillerson was in Africa when he was let go. He flew back to the United States and gave an exit speech where he notably did not thank Trump for his opportunity to serve.
He handed off duties the same day. But as part of transitioning whatever mess he's involved in to Mike Pompeo, soon to be ex-head of the CIA, he will stay on in Washington D.C. until the end of March.
http://time.com/5198060/rex-tillerson-fired-farewell-trump/
A lot of people are wondering about the timing of this firing. Well, impulse control is not the Orange Menace's strong suit. He's got a meeting with North Korea coming up which makes this the worst time to change out your Secretary of State. But to Trump, having a circle of yes-men apparently matters more.
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Trump Denies Russian Guilt in Murder. Tillerson Admits It, Is Fired. Hmm.
Every Trump administration personnel shake-up is a noir story of terrible, incompetent people squabbling with other terrible, incompetent people. But one thing that stands out about the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is that Tillerson explicitly identified Russia as the culprit in the murder of Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, and Donald Trump did not.
Yesterday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders condemned the murder as “reckless,” but repeatedly declined to endorse the United Kingdom’s conclusion that Russia was behind it. This exchange with reporters is quite odd...
PART 5: Gina Haspel to become head of CIA?
Really?
When Pompeo moves from being the head of the CIA into the Secretary Of State job, Gina Haspel is Trump's pick to move up and be the first woman to head of the CIA....um....only she ran OPERATION CAT-EYE in Thailand, which involved being in charge of an Abu Ghraib type black site where torturing of prisoners took place during her watch under the Bush Jr. administration.
Yeah....Okay....No problem.
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