White House Plans Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo, Within Weeks

[IronLionZion]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, perhaps within the next several weeks, senior administration officials said on Thursday.

Mr. Pompeo would be replaced at the C.I.A. by Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas who has been a key ally of the president on national security matters, according to the White House plan. Mr. Cotton has signaled that he would accept the job if offered, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations before decisions are announced.

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump has given final approval to the plan, but he has been said to have soured on Mr. Tillerson and in general is ready to make a change at the State Department. John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, developed the transition plan and has discussed it with other officials.

Under his plan, the shake-up of the national security team would happen around the end of the year or shortly afterward. But for all of his public combativeness, Mr. Trump is notoriously reluctant to fire people, and it was not known if Mr. Tillerson had agreed to step down by then. Public disclosure of Mr. Kelly’s transition plan may be meant as a signal to the secretary that it is time to go.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/politics/state-department-tillerson-pompeo-trump.html

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More officials should call him a moron. What's the average duration of a Trump cabinet member? a few months?

[rickford66]

1. Rearranging the Titanic deck chairs again.

The iceberg is still ahead.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Full speed ahead!

[IronLionZion]

3. Maybe they'll get rid of McMaster next?

I want someone to get Don Jr. or Jared on tape insulting Donny. Then things would really get interesting.

[groundloop]

4. "notoriously reluctant to fire people"

Hell, that's all he does. It's how 45* covers up for his own shortcomings and inability to work with people.

[harun]

5. Are we a military dictatorship yet?

[IronLionZion]

6. As he fires everyone who says he's stupid

there won't be anyone left.

Tillerson was a piss poor Sec of State. Not sure if Pompeo would do any better.

[DFW]

7. Considering the damage Tillerson has wrought on the State Department

Getting rid of him now is chasing a horse that has long left the barn.

Tell ya what, Rexy, take the Moron and the Vice-Moron with you, and all is forgiven.

[EricMaundry]

8. Tillerson pushed the moron's moron button

What a disaster this administration is.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment...

[Maeve]

10. Well, a NYT story may work to keep him there until January

Gotta be in the position a whole year or he'll lose that tax break, IIRC.

[Politicub]

11. And POS Tom Cotton will be placed in charge of the CIA

More grist for the mill that’s ripping apart our country.

Just when you don’t think things can get worse, they do. Each day, more far right ghouls get dredged from the cesspool so they can continue burning down America.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Maybe Trump will run out of unqualified people to appoint

and he'll have to appoint someone who might actually do a good job.