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BREAKING NEWS: Trump fires Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replaces him with CIA boss Mike Pompeo
 [DailyMail] - Dramatic morning tweet by the president announces that Rex Tillerson has been fired as Secretary of State
- Tillerson, the former boss of Exxon, had just been on a trip to Africa and was last seen boarding his Air Force place on Monday
- His last public act was to blame Russia for the poisoning of its former spy Sergei Skripal at a British pizza restaurant - something White House had not done
- Gina Haspel becomes first ever women to be Director of the CIA after clandestine career and involvement in 'black sites'
- Tillerson had a troubled relationship with Trump but Washington Post reported he had actually been fired on Friday without the news leaking
| Update at 10:00 a.m. ET: The text of the “dramatic” tweet: |
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He 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! Gina Haspel will need to face a Senate confirmation hearing.
Pompeo will not, because the Senate confirmed him as the CIA director just three days into the Trump administration.
| There’s a nice biography of Mr. Pompeo at the link: West Point, engineering company backed by Koch brothers, four terms in the House including sitting on the Intelligence committee and that Benghazi thing. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-13 |
