3/13/18: Tuesday morning the president decides this would be a perfect time to fire Rex Tillerson. (See: 3/12/18 for his comments on Russia.)
And the classiest way to do it would be to tweet the news: “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!”
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“As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be.”
President Trump
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In a speech to State Department employees later the same day, Tillerson explains that he had been called by the Orange Buffoon (three hours after seeing the tweet) to be officially told he was canned. In his farewell, Tillerson warns diplomats that “much work remains to respond to the troubling behavior and actions on the part of the Russian government [emphasis added, here and below],” and says Russia could face “greater isolation on their part, a situation which is not in anyone’s interest.”
Trump’s response to the poisoning in Salisbury (see: 3/12/18), England is more restrained. One might call it cowardly. “As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them,” he tells reporters, “we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be.”
It could have been anyone. It could have been Monaco. Or
Malta! Or some 400-pound guy sitting on his couch in Madagascar!
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TILLERSON is not the only one who thinks Russia remains a threat. Rep. Trey Gowdy breaks with GOP colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee. He says evidence shows Russia worked to undermine Hillary Clinton and help Donald J. Trump in 2016. Russian meddling, he says, was “motivated in whole or in part by a desire to harm her candidacy or undermine her Presidency had she prevailed.”
Who else could have told the president this was the case? How about Don Jr., who took a meeting with Russians, on the premise that the Russians had every intention of helping his dear old Dad!
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