NY TIMES: Plan is now in place to OUST Tillerson, replace him with Pompeo!

The NY Times has a new bombshell report this morning on Tilleson being kicked out and replaced by CIA director Mike Pompeo:

NY TIMES – 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, 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.

While some administration officials initially expected him to be replaced by Nikki R. Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Pompeo has become the White House favorite.

There’ve been rumors all year of tension between Tillerson and Trump and we wrote a report in October of how officials were pushing for Pompeo to replace Tillerson.

Looks like it might be finally coming to fruition.

As an aside, I like the idea of Tom Cotton as CIA director, however I just hope we don’t lose that seat in the Senate.


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