UPDATE: Tillerson learned of his ouster via Trump’s tweet! – Trump to Tillerson: YOU’RE FIRED!!!

El Presidente Trumpo finally got tired of Tillerson talking down his BFF Putin, and he has FIRED him this morning.

He tweeted about it just now:

Here’s the reporting from the Wall Street Journal:

President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.

Trump last Friday asked Tillerson to step aside, and the embattled top diplomat cut short his trip to Africa on Monday to return to Washington.

Pompeo will replace him at the State Department, and Gina Hapsel — the deputy director at the CIA — will succeed him at the CIA, becoming the first woman to run the spy agency, if confirmed.

In a statement issued to The Washington Post, Trump praised both Pompeo and Haspel.

“I am proud to nominate the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, to be our new Secretary of State,” Trump said. “Mike graduated first in his class at West Point, served with distinction in the U.S. Army, and graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School. He went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives with a proven record of working across the aisle.”

If Tillerson was reading my post yesterday, he would have saw this coming…. guess he shouldn’t have criticized Putin, huh?

UPDATE!!! The eminent scoop pointed out that it’s being reported Rexy was fired last Friday, before he made his last comments about Russia. I respond thusly: That could be accurate or not, but Tillerson has been critical of Putin and parted from the White House line for a long time now, even if his comment yesterday isn’t taken into consideration. So there. 

Also here’s a video:

UPDATE (TRS): I’m very glad to see Tillerson go as he has been at odds with Trump from nearly day one. Just like others in the administration that Trump picked, he just wasn’t a good fit. It’s been a long time coming but I’m glad this day has finally arrived.

As a reminder…

 
UPDATE (TRS): Tillerson unaware of the reason for his ouster:


 
UPDATE (TRS): Trump admits he and Rex have been talking about this for a long time.

So all those times Trump called the rumors of Rex’s ouster ‘fake news’, it was really true. Wow.

And here is Trump admitting he didn’t discuss the decision to fire Rex with him last week:

UPDATE (TRS): Tillerson learned of his ouster via Trump’s tweet!

Well I guess he wouldn’t be the first…


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