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By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker March 13 at 8:40 AM
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.
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wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)game.
CincyDem
(6,385 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Trump is a moron
oasis
(49,407 posts)of Putin. Now he can completely ignore them.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)instead of other issues. I went in for a shower this morning, and came out to hear this announcement. Way to start the day off, Drumpf!
He never listens to anybody, so I don't suppose it makes much difference.