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03-13-2018 , 08:46 AM

#86751

dth123451

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Tillerson fired one day after saying Russia did the poison.

Putin really does own this *******, huh?

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03-13-2018 , 08:49 AM

#86752

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Originally Posted by dth123451

Tillerson fired one day after saying Russia did the poison.

Putin really does own this *******, huh?

Yeah it is amazing how tone deaf Trumo is to optics. It directly gives the appearance that Putin fired Tillerson.

Tillerson was obviously a horrible choice for the job and basically did nothing but still Trump hired him and now fired him.

03-13-2018 , 08:50 AM

#86753

bobman0330

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WaPo is reporting that he was asked to resign Friday, which would suggest that his remarks on the poisoning were caused by his firing, not the other way around.

03-13-2018 , 08:50 AM

#86754

SuperUberBob

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I'd love for a news outlet to have the balls to write "President Vladimir Putin fires Rex Tillerson". I'm sure the new guy will be fluent in Russian.

03-13-2018 , 08:51 AM

#86755

epcfast

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Or the UAE
Maybe Qatar will rethink talking to Mueller now.

03-13-2018 , 08:52 AM

#86756

Clovis8

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The onion has taken control of cnn?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/polit...sit/index.html

03-13-2018 , 08:53 AM

#86757

eyebooger

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WTF

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...40316656623616

03-13-2018 , 08:54 AM

#86758

StimAbuser

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Has there been any rumblings of him being fired or was this out of left field?

03-13-2018 , 08:54 AM

#86759

prana

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well oiled machine

03-13-2018 , 08:56 AM

#86760

markksman

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Trump also had words of praise for Tillerson: “Finally, I want to thank Rex Tillerson for his service. A great deal has been accomplished over the last fourteen months, and I wish him and his family well.”

Not even a kernel of truth to that. And it is nice they are saying Trump fired him on Friday and he is making official statements on Monday.

03-13-2018 , 08:56 AM

#86761

Chippa58

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Quote:

Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Has there been any rumblings of him being fired or was this out of left field?

There have been tensions between Tillerson and Trump. Rarely are they on the same page. I think the timing is a bigger surprise.

03-13-2018 , 09:00 AM

#86762

markksman

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WaPo is reporting that he was asked to resign Friday, which would suggest that his remarks on the poisoning were caused by his firing, not the other way around.

Not sure I buy it. Tillerson has said literally nothing about anything except once about North Korea and he chooses to make a comment like that three days after being fired? Tillerson doesn’t strike me as that kind of guy and I certainly think the Whitehouse would leak the story like that to get away from any Russia talk.

03-13-2018 , 09:02 AM

#86763

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Originally Posted by markksman

Agree it's all a little murky. He was apparently pulled off of a foreign tour as well, so there was clearly some urgency to getting him out.

03-13-2018 , 09:03 AM

#86764

BoterSmoter

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Blame the Ruskies for a nerve gas attack on Britain soil, get sacked less than 24 hours later.

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03-13-2018 , 09:04 AM

#86765

Habsfan09

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Could it be a diversion? Maybe his plan was to remove Pompeo from the CIA and get somebody more in line with him on the top.

03-13-2018 , 09:06 AM

#86766

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

This seems suspicious

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.d0e17719a0be

Looks like this was what Nunberg was so worked up about, and why he was going on about Roger Stone. He snitched on his mentor, and now Muller has evidence of Stone lying to Congress.

03-13-2018 , 09:06 AM

#86767

Namath12

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Originally Posted by bptuneman

Rex Tillerson
United States Secretary of State

03-13-2018 , 09:06 AM

#86768

ChrisV

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Hard to even comprehend how dysfunctional the US Executive is at the moment.

03-13-2018 , 09:07 AM

#86769

dth123451

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I'm legitimately starting to think they've got something much worse than pee pee tapes.

At this point, what could possibly come out that deplorables, or more importantly GOP congressional slappies, would find actionable? It must be REALLY bad.

03-13-2018 , 09:07 AM

#86770

ChrisV

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Also, Pompeo is a full bore deplorable.

03-13-2018 , 09:08 AM

#86771

dth123451

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Originally Posted by Habsfan09

Could it be a diversion? Maybe his plan was to remove Pompeo from the CIA and get somebody more in line with him on the top.

Ah yes, Donald just playing 4D chess again.

03-13-2018 , 09:08 AM

#86772

wheatrich

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Originally Posted by markksman

Yeah it is amazing how tone deaf Trumo is to optics.

Those optics won't change a single person who voted for him from doing it again.

Remember that report if one of the group of munchkin/mattis/tillerson got got they'd all leave? We'll find out if that was fake news shortly.

03-13-2018 , 09:09 AM

#86773

runout_mick

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It's just a slow motion, 24/7/365 train wreck.

03-13-2018 , 09:10 AM

#86774

pyatnitski

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Tillerson was in Africa trying to get them to stop taking Chinese loans or something. Hard to imagine what happened there was the last straw, I would be a little surprised if Trump even knew it was going on.