{"id":35,"date":"2018-03-13T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:08:10","slug":"trump-sacks-tillerson-as-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Trump sacks Tillerson as secretary of state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 17.25pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Thanking Mr Tillerson for his service on Twitter, Mr Trump said the new state secretary would do &#8220;a fantastic job&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Mr Tillerson, a former chief executive of ExxonMobil, was only appointed to the job just over a year ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">The president also nominated Gina Haspel to become the first woman director of the CIA.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">A senior White House official told the BBC about the timing of the announcement: &#8220;The president wanted to make sure to have his new team in place in advance of the upcoming talks with North Korea and various ongoing trade negotiations.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo. 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