Why fire Tillerson now? Unshackled Trump making more unilateral decisions

By firing Rex Tillerson, Trump is creating a team in his own image, not likely to contradict him but rather to provide affirmation Donald Trump has demonstrated yet again that he is the opposite of his reality TV persona who relished telling contestants to their face: “You’re fired!” In real life, FBI director James Comey learned of his termination last year from television screens in a room where he was making a speech to bureau agents in Los Angeles. And on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found out about his demise when Trump announced it in a tweet, according to state department officials. Continue reading... source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/14/rex-tillerson-fired-unshackled-trump #Headlines by: David Smith in Washington

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