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We're told that Trump is quite comfortable with Pompeo, asking his advice on topics from immigration to the inner workings of Congress.
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Pompeo personally delivers the President's Daily Brief, making him one of the few people Trump spends a great deal of time with on a daily basis.
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Pompeo is one of the few in the administration who knows how to convey tough news to the president, and how to push back without turning DJT off. ( SecDef Mattis is good at that, too.)
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Trump doesn't see Pompeo as a showboat.
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Pompeo would take the job, as the cap to a career that included being a U.S. House member from Kansas.
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Pompeo would have credibility with world leaders, who'd know he was a legit part of the president's inner circle — something no one thinks about Tillerson.
Sources tell us Trump recognizes that a Cabinet shuffle would bring bad press. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly wants stability, and so is discouraging high-level departures before next year.
And yet, insiders say Trump's relationship with Tillerson is broken beyond repair. We're told Trump was furious that Tillerson didn't try to blunt the story about him calling the president a "moron," by just going out and denying it (whether or not it actually occurred).
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After what Trump considered a strong trip to Vegas, he seethed when he got back and saw Tillerson's gaffe dominating cable-news coverage. Everywhere he flipped, there was Tillerson's face instead of his.
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The relationship is so toxic, sources tell Jonathan Swan and me, that few in the White House think it can be rebuilt. There's zero trust between the West Wing and the State Department.
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NBC , which broke the "moron" story, said the chief of staff "abruptly scrapped plans to travel with ... Trump on Wednesday so he could try to contain his boss's fury."
Be smart : The breakdown in the relationship between a president and the Secretary of State has profound effects on American statecraft and the way foreign countries view this administration.
https://www.axios.com/cia-director-pompeo-considered-to-replace-tillerson-2493643532.html
Tillerson is not long for this administration. If he makes it through this year it would be a surprise.
The sitting Secretary of State called the sitting president a moron in front of a number of people.
(Why did he call Trump a moron? Trump had that day , in a meeting, compared the course of the war in Afghanistan to the problems a NY restaurant was having some years ago.)
He is a moron. Tillerson merely called a spade a spade.
Totally.
I don't think Tillerson is going anywhere anytime soon. Remember he is Trump's only legitimate link to Russia!
You don't call your boss a moron, publicly, if you want to keep your job.
Trump has undercut Tillerson a number of times. I would think that Tillerson is more than fed up with Trump.
I don't see Tillerson being around much longer, and whether he quits or is fired there is going to be chaos.
"We're told "
"Sources tell us "
" floating the idea "
That sums up the viability of this ..... whatever it is I just read.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud !