So he’s also choosing a Muslim city mayor over the American President?
Cancel his passport. Make China keep him.
Drain the swamp!
Phony article ....
He agreed to stay until his replacement.
Done and contriving a new excuse is lame...
Is Rank GAY????
“though his replacement in Beijing has already been approved by the Senate.”
So, basically, he tried to get a headline out of being already fired.
I know there is a lot to be done between the election and inauguration but if it were me, a letter would be sent prior asking for the resignations of all previous appointees. You can also add you would consider holding them over BUT you wanted that letter or your dismissal would be my FIRST official act.
Especially with the turmoil that was taking place with the OUTGOING pResident. It may be a tad different if you defeated him in his reelection.
Now, all these guys are still in place, lobbing hand grenades at will, coming up with off the wall statements, then using something else to resign, when almost 6 months into the new regime, they should have already been gone.
If the Bush people would have even THOUGHT about acting like these BO holdovers are acting, they all would have been brought up on Civil Rights charges - if for at least undermining a minority
So an career bureaucrat, put in position by Obama and made acting embassador offer President Trump fired his superior, is tending his resignation? No BFD, this parasite just saved the trouble of firing him.
Buh-bye!
Good! We need ALL of these 0bungie holdovers/interim weanies to resign, NOW.
His new job is the Chinese ambassador to the US
More fake news! Rank was temporary and his replacement, Branstad, was already chosen and announced last December (Dec. 7, 2016).........LOL!
Trump picks longtime friend of Beijing as U.S. ambassador to China
Good, we do not ignorant people in such positions.
Why does every one of these deals have to suck for this country and then when common sense intercedes it causes all this chaos? Don’t bother it was a rhetorical question.
David Rank, no one really cares.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
JoMa
David Rank is not quoted in the article. The entire story is from CNN by an unnamed State Department official.
I don’t believe it.
More signs of a war with North Korea is emminent. This guy is getting out of Dodge and virtue signaling at the same time - crafty operator with a sense of self preservation. We need to keep an eye on this one.
When will the turncoat Lukens give up his post as ambassador to the UK after his open criticism of the President?
That’s fine. Out with the old, in with the new.
An Ambassador serves the same function as an appendix.
Sits out there next to the anus.
They consume, but produceth not.
No one knows what they do.
Their removal causes O consequences.
Concluding query: Who gives a smelly Dorkbama if this clod resigns?