Posted on 10/23/2017 9:56:19 AM PDT by upchuck
The most popular parlor game in Washington right now is speculating who will replace Rex Tillerson as President Trump’s next secretary of state, a thankless job in an administration that has downgraded the role of the State Department and diplomacy overall. But two qualified and apparently willing candidates have emerged.
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As several excruciating profiles have detailed, Tillerson’s main legacy will likely be a State Department depleted of talent, with the lowest morale in decades and playing a reduced role in the crafting and implementation of U.S. foreign policy. His successor’s primary mission will be to reverse that trend. The top two contenders, Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, offer different paths for recovery.
Haley has been praised both externally and within the Trump team during her short tenure in New York City. She’s credited with “getting it done ” on matters such as North Korea sanctions and toughening up the U.S. stance at the United Nations.
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Pompeo would be a secretary of state with deeper ties to Trump and views that align more with those of the White House. He is more hawkish on Iran than Haley is. As he demonstrated in remarks last week, he is willing to play down Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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I figure someone must have a tape, or he COULD deny it.
Most popular game at the WaaaaaaaPo - trying to get a rise out of Trump backers via the anonymous rumor mill...
Hell no. Bolton is a Bush era neocon whose main goal is to get the US into another major war in the Middle East. Trump was only able to win the election because he signaled strongly against doing something like that.
Bolton is part of a faction of neocons that has been using though talk about Muslims and immigration to try to lure conservatives into trusting them again. Bolton was a Senior official in an administration that pursued open borders and radically increased Muslim immigration. 100% of Bolton’s political allies are open borders globalists. He has no connections to anyone who has a history of fighting open borders. In fact, Boltons’ friends and allies were the people responsible for purging conservatives who opposed open borders from the conservative media and foundations.
Why should he lower himself to answer to such childish media questions? Who runs the show, the media?
good lord people, this is more fake news from WaPo. Why does anyone here dignify their garbage? Unless of course, one happens to be a closet anti-Trumper, and jumps out of the closet to pile on every time some piece of anti-trump bullshit is posted here ...
“You can’t call your boss, especially when your boss is the president, and “fucking moron” and not get fired. “
I think Trump likes people with a temper. It shows that they’re fully alive.
There is rumor that he said that. In reality we do not know if he did or didn’t utter that statement. Especially when considering it was the press that made that claim. I have real doubts that he did say that.
Then why wouldn’t he simply say, I didn’t say it and don’t believe it, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. One reason, he would be lying if he said it.
If he's going to sit there and let himself be asked the question, then he should answer. Effectively, he did answer, by not denying he affirmed.
Who said Tillerson was leaving?
Just more liberal propaganda.
Kinda like answering when did you stop beating your wife.
He said I will not even respect that question enough to answer it. (Something to that affect) I know the game you are playing, and I’m not playing.
No, more like not answering: have you ever hit your wife, because several people have claimed you have.
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