Exit, Rex Tillerson
The secretary of state is out after 14 months on the job.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Mar 13, 2018
3 minutes
Rex Tillerson is out as secretary of state, President Trump in a tweet Tuesday, and will be replaced as America’s top diplomat by Mike Pompeo, currently the CIA director. Accounts differ, but a statement from the State Department suggested that Tillerson did not to know this was coming. That’s much the same way Trump got rid of James Comey, the FBI director, who was addressing the bureau on the West Coast when he saw the news he had been fired on TV. A State Department statement said Tillerson “had every intention
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