{"id":56336,"date":"2018-03-13T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56336"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:53:16","slug":"us-president-sacks-secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56336","title":{"rendered":"US President sacks Secretary of State Rex Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-bodyintroduction\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 21.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\">\n<p class=\"story-bodyintroduction\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 21.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Washington, March 13 (TNS): In a major development, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 17.25pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">Thanking Tillerson for his service on Twitter, President Trump said the new state secretary would do &#8220;a fantastic job&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">Tillerson, a former chief executive of ExxonMobil, was only appointed to the job just over a year ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">The president also nominated Gina Haspel to become the first woman director of the CIA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">The Department of State said Tillerson had not spoken to the president and was &#8220;unaware of the reason&#8221; for his firing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">Under Secretary Steve Goldstein said: &#8220;The Secretary had every intention of staying because of the critical progress made in national security.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-bodyintroduction\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\">\n<p class=\"story-bodyintroduction\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong>Courtesy: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, March 13 (TNS): In a major development, US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo. Thanking Tillerson for his service on Twitter, President Trump said the new state secretary would do &#8220;a fantastic job&#8221;. 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