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The abrupt firing Tuesday (carried out first on Twitter) comes after months of infighting between the State Department and Trump over efforts by Tillerson to save the Iran nuclear deal and ignore President Trump's demands the deal be fixed or totally scrapped if that cannot be done, according to multiple sources who spoke to the WFB.
Prior to Tillerson's "Twittercide" by Trump, he was leading efforts to convince European allies to work on fixes to the nuclear deal that would address Iran's ongoing ballistic missile program and continued nuclear research.
That sure isn't in his job description.
President Trump came up with a range of fixes that he believes tightened the deal's flaws, but Tillerson caved to European pressure to walk back those demands and appease Tehran while preserving the deal, say the sources.
How can you not fire someone who goes against the boss?
Tillerson's senior staff was warned by White House allies that if he continued going rogue, he might be out of a job, and that warning became reality when Trump fired him by a tweet--which isn't very great management strategy or very brave, and it makes me wonder if he really would have run into a school shooting as he claimed.
I don't think we can ever know until it happens . . . unless you're a first responder and are braver than the average civilian.
Tillerson will be replaced by current CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a former member of Congress and number one in his West Point graduation. [Unlike Maxine Waters, Mike is no dummy.]
Pompeo will most probably take a much harder line on the nuclear deal and advocate the Trump fixes.
For all of his management history, Tillerson is very arrogant and/or stupid to go against the president.
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