New York Times says White House has plan to oust Tillerson, but Is this story "Pure Political Propaganda?"

Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris report in the New York Times that the White House has developed a plan to replace Rex Tillerson at State with Mike Pompeo and then to replace Pompeo at CIA with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton!

John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, developed the transition plan and has discussed it with other officials. Under his plan, the shake-up of the national security team would happen around the end of the year or shortly afterward. But for all of his public combativeness, Mr. Trump is notoriously reluctant to fire people, and it was not known if Mr. Tillerson had agreed to step down by then. Public disclosure of Mr. Kelly’s transition plan may be meant as a signal to the secretary that it is time to go.

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I checked The Conservative Treehouse, and Sundance is not buying the story. He calls it Pure Political Propaganda.

...The media agenda here is clear. Secretary of State Rex is methodically downsizing the State Department and reversing the current mission of the agency away from interventionist globalism, and back toward common sense foreign policy.

The positions of hundreds of pontificating sanctimonious career bureaucrats are being dissolved. The Deep State is being deconstructed and the globalists are apoplectic.



That reality has created the need for left-wing propaganda pushers like the New York Times to create narratives to defend their Deep State Swamp interests.

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