The Trump purge: What happens when the replacements aren’t loyal enough?

Stephens argues Trump’s move to make Mike Pompeo his new Secretary of State is an improvement. What Stephens fails to mention, however, is the number times Trump directly undermined Tillerson. How Tillerson wanted to fill high-level positions within the State Department and Trump would veto Tillerson’s choices. The reality is, Tillerson never had the flexibility given to former Secretary’s of State had to do their job efficiently and still serve the president’s interests. It’s not clear how Pompeo will have better luck.

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Jeff Sessions is also on Trump’s list of targets. There was nobody more loyal to Trump than Sessions. Ted Cruz boasted of his relationship with Sessions during the 2016 campaign, and the next Cruz looked, Sessions was at a rally with Trump, sporting a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat and endorsing Trump. However, Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation and hadn’t taken up Trump’s challenge to prosecute Hillary Clinton for the hell of it.

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