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Can there be a more complicated set of circumstances awaiting the next secretary of state?<\/p>\n

Donald Trump tweets the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He tweets<\/em> it, I’m tellin’ ya. Tillerson said he doesn’t know why he was canned. The president then said he’s going to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the next top diplomat.<\/p>\n

Oh … and this is occurring while the United States is beginning to prepare for a potentially historic summit between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

Tillerson today thanks everyone under the sun for the opportunity to serve as secretary of state. Well, almost<\/em> everyone. He doesn’t thank Trump. Um, I’m betting Trump and Tillerson aren’t going to talk much to each other going forward.<\/p>\n

Pffeww!!<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m worn out — and I’m out here in the Flyover Country peanut gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pompeo also happens to one of those intelligence experts who believes the Russians meddled in our 2016 presidential election. He has said so on the record. He joins a distinguished list of officials: the director of national intelligence, the head of the National Security Agency, the president’s national security adviser (who well could be the next one out the door). They’ve all said the same thing: The Russians did it and they all contradict the idiocy spouted by the president, that if Vladimir Putin says he didn’t do it, then that’s good enough.<\/p>\n

I sincerely hope someone on on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which must vote to confirm Pompeo, asks him directly — once more — whether he still<\/em> believes the Russians meddled in our election.<\/p>\n

And with equal sincerity, I hope the Senate wastes little time in getting Pompeo confirmed. He’s got a full plate waiting for him when he takes over.<\/p>\n

I mean — crap!<\/em> — he’s got to prepare the president for this summit with Kim Jong Un. I’ll also have to hope Donald Trump will listen to what the new guy has to say.<\/p>\n\n

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