CNN Cites Anonymous Sources Who Declare Rex Tillerson is Thinking About Resigning from Secretary of State

They’re adorably dubbing this one a ‘REXIT’, an obvious play on words to commingle one of their bitter defeats (BREXIT) with a potential massive windfall for team CNN: A Rex Tillerson resignation inside the first year working for President Trump.

CNN Fake News Reports.

Tillerson has a growing list of differences with the White House, including a new debate over Iran policy and personnel. His frustration is hardly a secret and it has spilled out publicly at times. But friends sense a change of late.

For weeks, conversations with Tillerson friends outside of Washington have left the impression that he, despite his frustrations, was determined to stay on the job at least through the end of the year. That would allow time to continue efforts to reorganize the State Department and would mean he could claim to have put in a year as America’s top diplomat.

But two sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity over the weekend said they would not be surprised if there was a “Rexit” from Foggy Bottom sooner that that.

Both of these sources are familiar with Tillerson conversations with friends outside Washington. Both said there was a noticeable increase in the secretary’s frustration and his doubts that the tug-of-war with the White House would subside anytime soon. They also acknowledged it could have been venting after a tough week, a suggestion several DC-based sources made when asked if they saw evidence Tillerson was looking for an exit strategy.

Amusingly, Trump supporters seem to be elated with the specter of this news. It seems that most supporters of the President are disenfranchised with the President’s cabinet picks, save Bannon — which begs the question: if Trump is such a good delegator, why the hell did he make so many poor choices for his cabinet?

Anti-Trumpsters and deep state shills are actively circle jerking over each and every negative White House rumor, with their eyes fixed on the grande prize: a Trump impeachment.

Some argue that the President is barreling towards a Nixonian “Saturday Night Massacre“, whereby his AG and Deputy AG resign after failing to fire the special counsel. Judging by the President’s tweets this morning, the Nixon timeline might just replay itself here.

The AP is reporting a second person has tested positive for norovirus, after eating in a Virginian Chipotle. Judging by the pin action in the stock price since that occurred (-13%), you’d think people were contracting aids after eating faggot burritos there.

Either way, America now HATES Chipotle. Considering the undeniable facts that white Americans love to eat pseudo Mexican fare, this has to be boolish for JACK, owner of Qdoba.

A Virginia health official says a second person has tested positive for norovirus after eating at a Chipotle before it was temporarily closed last week following reports of illnesses.

David Goodfriend, director of the Loudoun County Health Department, says two people now have tested positive for norovirus. Goodfriend previously said a second confirmed case would give a strong indication norovirus was behind the reported illnesses.

Chipotle reopened the location Wednesday after a “complete sanitization.” It noted its procedures to deal with the issue quickly and said its food was safe to eat. Its stock nevertheless fell, underscoring its vulnerability following past food scares.

Norovirus is a leading cause of illnesses from contaminated food.

Goodfriend says some of those sickened were Chipotle employees. Officials planned to release more information later Monday.

Ah, looky here, it appears JACK sucks too — down 15% for 2017. This is the purest form of corporate idiocy you’ll ever see. If I was the CEO of JACK, I’d be running television ads 24/7, wildly besmirching CMG and creating a juxtaposition between Qdoba non poisoned fare and Chipotle. However, being JACK likely has something to hide, they’re staying low key.

Maybe they’re secretly poisoning people too?

In spite of the fact that Greece has an astounding $327 billion in debt, or 180% debt/GDP, they’ve announced they’re going to issue more debt — which will be valued on July 25th, 2017.

On this news, Greek 5yr bonds plunged in yield to 3.4%, the lowest since the Greek debt crisis of 2012 when yields were sporting a cool 63%.

The Greek Finance Ministry said they’re looking to issue the new debt at a yield of 4.2%. But some skeptics believe it’ll likely get done between 4.3%-4.5% — hardly a yield to be ashamed of, especially when considering the fact that Greece is entirely dependent on the ECB to pay its bills.

This is all part of a larger plan to exit the EU bailout — weaning itself off the EU tit.

With the sale, the government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seeking to chalk out a path for an exit from the current bailout program, which ends in August 2018, while also capping the country’s financing needs in 2019 — expected to be about 19 billion euros ($22.1 billion). After not being able to convince creditors to reduce its debt burden and being left out of the European Central Bank’s bond-purchase program, Greece is testing the market.

It’s “perfect timing,” said Lutz Roehmeyer, who helps oversee 12 billion euros at Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH. “It is after getting bailout money, after getting the go ahead for a debt reduction next year, after IMF said it is likely to join the bailout finally, after S&P rating action and still before ECB ends QE and started raising rates.” Roehmeyer already holds Greek bonds and plans to take part in the new issue.

The bond sale follows the successful conclusion of the second bailout review and the disbursement of the first part of the 8.5 billion-euro tranche by the European Stability Mechanism on July 10. The IMF agreed to a new $1.8 billion conditional loan for Greece on Thursday, with disbursement contingent on euro-zone countries providing debt relief.

S&P Global Ratings raised the country’s sovereign credit-rating outlook to positive on Friday, while affirming the long-term foreign currency debt rating at B-, or six levels below investment grade. The credit-rating arbiter increased its outlook from stable.

Greece is also encouraging $4b worth of 2019 4.75% debt holders to exchange for cash, especially since yields are currency in the 3s.

Not too shabby, especially when taking into account Greece is in its 3rd ECB bailout, amounting to over $250 billion and beneficiary of a draconian debt restructuring owed to the private sector that reduced face value by 53%.

A boutique sporting goods retailer, domiciled in rural America, Hibbett Sports, warned this morning — which has led to sharp declines amidst the entire retail landscape — most notably in the shares of BGFV and DKS.

Based on very challenging sales trends, comparable store sales are expected to decrease ~10% for the second quarter ending July 29, 2017. The decline in sales, along with significant pressure on gross margin, is expected to result in a loss of $0.19 to $0.22 per diluted share for Q2 vs. +$0.15 consensus. Additional details and revised full-year guidance will be provided on August 18, 2017, when the Company reports its second quarter results.

The Co also announced the launch of a new, transactional e-commerce website, www.Hibbett.com. The site will provide customers with a robust, user-friendly experience and will have an expansive assortment of footwear, apparel and equipment items to choose from. The site will also be fully integrated with Company stores, including visibility of in-store inventory, the ability to fulfill online orders from stores, the ability to return online purchases in stores, and full integration of the newly enhanced Hibbett Rewards program.

The warning sent HIBB down a solid 30%.

The geniuses on Wall Street are hitting footwear stocks especially hard, since Hibbett is a major player in the sneaker game genre. Names like GCO, FINL, FL, BOOT, DECK, CAL and SCVL are getting claw hammered. SHLD is off by nearly 6% and M is off by another 2%.

This is such a wretched industry that even the slightest semblance of bad news sends shareholders scurrying for shelter. Like oil and gas, these stocks are toxic and should not be part of any long term investment strategy.

UPDATE: Kushner gave a live statement. Truth be told, I never heard his voice before now.

Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, released an 11 page treatise this morning, describing all of the manners in which he did nothing wrong, most of which not colluding with evil Russians.

Here are the details.

Source: Axios

“When it became apparent that my father-in-law was going to be the Republican nominee for President, as normally happens, a number of officials from foreign countries attempted to reach out to the campaign. My father-in-law asked me to be a point of contact with these foreign countries. … [O]ver the course of the campaign, I had incoming contacts with people from approximately 15 countries.”

“I called on a variety of people with deep experience, such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, for advice on policy for the candidate, which countries/representatives with which the campaign should engage, and what messaging would resonate.”

“The first [campaign contact] that I can recall was at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. in April 2016. … [T]he host of the event, Dimitri Simes, … introduced me to several guests, among them four ambassadors, including Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. With all the ambassadors, including Mr. Kislyak, we shook hands, exchanged brief pleasantries.”

“Reuters news service has reported that I had two calls with Ambassador Kislyak at some time between April and November of 2016. While I participated in thousands of calls during this period, I do not recall any such calls with the Russian Ambassador. We have reviewed the phone records available to us and have not been able to identify any calls to any number we know to be associated with Ambassador Kislyak and I am highly skeptical these calls took place.”

“I had no ongoing relationship with the Ambassador before the election, and had limited knowledge about him.”

“The only other Russian contact during the campaign is one I did not recall at all until I was reviewing documents and emails in response to congressional requests for information.”

That was the Trump Tower meeting, and he said the invitation from Donald Trump Jr. “was on top of a long [email] back and forth that I did not read at the time. … Documents confirm my memory that this was calendared as ‘Meeting: Don Jr.| Jared Kushner.’ No one else was mentioned.”

“There was one more possible contact that I will note. On October 30, 2016, I received a random email from the screenname ‘Guccifer400.’ This email, which I interpreted as a hoax, was an extortion attempt and threatened to reveal candidate Trump’s tax returns and demanded that we send him 52 bitcoins in exchange for not publishing that information. I brought the email to the attention of a U.S. Secret Service agent on the plane we were all travelling on and asked what he thought. He advised me to ignore it and not to reply — which is what I did. The sender never contacted me again.”

“On November 16, 2016, my assistant received a request for a meeting from the Russian Ambassador. … The [Dec. 1] meeting occurred in Trump Tower, where we had our transition office, and lasted twenty [to] thirty minutes. Lt. General Michael Flynn (Ret.), who became the President’s National Security Advisor, also attended.

“I believed developing a thoughtful approach on Syria was a very high priority given the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and I asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy we could use where they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to General Flynn. The Ambassador said that would not be possible and so we all agreed that we would receive this information after the Inauguration. Nothing else occurred. I did not suggest a ‘secret back channel.'”

“My assistant reported that the Ambassador had requested that I meet with a person named Sergey Gorkov who he said was a banker and someone with a direct line to the Russian President who could give insight into how Putin was viewing the new administration and best ways to work together. I agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Ambassador has been so insistent, said he had a direct relationship with the President, and because Mr. Gorkov was only in New York for a couple days.”

“The [Dec. 13] meeting with Mr. Gorkov lasted twenty to twenty-five minutes. … At no time was there any discussion about my companies, business transactions, real estate projects, loans, banking arrangements or any private business of any kind.”

“There has been a good deal of misinformation reported about my SF-86 [security clearance] form. As my attorneys and I have previously explained, my SF-86 application was prematurely submitted due to a miscommunication and initially did not list any contacts (not just with Russians) with foreign government officials.”

“[P]eople at my New York office were helping me find the information, organize it, review it and put it into the electronic form. They sent an email to my assistant in Washington, communicating that the changes to one particular section were complete; my assistant interpreted that message as meaning that the entire form was completed.

“At that point, the form was a rough draft and still had many omissions including not listing any foreign government contacts and even omitted the address of my father-in-law (which was obviously well known). Because of this miscommunication, my assistant submitted the draft on January 18, 2017.”

“The very next day, January 19, 2017, we submitted supplemental information to the transition, which confirmed receipt and said they would immediately transmit it to the FBI.”

Jared will be providing America will be testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee this morning — behind closed doors.

This morning’s tweetstorm made me a little sad. I talk a big game about wanting chaos — but when I actually see it, it’s not so cool.

So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017

Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer – it's actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017

Axios is reporting (former Politico shills) that the President is now floating the idea of replacing Sessions with Guiliani. I said this before and I’ll say it again, trusting Sessions was Trump’s biggest mistake. Now he has a sewer in his own White House. If he tries to drain it himself, it’ll likely trigger a maelstrom of criticism, maybe ever impeachment proceedings.

This whole ordeal is a mess, isn’t it? And maybe that’s the point. Drag meaningless stories through the main stream long enough to dispirit people to the point of wanting it all to end. But you must admit, having Rudy as AG would be entertainment personified and would all but guarantee a Hillary Clinton trial and hanging.

I know a lot of people who like Bernie Sanders, even republicans. Having Sanders as President of the United States would really irk the deep staters. His grande ideas are, generally, marxist in nature — which jibe pretty well with the true nature of neconism. However, where he strays off the reservation is when it comes to war.

He’s not a big fan.

Plus, he fucking hates bankers.

Nevertheless, good olde Bernie said he might run for President in 2020.

When asked if he might give it another try, in spite of being pitchforked over the coals by the DNC and Hillary, an associate of Sanders said “yes.”

Yes, is the answer,” said one Sanders associate who helped with the senator’s previous bid, in response to a question about whether the Independent senator from Vermont had begun to think about another run.

“He thinks he’s earned the right to run again, and he believes if he would have been the [Democratic] candidate he would have won against Trump.”
The source also suggested that Sanders is making his plans with other candidates in mind.

“The last thing he’s going to do is step aside and let Joe Biden take it,” the Sanders associate said.

Granted, a bullishit affirmation by some unnamed associate borders on fake news. I get it. You can thank The Hill for that. But I wanted to make a more salient point, one that adheres to the actuarial laws of life expectancy and mathematics.

In 4 years from now, Mr. Sanders is more likely to be dead, than picking out a campaign manager for another failed Presidential run. According to recent statistics, the life expectancy for American males is 78.7475. By 2020, Mr. Sanders would’ve surpassed the expected expectancy for a man living in America — placing his chances of success at exactly zero.

Please do not argue with math, it just makes you look like hairless gorillas.

When will you racist homophobes learn? Here’s the heart and soul of Canada South, Minnesota, issuing transgender toolkits, banning the words ‘boys and girls’ and ‘Prom Kings and Queens’ — in order to protect the children from being bullied. And, here, at iBankCoin, home of the fucking racist brownshirts, all of you closet faggots are protesting.

Why?

Do you hate people who enjoy the company of its own gender? Do you not believe in science?

See, Bill Nye was right when he said, ‘gender is on a spectrum,’ you fucking faggots.

For years, I’ve been addressing my readers as ‘the reader class’ or ‘small filthy plebs’ or ‘charwallahs’ as to avoid the very sensitive topic of gender. See, unlike most of you nazis, uneducated and despicable savages who live amongst the backwoods in the confederacy, I grew up in a very diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn, where transgenders were welcomed with open arms. A typical weekend in East Flatbush, Brooklyn included dancing and singing from all of the local transgenders, who mixed and mingled with the very nice and genteel Jamaican Americans — who, as you know, are very tolerant to homosexual activities.

Some of my more animalistic friends, who eschewed these street performers because of their own ignorance, were cast out into the cold and shot to death by those of us who were advanced and tolerant of the gender spectrum.

Here’s a sexist republican politician and some Faux News anchor criticizing the new progressive ‘transgender toolkits’ being issued in Minnesota. I hope they too get cast into the cold and shot to death for their intolerance.

Mr. Insider himself, Pat Buchanan, former opposition researcher for the now legendary Richard ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon, went on Hannity and incredulously declared “Trump is heading for a ‘Saturday Night Massacre‘”, a term used to describe Nixon’s firing of his AG and Deputy AG — after they refused to shut down the Special Prosecutor, who was investigating the harmless act of spying on shitlibs at the Watergate Hotel. Compared to the sort of spying Obama and Hillary benefitted from this last election cycle, Richard Archibald Nixon’s actions were child’s play.

Because Trump cannot shit-can Mueller and Sessions has recused himself, only Rosenstein can fire him. But he will not fire a god damned person — because he’s part of the problem. Ultimately, these chess pieces put in place by deep state shills will annihilate Trump and his family, sending them all to Russian gulags. Trump’s fatal mistake was trusting Senator Sessions, who was, without a doubt, part of the olde boys club — swimming around naked with each other in the Senate pool room.

The Donald had a good run and certainly gave it the old college try — but now it’s time for him and his family to live inside dank prison cells — absconding with their fortunes — which will be turned over to deserving people at auction.

The minute Trump goes after Mueller and his AG and Deputy AG quit, expect impeachment proceedings to begin in earnest. After Trump is impeached, President “Shock’Em Straight’ Pence will get in line with neocon war schemes — earning him widespread support and adoration from faggots like Bill Kristol and Joe Scarborough. The sad part, at least for democrats, is that they’ll still lose elections until their party disbands and reorganizes as a fringe cult group — even after Trump is sentenced to death — because their agenda of a genderless society is fucking retarded and everyone knows it.

Do any non Trump supporters find it egregious that the President is under investigation immediately upon taking office? How, in any way or manner, is this legitimate? I get that you’re entranced by the lesbian Maddow and Bill Kristol and Morning Joe — but has it ever occurred to you that the claims against Russia might be a way to open an investigation to take down Trump — for things that aren’t even related to Russia?

Trust me when I tell you, if you gave me unlimited resources and lawyers, I’d find something corrupt about all of you too. The Mueller investigation isn’t about stopping Russia, but Trump.

Here’s Alan Dershowitz discussing this topic, comparing it to Stalin’s Soviet Union.

“You give a prosecutor one goal, you give him a lot of money, and give him a lot of lawyers, it’s unlikely he’s gonna want to come away with nothing […] They’re determined to get that white whale.”