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>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427053-pompeo-taps-elliott-abrams-as-state-department-venezuela-point-person

These fuckers just don't give up do they?

>https:// www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/politics/trump-wall-21-billion-dollars.html

Trump rejects Abrams as deputy secretary of state

Mr. Trump overruled his newly minted secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, and rejected the secretary's choice for his deputy at the department, two people briefed on the decision said Friday.

The deputy's job was denied for elliott abrams, a conservative who had served under President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush, deals a blow to Mr. Tillerson in his first week on the job. The rejection of Mr. Abrams leaves Mr. Tillerson without a sherpa to help guide the first-time government official around the State Department headquarters.

Mr. Trump had a productive meeting with Mr. Abrams on Tuesday, according to a White House official and a person close to Mr. Abrams. But after it took place, Mr. Trump learned of Mr. Abrams pointed criticisms of the president when he was running for president, the administration official said. Among those criticisms was a column headlined When You Can't Stand Your Candidate, which appeared in May 2016 in The Weekly Standard.