FACTBOX-Trump turnover: Tillerson would be latest to leave administration

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Thu, 30 Nov 2017 - 05:58 GMT

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confer during a working lunch with African leaders during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confer during a working lunch with African leaders during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Nov 30 (Reuters) - The revolving door at the Trump White
House was ready to spin again as senior administration officials
said on Thursday there is a plan to replace U.S. Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike
Pompeo within weeks.

The following is a partial list of officials who have been
fired or have left the administration in the 10 months since
President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, as well as people
who were nominated by Trump for a position but did not take the
job:

* Stephen Bannon - Trump's chief strategist, who had been a
driving force behind the president's anti-globalization and
pro-nationalist agenda that helped propel him to election
victory, was fired by Trump in mid-August. He had repeatedly
clashed with more moderate factions in the White House.


* Philip Bilden - a private equity executive and former
military intelligence officer picked by Trump for secretary of
the Navy, withdrew from consideration in February because of
government conflict-of-interest rules.

* James Comey - the Federal Bureau of Investigation
director, who was leading a probe into possible collusion
between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia to
influence the election outcome, was fired by Trump in May.


Richard Cordray - the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's
first director resigned on Nov. 24. Trump designated White House
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as acting director, but Cordray
named a deputy director as his replacement, triggering a
political and legal battle. Four days later, a federal court
ruled in Trump's favor.

* James Donovan - a Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker
who was nominated by Trump as deputy Treasury secretary,
withdrew his name in May.

* Michael Dubke - founder of Crossroads Media, resigned as
White House communications director in May.

* Michael Flynn - resigned in February as Trump's national
security adviser after disclosures that he had discussed U.S.
sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United
States before Trump took office and had misled Vice President
Mike Pence about the conversations.

* Mark Green - Trump's nominee for Army secretary withdrew
his name from consideration in May.

* Gerrit Lansing - White House chief digital officer,
stepped down in February after failing to pass an FBI background
check, according to Politico.

* Jason Miller - communications director for Trump's
transition team, who was named by the president-elect in
December as White House communications director, said days later
that he would not take the job.

* Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned
under pressure from Trump on Sept. 29 in an uproar over Price's
use of costly private charter planes for government business.


* Reince Priebus - the former chairman of the Republican
National Committee was replaced by John Kelly as Trump's chief
of staff in July. A confidant of the president said Trump had
lost confidence in Priebus after major legislative items failed
to be approved by Congress.

* Todd Ricketts - a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball
team and Trump's choice for deputy secretary of commerce,
withdrew from consideration in April.

* Anthony Scaramucci - the White House communications
director was fired by Trump in July after just 10 days on the
job after profanity-laced comments to The New Yorker magazine
were published.

* Walter Shaub - the head of the U.S. Office of Government
Ethics, who clashed with Trump and his administration, stepped
down in July before his five-year term was to end.

* Michael Short - senior White House assistant press
secretary, resigned in July.

* Sean Spicer - resigned as White House press secretary in
July, ending a turbulent tenure after Trump named Scaramucci as
White House communications director.

* Robin Townley - an aide to national security adviser
Flynn, was rejected in February after he was denied security
clearance to serve on the U.S. National Security Council,
according to Politico.

* Vincent Viola - an Army veteran and a former chairman of
the New York Mercantile Exchange, nominated by Trump to be
secretary of the Army, withdrew his name from consideration in
February.

* Katie Walsh - deputy White House chief of staff, was
transferred to the outside pro-Trump group America First
Policies in March, according to Politico.

* Caroline Wiles - Trump’s director of scheduling, resigned
in February after failing a background check, according to
Politico.

* Sally Yates - acting U.S. attorney general, was fired by
Trump in January after she ordered Justice Department lawyers
not to enforce Trump's immigration ban.

(Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by Jonathan Oatis
and Alistair Bell)

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