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Why President Donald Trump is right to purge his Cabinet?

Having sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, President Donald Trump has signalled that other heads could be meant for the guillotine. Perhaps as many as nine. Cabinet massacres of that scale are usually a sign of instability, even failing leadership. It wasn’t Jimmy Carter’s Crisis of Confidence speech in 1979 that destroyed his credibility so much as the mass Cabinet firing that followed it.

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