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From Rex Tillerson to Hope Hicks, four top administration officials left in three weeks

By Emily Jashinsky
Published March 13, 2018 4:48pm ET
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From Rex Tillerson to Hope Hicks, four top administration officials left in three weeks
With high-level departures in three weeks — Rex Tillerson, Hope Hicks and Gary Cohn — how would any administration cope with such a rapid and dramatic stream of change? | AP Photos

On the afternoon of Feb. 27, news broke that deputy communications director Josh Raffel, a critical White House gatekeeper, was resigning from his post to return to the private sector. One day later, communications director Hope Hicks announced her resignation as well. The following week, it was President Trump’s top economic adviser Gary Cohn who announced his departure.

By March 13, Trump had fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

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