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Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump’s Secretary of State (Big Oil Vapors Alert!)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2016-12-04

Posted on 12/04/2016 12:57:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

President-elect widens circle of candidates for top diplomatic job and will interview more prospects

WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is widening the circle of candidates for secretary of state and will interview more prospects this week, transition officials said, a sign that after multiple meetings with high-profile hopefuls he still isn’t sold on who he wants as the nation’s top diplomat.

Though Mr. Trump’s transition team said last...

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1 posted on 12/04/2016 12:57:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ten thousand liberal heads just exploded!


2 posted on 12/04/2016 12:59:59 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anyone but Romney or Patreus


3 posted on 12/04/2016 1:01:20 PM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: rbg81

There are two ExMo CEOs under consideration.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 1:01:43 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL...............Still not sick of winning!


5 posted on 12/04/2016 1:02:18 PM PST by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t Exxon the company that the feds and libs want to put thru the ringer about global warming? Saying Exxon knew the risks and didn’t tell the world. Pure BS of course.


6 posted on 12/04/2016 1:03:46 PM PST by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank God no one is talking about Romney anymore.


7 posted on 12/04/2016 1:04:22 PM PST by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He said he would get top people from private sector.

Surprised he hasn’t picked one, yet.

Exxon is one of the largest institutions in private business, in the world.

Oil business is politically sensitive. I would expect the guy would be good at State.


8 posted on 12/04/2016 1:04:41 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would definitely like to see Lee Raymond under consideration.


9 posted on 12/04/2016 1:05:11 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump is an out of the box manager.

That’s a good thang.


10 posted on 12/04/2016 1:06:26 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL.

Oh, Trump, I love ya.

What if he just appointed HIMSELF as SecState?

With all deference to him, I say this is one of the toughest cabinet spots to fill. The face of a President’s foreign policy is SecState. Hitlery was terrible.

Trump, I hope and trust, will make a good choice on this spot.


11 posted on 12/04/2016 1:07:01 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It makes a lot of sense right now, as the changes in the energy industry are driving geopolitical changes all around the world.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 1:09:11 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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13 posted on 12/04/2016 1:09:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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Wouldn’t that be good. Send him down to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, And all the other OPEC Shiite holes and tell them, “thanks, but we’ll get our own oil. Oh, and Saudi Arabia, you’re now on the list of nations that sponsor Islamic terrorism finally”


14 posted on 12/04/2016 1:16:42 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: truth_seeker
Exxon people are tough and smart.
I always liked their corporate personality, ie the people.
And realistically, foreign policy has been about oil since the early 1900’s.
So Mr. Trump can cut through all the middlemen and lackeys and bullsht and get something done.
My choice is still Mr. Bolton.
TWB
15 posted on 12/04/2016 1:16:53 PM PST by TWhiteBear
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SOS is an important role to get filled, but numbers under consideration are becoming a punch line. Seriously.

Dismantle that department and clean it out from what it has become.

Anybody who can fullfil the dang job description, as Trump wants it performed, along with a phone and a pen and a functioning secretary should do the job just fine, for Trump.

State has obviously become a collosus.


16 posted on 12/04/2016 1:19:30 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Another CFR member takes a seat at the table.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 1:27:21 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why State? He wouldn’t know the tricks of those crafty diplomats and bureaucrats


18 posted on 12/04/2016 1:31:40 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hah! What a hoot. Glad he’s looking outside the norm.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 1:31:57 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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When they grilled exxon execs I just couldn’t understand how these intelligent business men were allowing these idiot rat poiticians rake them over the coals


20 posted on 12/04/2016 1:32:19 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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