Posted on 10/04/2017 5:20:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.
The tensions came to a head around the time President Donald Trump delivered a politicized speech in late July to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization Tillerson once led, the officials said.
Just days earlier, Tillerson had openly disparaged the president, referring to him as a moron, after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon with members of Trumps national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials familiar with the incident.
While it's unclear if he was aware of the incident, Vice President Mike Pence counseled Tillerson, who is fourth in line to the presidency, on ways to ease tensions with Trump, and other top administration officials urged him to remain in the job at least until the end of the year, officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
“Why have so many people who are not on board with Trump’s agenda...”
Why do these people think we elected Trump, and his agenda, just so they could slip in and implement their own private agenda?
Remember, Reagan put a lot of liberals around himself too, including Howard Baker, Ken Duberstein, Michael Deaver, James Baker, III. Ed Meese was one of the fairly few voices of conservatism.
Hugh Hewitt just had on a newsbabe, didn’t catch her name. She said according to someone in the room, he not only called him a moron, but an effing moron.
I don’t blame you if you keep waiting but she was pretty definite. :)
Tillerson is too much of a mature professional for such as this.
“Why do these people think we elected Trump, and his agenda, just so they could slip in and implement their own private agenda?”.....
You answered your own question. Trump needs to take a “time out” and go back and see who is on his team and who is NOT. He knows how to say “You’re fired!”
He cleaned out the 7th Floor of the State Department which is where all the ultimate power brokers at State dwelt.
Four pissed off women that wrote that article...Probably have pussy hats
“...according to multiple senior officials...”
NBC could have just made this up.
Tillerson can just go home for all I care and leave an open position for someone who wants to do the job.
Nikos1121 rule #1. Be leery of any article that has more than one author, in fact the BS meter goes up exponentially with each added author.
Yes, we know how handy they are concerning exploding pickup trucks, eh?
No kidding!
It's NBC. Easy to imagine a human centipede.
4 times the normal fake news!
not sure why he’s still there...Tillerson called Islam a “great” religion back in January.
[Lies from nbc.]
Well, they GOTTA keep the Brian Williams tradition going....
Liars lie. That is what they do.
I think there needs to be a realization there isn’t a LARGE POOL of people to choose from who have America’s best interests in mind (meaning, non-globalist, personal walled-house compound kingdom builders) and are qualified for such posts.
Does anyone disagree? If there is a large pool of such folks, name them.
I don’t know why Trump picked him. How dare he say that about President Trump.
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