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Posted on 10/06/2017 8:47:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, abruptly scrapped plans to travel with President Donald Trump on Wednesday so he could try to contain his boss’s fury and manage the fallout from new revelations about tensions between the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to six senior administration officials.
Kelly summoned Tillerson, and their ally Defense Secretary James Mattis, to the White House, where the three of them huddled to discuss a path forward, according to three administration officials. The White House downplayed Kelly's decision to stay in Washington, saying he did so to manage day-to-day operations.
Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, was fuming in Phoenix, where he was traveling, seven officials told NBC News. He and Tillerson spoke on the phone before the secretary’s public appearance on Wednesday morning.
Pence was incensed upon learning from the NBC report that Tillerson’s top spokesman had said he once privately questioned the value of Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Officials said the spokesman, R.C. Hammond, fabricated an anecdote that Pence had asked Tillerson in a meeting whether Haley, who is seen as a possible successor to Tillerson, is helpful or harmful to the administration.
NBC reported Wednesday that Tillerson had threatened to resign in July after a series of clashes with the president, at one point venting his frustrations among his colleagues by calling the president a "moron," according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the matter at the time.
Four senior administration officials said Trump first learned on Wednesday that Tillerson had disparaged him after a July 20 national security meeting at the Pentagon. Trump vented to Kelly Wednesday morning, leading Kelly to scrap plans to travel with the president to Las Vegas to meet with victims
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“Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, was fuming in Phoenix, where he was traveling, seven officials told NBC News.” And not one of the seven names is provided, nor is there any indication of just what “officials” means. Could be officials of the NFL. Or perhaps SEIU, or even the CPUSA.
Note the “news” source. Probably didn’t happen at all.
This is what Tillerson responded to yesterday.
NAME NAMES OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Written in typical “Fairy tale” style.
Fake news.
More likely, just as with Kelly the other day, there may be concern with the phones (again) being compromised.
Mostly likely by our pals at the FBI.
hahahah. This is so stupid. Girls aren’t running the country. Someone can say, Trump you’re an F’ing moron and then 20 minutes later they’re running jokes again. This is hilarious, they really think they have Trump on the ropes. I suspect even if he were called a moron he’d probably give it back twice as hard and in the end they’d come up with a policy. I heard a reporter yesterday try a “gotcha” on Sanders because there was a lot of “debate” over the Iran policy. He seemed shocked that not everyone agreed. It’s clear that none of these people have ever done anything in the real world.
Four nbc liars inventing more bullshit.
He said he wasn’t going to engage in this crap. In other words, the “feed me” media went away hungry.
the establishment pukes just will not give up trying to fragment the Trump admin. Trump needs to take control of those who work for him or he’ll likely be history if he doesn’t.
Then I guess Trump and Tillerson must be having a Tea Party today,
It takes 4 adults to write this story?
Stopped reading at the byline.
“And it took 4 reporters to write this....”
They think multiple writers will make this crappola more believable.
I think they’re trying to play a shell game in case somebody sues for defamation. No way it takes four people to excrete these blurbs.
NBC = BS.
I’d wager that the “scrapped trip” had more to do with the possible compromised phone.....the MSM doesn’t want to admit that hackers are trying to compromise Trump vs. help him....
The great journalists of our era: Dan Rather, Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell
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