What?! No Rudy?

Why?

Giuliani, speaking to Fox News, said he had actually sent a letter withdrawing himself from consideration back on Nov. 29 but that the transition team had rejected it, saying they wanted to continue to keep him in the running for the State Department.

“I decided ... that the whole thing was becoming ... very difficult for the president-elect, and my desire to be in the Cabinet was great, but it wasn’t that great and he had a lot of terrific candidates,” Giuliani said in a phone call with Fox.

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He said he had been considered for other positions in the Cabinet but was not keen on a role other than State Department.

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“They’re down to the last two, three, four (candidates), so it made sense to ... get out of the way,” Giuliani said in the Fox interview.

  HuffPo

No, that makes no sense at all. What's the real reason? Did he get his feelings hurt because Donald didn't immediately choose him? Was he offered something else down the road? Did he not want to look like a loser when Donald chooses someone else? Or did he actually get the axe and this was how Donald allowed him to save face? Why?

Just reported on @CNN: Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson moving up the list as possible SOS. Rudy Giuliani told he will NOT be getting the job.

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) December 9, 2016

That's a slightly different slant.

So, Rudy won't be Secretary of State. Too bad.

P.S.

Have you forgotten who Rex Tillerson is?  Here's a reminder from 2014 courtesy of Forbes:

Sometimes, the hypocrisy expressed in real life is so sublimely rich that one could never hope to construct a similar scenario out of pure imagination. Meet Rex Tillerson, the CEO of oil and gas superstar ExxonMobil Corporation—the largest natural gas producer in these United States of America—and a newly emerging giant in the world of exquisite hypocrisy. A key and critical function of Mr. Tillerson’s day job is to do all he can to protect and nurture the process of hydraulic fracturing—aka ‘fracking’—so that his company can continue to rack in billions via the production and sale of natural gas.

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According to Tillerson, “This type of dysfunctional regulation is holding back the American economic recovery, growth, and global competitiveness.”

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Tillerson—ExxonMobil CEO and proud proponent of fracking as a key to both America’s and his company’s great energy future—has joined a lawsuit seeking to shut down a fracking project near Mr. and Mrs. Tillerson's Texas ranch.

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Making this all the more entertaining is the content of the lawsuit which, in an attempt to get rid of the [necessary] water tower, goes to great effort to lay out the problems experienced by those who are subjected to the fracking process—problems that Tillerson has always been quick to dismiss when his company picks a location that is not in his own neighborhood.

  Forbes

It's great, just not in his back yard.


P.P.S.

The Mad Twitter strikes again.

To be fair, Donald, your mouthpiece Kellyanne Conway did give them that impression.  Is this simple miscommunication, or are you guys determined to trip up the media so you can point out that the media are bad guys?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.