You Will Anyway: Tillerson Tempest

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Tillerson Tempest - Part Whatever

Good one, Preet.

Wasn't just moron - it was fucking moron? Tillerson never actually denied that he called Trump a moron, and NBC is now reporting that further infuriated Dotard J. Kelly's really got a handle on those leaks.

Tillerson didn’t deny having questioned the president’s intellectual capacities. But he insisted that he wasn’t going anywhere either, much to the chagrin of three White House officials who vented to The Daily Beast in real time about how they wished he would “just leave,” as one put it. “In a perfect world” he would have quit right then and there, another said.

Daily Beast

In a perfect world, the moron wouldn't be president.

Tillerson struggled in his tenure at Foggy Bottom, doesn’t have many fans in Trump’s inner circle, and has been widely viewed with skepticism among Trump loyalists.

“People in [the White House] who are loyal to the president think Rex Tillerson hates [Trump],” one White House official told The Daily Beast.

And why wouldn't he?

State Department spokesman R.C. Hammond did not respond to a request for comment on this story.

Oh, hell no. He's already packed his belongings and hit the road. Bet.

But despite Trump’s displeasure, Tillerson appears to have a hold on his gig, for now. The president does not have the immediate desire to see yet more turnover in his young administration, or to see coverage painting a Tillerson ouster as evidence of chaos in his ranks, according to a White House official. And Republicans in the Senate have all but begged Trump to keep him on board.

Yes, but it's a bur under his saddle now. And it's still in the news. That will be a problem.

“I think Secretary Tillerson, [Defense] Secretary [James] Mattis and Chief of Staff [John] Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) said on Wednesday. “I support them very much.”

And we know what Trump thinks of Corker. (10/8 update on that.)

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

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