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Tillerson hasn’t denied saying it. he deflected the question. in this day and age there’s a good chance there is a recording of it on someone’s phone just waiting for him to deny it.
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lost in space wrote:
My opinion of Tillerson just went up. 'Course since it started out below zero . . .
I'm not sure my opinion went up. If he did call Trump a moron (and I suspect it's probably true), denying it and singing his praises now sounds a lot like desperate bootlicking.
Edit:
Reading the coverage, I see that Tillerson pointedly refused to deny calling him a moron (and another reporter said the actual phrase he used to describe Trump was "
moron")
So, yeah. My boss is a f-in moron. But I'm not ready to give up on my job yet.
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My opinion on Tillerson hasn't changed a bit - you don't get to the top position of the biggest company in the world by being an idiot. And any idiot can see that Trump is a moron!
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Highly decorated career foreign service officer Eric Edelman,
today:
“The press appearance was the most humiliating, degrading performance by a secretary of state that I have seen in my lifetime. He was clearly ordered by the White House to go out and lavish slavish praise on the president.”
This guy served under Bush 2 and was an advisor to Romney during his run.
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hal wrote:
My opinion on Tillerson hasn't changed a bit - you don't get to the top position of the biggest company in the world by being an idiot. And any idiot can see that Trump is a moron!
Personally, I'm now in the awkward position of having a teeny tiny glimmer of respect for Rex Tillerson that I didn't have before.
You'd think that the cowardice and ass-licking that led to that press-conference would more than offset it, but no.
Teeny tiny glimmer.
Still there.
I'm not sure what to do with this feeling.
It's making me very uncomfortable.
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He's been at odds with Trump since his confirmation hearings where he acknowledged climate change.
I think he's the least powerful SoS in a generation since Trump doesn't mind undercutting him.
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....so now there is Rex....appeal......???
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