Posted on 07/24/2017 1:48:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may be considering resigning from his job as frustrations with the Trump administration may have him nearing the end of his rope.
People "familiar with Tillerson conversations with friends outside Washington" told CNN the mood in Foggy Bottom's Mahogany Row has grown increasingly dark in recent days, particularly since President Donald Trump gave an interview to The New York Times in which he publicly rebuked Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Tillerson and others are said to also be troubled by the turmoil at the White House, resulting in last week's shake up of Trump's legal team, the hiring of new communications director Anthony Scaramucci and the resignation of press secretary Sean Spicer.
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He ruined the Boys Scouts, why give him the opportunity to ruin the world.
Even the most loyal Trump supporter should be disgusted by his public airing of grievances of Sessions. It is unseemly and immature to say the least. End it.
Unless of course, Trump and Sessions are coordinating this publicity for their own internal reasons
Trump is an alum of the WWF so he knows the value of manufactured controversies and conflicts.
The Trump twitter cannon may not be as loose as some people are led to believe
Gossip rumor and innuendo
When ya got something real I’ll pay attention
Tillerson does not have any obligation to shoot down fake news. Why dignify it with a response?
And It would take up all of his time
I will offer $1 for the us news and world report.
5.56mm
Tillerson has yet to clean house at State. The anti-Israel Obama holdovers are still in place, and I assume many others are as well.
Drain the swamp/sewer ... or resign.
Fake news. According to the news, everyone is quitting Trump except Mulehead.
Castigating your subordinates in an interview with a media outlet that has worked ceaselessly to undermine you -- and which you refer to regularly as "the Failing New York Times" in your Twitter posts -- sounds more like a staged "castigation" that nobody should be taking seriously anyway.
How many times are we going to play the “they wouldn’t talk to fake news organizations” and then turn around have Trump give a massive interview to the NY Times?
That article was absolutely delicious....... thank you.
Unless it’s not what it seems, as I keep saying. And unless Sessions is not in on it. Which he is.
False news. It smells putrid. Get it off my shoe!
Well lets see..... Lets say your boss publicly threw one of your co-workers under the bus. Wouldn’t you be a bit concerned that you might be next?
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These are the senior posts at State. Start from the top. Observe how many of them are vacant. At the very top, these are mostly political appointments that should have been filled by now with Trump administration personnel. Lower down the chain, it's a mix of career and political posts. When you do find a job that is actually filled, note how many are "Acting" or, in many cases, are filled by a career person who has been there for years.
Draining the swamp is a fine slogan, but at some point, if you want to effect change, your own people need to take over. Personnel are policy. I assume Tillerson has a small cadre of political appointees in the Office of the Secretary, but below that level, there is simply no Trump Administration at State. The appointments haven't been made or, if made, have yet to be confirmed.
No one is home. It's now nine months after the election and six months after the Inauguration. The Trump Administration hasn't shown up yet. The next Democratic administration isn't going to have to worry about burrowed-in Republicans and a conservative underground at State. At the rate we're going, no Republicans will have gotten inside the building to begin with.
No. Just call it fake news!
From the article linked at post #44 of this thread:
"Trump and Tillerson have yet to nominate candidates to fill more than 83 senior-level positions and ambassadorships, and that's only a partial count. At the level of assistant secretary – the folks who actually manage day-to-day diplomacy – out of 22 positions, only two people have been nominated, and one confirmed. Empty offices include assistant secretaries for Near Eastern affairs, South Asian affairs, European and Eurasian affairs, Western Hemisphere affairs, East Asian and Pacific affairs, African affairs, political-military affairs, arms control, population, migration and refugees, democracy, human rights, labor and many more.
"One gap is especially ironic. Despite Trump's pre-election harping on the deaths in Libya in 2012, when a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi was attacked and the American ambassador killed, there's no assistant secretary for diplomatic security yet."
has always been anti-America. Tillerson must have known that going in.
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