Jake Tapper tweet with stunning State Dept statement on Tillerson's firing

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Wow. Tillerson had every intention of staying, did not speak to Trump about this, and is unaware of the reason for his firing.

[NCTraveler]

1. Trump is a coward.

At every turn.

Our Secretary of State was just fired by Putin.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep! Just his body language shows what a coward he is! n/t

[bdamomma]

12. body language??

does he (tRump) have his arms folded across his chest???

[RKP5637]

14. He sure gets in some bizarre positions for a world leader ... showing no confidence. n/t

[bdamomma]

15. well we all know he's

a effing coward he has no confidence that is why its all about him. Is he still eating junk food I hope that catches up with him.

[niyad]

38. according to a recent "report", he has given up on junk food, eating salads and soups

at the order of his doctor (didn't doc say he was in great health???)

[onetexan]

18. because he is no world leader, he is a farce,

that's been clear from the start when he was running, even when we did not know much about the russians meddling. Now that we do know the idiot is an illegitimate POTUS, he is even more of a disgrace.

[RKP5637]

24. And the ass has taken the worldview of the US down with him. He's disgusting!!! n/t

[erronis]

31. Constipation. Too much junk food.

You'd squirm too if you had a year's worth of crap stored in that bag. Especially if the Pute is poking you from behind.

What's that they say?

You're full of shit up to your eyeballs and the rest is toilet paper.

[RKP5637]

45. ...

[George II]

21. That's the sign that he either doesn't know what he's saying or...

....is flustered with nothing to say.

[machoneman]

43. I've also seen the folded arms many times now.

No psychologist here but well versed in body language as a former contract negotiator, trainer of sales people, etc.

The folded arms are a dead-giveaway of some number of things, but these incidents must be considered in the context of the where, why and when. The most glaring is when he does so in one-on-one meetings (WH, both are seated, facing the press corp). He's uneasy to almost to an extreme whereby he's nervous about press questions that he can't really anticipate. Meaning he can't control the situation and fears Stormy, firings, Mueller's investigations questions.

In other contexts, note that those mock WH meetings where maybe 10-12 Cabinet or WH staff are the only ones sitting around a large conference table. Never saw any video of folded arms. Now, some contrast. When I think it was Diana Feinstein sat right next to him (gun discussion) he did fold his arms and not just once. He was afraid of that big bad woman and perhaps other Democrats in that room.

He's no deal-maker if any even mediocre poker player can 'read' him so well!

[RKP5637]

46. When he announced his fire and furry or whatever against NK, I swear, he looked like

he was going to break some ribs he was hugging himself so much.

[Xipe Totec]

26. He speaks ge-latin nt

[barbtries]

34. i was going to post the same thing.

trump is such a coward. i don't think he's making a lot of friends these days.

[blogslut]

2. He contradicted big boy one too many times

Sad!

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, he said it the way it is. Trump is a moron! n/t

[poboy2]

3. WOW- no really, this is really an off the chain, wild statement.

"The Secretary had every intention of staying".

"did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason"

UNHEARD OF at this level.

[lunasun]

4. Surprised trump didn't fire him in the middle of a conference tilledson was at like trump did Comey

[George II]

22. I don't know exactly where, but he's overseas on a week-long trip.

Like Comey, he got fired while on the road.

[machoneman]

44. Note that Tillerson KNEW it was coming. Note he was 'sick' in Turkey...

last week and cancelled some meetings. Yeah, he was sick alright. Sick of his fair-haired boy toy Trumpenstiltskins!

[MFM008]

5. Distraction

Against the coming gop loss in PA.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Goldstein's going to be in trouble.

[Skittles]

48. he got fired

[greatauntoftriplets]

49. I heard.

That seems to be what happens when you tell the truth these days. What a shame.

[highplainsdem]

7. Chris Hayes tweet about this statement:

Link to tweet

WH saying Tillerson was informed Friday, but State Dept statement today seems to indicate he just found out today. Which *really* makes one wonder about the role of the Russia statement yesterday.

[poboy2]

9. definitely. -nt

[Delphinus]

10. My thinking too.

Wow.

But didn't he fire Comey like this too?

[bdamomma]

13. Trump

thinks this is his own Apprentice show, what an ass he is. What makes it worse the freaking repigs have blinders on and won't even uphold their Constitutional obligations to the country. Enemies of the state all of them.

[Grammy23]

29. Yes. When the number of members of Congress who are in on this debacle gets revealed...

(And it will be revealed) it will be staggering. The people of this country are in for a rude awakening if they think the folks in Congress are there representing them. Nice concept but that ship sailed a long time ago.

[erronis]

32. And it's naive of us to think there aren't some dems on the payroll.

And it would play against our sense of fairness and liberalism to pretend that we are all saints.

[Grammy23]

35. Yes. I stand by my statement when the NUMBER is revealed

we will be surprised. I guess the bigger surprise will be which parties are in the mix. Some Dems have probably sold us down the river, too. Sad to say. I just wish this ugly chapter in our history would end already. I am worn to a nub with the nagging feeling that we’re being lied to and robbed of everything every.single.day. And no one is putting a stop to it. Or at least informing us of what this is all about. We wait for dribs and drabs from Rachel Maddow and the latest thing from David Corn (and others) tying to figure this out and feeling more and more helpless and betrayed. I still hold out hope that there are enough honest people left that this debacle will end favorably and soon. I am not holding my breath but trying to fan the flames of a spark of hope.

[yardwork]

16. Very suspicious timing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. I don't doubt WH didn't inform Tillerson, but he knew "something was up"

He had that mysterious brief illness on his Kenya trip.

Then he came back a day early to deal with something like 'important work' in Washington.

[erronis]

33. I'm sure he felt the daggers pointed at his back

Of course, his back. Dump is way too cowardly to have a nice sit-down conversation about pluses and minuses, faults and strengths before handing the prepared pink slip.

I wonder when Dump gets his pink slip from Pute. Will it be slipped into a can of diet coke? Or will Pute just poison all the fast food around merdelago?

[riversedge]

28. Something really spooked Nunes and the Repugs on the Intell committee to all of a sudden

pull the committee work. too quick even if talking about it for a while. And leaving the Dems out completely was disgraceful.

[Freethinker65]

17. Tillerson was kept out of the loop for a reason. Easier to kill diplomacy department to remake it

State Department will now be about threatening nations unfavorable to Trump and his pals. No diplomacy, subtlety, negotiating skills, nor geographic political strategic knowledge is needed to work for the Trump State Department.

[pangaia]

25. Yeah, i am sorry to say, u r rite,

[frogmarch]

19. trump shot him in the back...oh, wait

trump had someone else shoot him in the back.

[dalton99a]

23. Trump is too cowardly to fire people face to face.

It's always behind their back

(Unlike the "You're Fired" line he read from the script written for him on his bullshit TV show)

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Since we know chief traitor is the biggest crybaby alive who has NEVER fired anyone

face to face, oh fuck this

if you support trump you are my enemy

[zentrum]

30. Tillerson

…the aider and abettor of oil oligarchs deserves everything that happens to him, after signing on to help Exxon Mobile via his job as SOC.

Perfect swamp denizen.

[niyad]

39. a most excellent point.

[alfredo]

36. Was the firing at the insistence of Putin?

[BigmanPigman]

37. Moscow/Putin chose Tillerson so what was the reason

for Putin wanting him fired? Mueller has tapes of Carter Page calling Nunes from Moscow during the transition telling him that Tillerson would be the new Sec of State before it was announced here. Jack Kingsten was also alerted in the conversations, emails, etc.

[padah513]

40. I may be wrong

But wasn't Michael Isikoff and David Corn's book due out today? Not watching much news this morning now afternoon, but haven't heard any mention of the book during what little news I have seen. Trump is notorious for pulling a squirrel move and this feels kind of preemptive.

[poboy2]

47. worth consideration. -nt

[duforsure]

41. Moron fires Tillerson

Morons don't need any stinking reasons. They just do stupid things impulsively.

[mountain grammy]

42. President chickenshit.