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kpete

(71,983 posts) Wed May 16, 2018, 04:01 PM May 2018

Rex Tillerson, unplugged

@PeterAlexander

Rex Tillerson, unplugged, at VMI Commencement:
"If our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom."

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Rex Tillerson, unplugged (Original Post) kpete May 2018 OP

I'll give Tillerson credit for that and calling trump "a fking Moron." Hoyt May 2018 #1

Wow, no wonder he was fired unceremoniously. Bluepinky May 2018 #2

Okay, maybe I hold a grudge matt819 May 2018 #3

CNN reporter has two noteworthy comments about Tillerson's State Department. yallerdawg May 2018 #4

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. I'll give Tillerson credit for that and calling trump "a fking Moron."

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Wed May 16, 2018, 04:04 PM

May 2018

Bluepinky

(2,268 posts)

2. Wow, no wonder he was fired unceremoniously.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed May 16, 2018, 04:08 PM

May 2018

It’s good he’s speaking out now, he wouldn’t have lasted a day with Trump if he had spoken out when he was SOS. I’m glad he refused to say he never called Trump a moron, it’s a piece of integrity he can cling to.