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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 4, 2017, 02:18 PM Mar 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson largely disappears in the Trump Cabinet

WASHINGTON — More than a month after he became America's top diplomat, Rex Tillerson is like no other modern secretary of State: He's largely invisible.

He has given no media interviews and has not held a single news conference. He has made two brief trips abroad — and was overshadowed both times by other Cabinet officials. His news releases are chiefly independence day greetings to other nations.

The White House blocked him from appointing his choice for a deputy, so he still has none. Dozens of assistant secretary positions, the diplomats who head bureaus for specific regions and issues, also are unfilled.

Tillerson only occasionally meets President Donald Trump or his staff at the White House, and he has been conspicuously absent from key meetings and conversations with foreign leaders.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-largely-disappears-in-the-trump-cabinet/ar-AAnN2HZ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson largely disappears in the Trump Cabinet (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 OP
well, he has to put in his 40 hours a week running Exxon/Mobil spanone Mar 2017 #1
He's doing exactly what Putin wants, nothing. ffr Mar 2017 #2
Bannon and Kushner are in charge. dalton99a Mar 2017 #3

ffr

(22,670 posts)
2. He's doing exactly what Putin wants, nothing.
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 03:17 PM
Mar 2017

Putin winning.

Tillerson will get a huge payout from all this after the United States is divided up amongst tRump's foreign allies, namely Putin's oligarchs.

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