Rex Tillerson has too much integrity to simply spread rumors for the sake of spreading rumors. He is also very aware of laws and their impact after managing an international petroleum company. Laws were second nature to the CEO.
December 8, 2018
...The biting words came after Tillerson, (click here) in an appearance at a charity event in Houston, said their relationship soured over Trump's repeated demands that Tillerson do things that were illegal.
"So often, the president would say, 'Here's what I want you to do, and here's how I want you to do it,' " Tillerson said at a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, in his first public remarks about his truncated tenure since he was let go in March.
"And I would have to say to him, 'Mr President, I understand what you want to do. But you can't do it that way. It violates the law,' " he said.
As if to confirm how toxic their interactions had become, Trump praised Tillerson's successor, Mike Pompeo, and dismissed the abilities of Tillerson, who ran Exxon Mobil before stepping down to work for Trump....
In defense of Twitter, I doubt seriously the inventors ever intended it as a tool for politics. Twitter serves many people globally when nothing else is available. It has a noble purpose, it is just that politics seems to have tainted it's purpose.
But, I think Secretary Tillerson is correct in stating not so many words, Americans need to get serious about their country and not act on emotions of the moment. Some take history of the country too far and others simply like an alternate reality. Few seem to want to take the time to understand a subject before they render an opinion.
...saying Trump was elected using modern-day tools to tap into strong emotions, he added, "I will be honest with you. It troubles me that the American people seem to want to know so little about issues that they are satisfied with 128 characters.
"I don't want that to come across as a criticism of him. It's really a concern I have about us as Americans, and us as a society, and us as citizens."...
