Tillerson told lawmakers Putin was more prepared than Trump for meeting: report

[mystery-ak]

Tillerson told lawmakers Putin was more prepared than Trump for meeting: report
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 05/23/19 07:44 AM EDT

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told lawmakers this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin was more prepared for a key meeting in Germany than President Trump, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

U.S. officials reportedly expected a short meeting, but the discussion turned into a two-hour session covering several key geopolitical issues.

“We spent a lot of time in the conversation talking about how Putin seized every opportunity to push what he wanted,” a House Foreign Affairs Committee aide told the Post. “There was a discrepancy in preparation, and it created an unequal footing.”


Tillerson, who was fired in March 2018, spoke to a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the committee on Tuesday at the request of Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the panel's chairman.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445165-tillerson-told-lawmakers-putin-was-more-prepared-than-trump-for

[mystery-ak]

Trump fires back at 'dumb as a rock' Tillerson on Putin
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445171-trump-blasts-tillerson-after-he-told-lawmakers-putin-was-better

[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

Tillerson was CEO of Exxon.  Bob was head earth scientist at Exxon.  He says if Tillerson said Trump is a moron, then he is.  Bob supports Trump, so his saying this is new.  Bob said, knowing Tillerson, he would believe him rather than Trump on this.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

@mystery-ak

Tillerson was CEO of Exxon.  Bob was head earth scientist at Exxon.  He says if Tillerson said Trump is a moron, then he is.  Bob supports Trump, so his saying this is new.  Bob said, knowing Tillerson, he would believe him rather than Trump on this.

Except Tillerson didn't say "Trump is a moron".  He said that Putin was more prepared than was Trump, which is very different.  And whose fault was that, exactly?  From the article:

U.S. officials reportedly expected a short meeting, but the discussion turned into a more than two-hour session covering several key geopolitical issues.

So the underlings responsible for briefing the President were caught off guard by the scope of the meeting.  Given that, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Trump was less prepared than Putin in that regard.  Perhaps more important is that this was a discussion, without any binding commitments made by either side.  There's no Olympic scoring or medals being handed out, so Putin being better briefed than Trump ultimately didn't matter.

[aligncare]

More mud slinging. Not surprised, though.

What would be surprising is if the media actually covered Trump fairly, you know, report a few stories in the same slobbering way they reported on Obama—all positive, even down to reporting Obama’s bowel movements as ‘perfect’ creations.

[corbe]

Donald J. Trump
 âœ”  @realDonaldTrump 

Rex Tillerson, a man who is “dumb as a rock” and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secretary of State, made up a story (he got fired) that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany. I don’t think Putin would agree. Look how the U.S. is doing!

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6:29 AM - May 23, 2019

   Another hole in his 'I hire only the best people' theory BUT that doesn't top his insane rant yesterday about 'I don't do cover-ups'

Rebecca Ballhaus
 âœ”  @rebeccaballhaus 

Trump declared “I don’t do cover ups”—two weeks after his ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, began a 3-yr prison sentence for crimes including arranging hush payments to two women to stop them from talking about alleged affairs with Trump. Prosecutors say he did so at Trump’s direction.

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12:08 PM - May 22, 2019

[Chosen Daughter]

   Another hole in his 'I hire only the best people' theory BUT that doesn't top his insane rant yesterday about 'I don't do cover-ups'

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Donald J. Trump
 âœ”  @realDonaldTrump 

Rex Tillerson, a man who is “dumb as a rock” and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secretary of State, made up a story (he got fired) that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany. I don’t think Putin would agree. Look how the U.S. is doing!

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6:29 AM - May 23, 2019


He hasn't hired any that he doesn't want to fire also.  His business style is like trying on bad shoes. 

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Rebecca Ballhaus
 âœ”  @rebeccaballhaus 

Trump declared “I don’t do cover ups”—two weeks after his ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, began a 3-yr prison sentence for crimes including arranging hush payments to two women to stop them from talking about alleged affairs with Trump. Prosecutors say he did so at Trump’s direction.

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12:08 PM - May 22, 2019


No, obviously Cohen must have done that for himself.  Stupid guy.