Some of you dear readers may have heard news that Trump's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is purported to have called Trump a "moron" after a recent Pentagon (military!) meeting with the president. And Tillerson has't made any real effort to go out of his way and flat-out deny it.
But The Gadfly found this view by GOP Senator Bob Corker kind of bone-chilling. You need to watch it, then read the transcript below.
.@SenBobCorker: "I think Sec. Tillerson, Sec. Mattis and Chief of Staff Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos." pic.twitter.com/NjuRX59s6A— CSPAN (@cspan) October 4, 2017
CORKER: I don’t talk about private conversations with anyone. Inappropriately I don’t, anyway. I think Secretary Tillerson, [Defense] Secretary [Jim] Mattis and [White House] Chief of Staff [John] Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos, and I support them very much. And I don't know what he may have said after the briefing. I watch from — I mean, look, I see what's happening here. I deal with people throughout the administration, and [it] from my perspective is an incredibly frustrating place where, as I watch, okay — and I can watch very closely on many occasions — I mean, you know, he ends up not being supported in the way that I would hope a secretary of state would be supported. And that’s just from my vantage point. But I've never — you know, I have no knowledge of the comments or anything else. I think he's in a very trying situation, trying to solve many of the world's problems a lot of times without the kind of support and help that I'd like to see him have.
Q: Did he ever think about resigning at any point?
CORKER: I can’t get into that.
Q: When you say that Tillerson, Mattis and Kelly are separating this country from chaos, do you mean from the president’s chaos?
CORKER: Well, it’s just they act in a very — they work very well together to make sure that the policies we put forth around the world are sound and coherent. There are other people within the administration, in my belief, that don’t. Okay? I’m sorry. You know, I hope they stay because they’re valuable to the national security of our nation, they’re valuable to us putting forth good policies, they’re very valuable as it relates to our citizens feeling safe and secure, and I hope he’s here for a very long time.
Tillerson, Mattis and Kelly "separate this country from chaos."
Pssssst! dear readers . . . if you haven't figured it out yet, "chaos" is their codename for this clown:
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Basically what Corker was saying there in defense of Tillerson was that yeah, we all know Trump is a fucking moron and dangerously incompetent. But as long as more serious adults like Rex Tillerson, Jim Mattis and John Kelly are there to take turns changing Little Donnie's diaper, as well as expertly handling the nation's affairs with the rest of the world with some semblance of sanity, then we'll probably -- mostly -- hopefully? all come out of this alive.
Comforting thoughts huh? . . . . . .
----TFG
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