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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAngry Rex Tillerson says Kushner hijacked U. S. foreign policy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rex-tillerson-jared-kushner-hijacked-us-foreign-policy-angry-former-secretary-of-state-says?source=twitter&via=desktop"Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claims the State Department was kept in the dark about key U.S. foreign-policy decisions during his time in the Trump administration because the presidents son-in-law had effectively set up his own shadow operation.
Jared Kushner was privately working on strategic partnerships with foreign countries and meeting discreetly with world leaders outside the formal structures of the U.S. government, according to Tillerson, who told the House Foreign Affairs Committee behind closed doors last month that he was left angry by one situation in particular. Because Kushner at times went around Tillerson and his staff, the State Department was not able to efficiently manage U.S. diplomacy. "
madaboutharry
(40,216 posts)who thinks he is a King and acts like a dictator.
2020 is the only chance we have to save this country.
Baitball Blogger
(46,750 posts)Especially since our elections can be rigged.
2naSalit
(86,691 posts)and his spouse will help him circumvent the brothers and husbandad to take it all from them when they succeed in gaining full dictatorship. All who have criticized them will suffer thereafter.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)in an attempt to save his own miserable ass.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Democrats because he's, well, Tillerson.
The fact remains, however, that he's an engineer who rose to run Exxon/Mobil. How he ran it may be argued, but he never went bankrupt, adequately dealt with crises, and fulfilled his duties as the boss.
Running one of the largest worldwide operations on the planet might be considered at one qualification for SoS. At least he can read a map, a balance sheet, and a prospectus, unlike his boss. He has also curried respect and favor with many world leaders.
Now we have Kushner, who inherited a business and married into another. The business was a bit tarnished by his father's time in jail, and later by his making his bones by overpaying for a building in the middle of a market downturn. A billion dollar timing mistake.
Kushner, working behind the back of the SoS?
Where is the bottom?