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An uneasy tenure: how Tillerson found himself cut out by Kushner
LBN thread: Tillerson told House panel that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner left him in the dark on conversations
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Source: Reuters
Politics
June 27, 2019 / 1:04 PM / Updated an hour ago
An uneasy tenure: how Tillerson found himself cut out by Kushner
Patricia Zengerle, Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In one of the most awkward moments of his time as U.S. secretary of state, Rex Tillerson realized his Mexican counterpart was in Washington only when he walked into a restaurant and found him dining with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
On another occasion, neither Tillerson nor Jim Mattis, who was then secretary of defense, knew Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates planned to blockade their regional rival Qatar even though Kushner and another Trump adviser, Steve Bannon, had been told about it at a secret dinner with their governments.
Tillerson recounted the embarrassing incidents in a seven-hour closed-door interview with leaders of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee last month.
Trump fired Tillerson in March 2018 after months of friction and on Twitter called him lazy and “dumb as a rock.”
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June 27, 2019 / 1:04 PM / Updated an hour ago
An uneasy tenure: how Tillerson found himself cut out by Kushner
Patricia Zengerle, Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In one of the most awkward moments of his time as U.S. secretary of state, Rex Tillerson realized his Mexican counterpart was in Washington only when he walked into a restaurant and found him dining with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
On another occasion, neither Tillerson nor Jim Mattis, who was then secretary of defense, knew Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates planned to blockade their regional rival Qatar even though Kushner and another Trump adviser, Steve Bannon, had been told about it at a secret dinner with their governments.
Tillerson recounted the embarrassing incidents in a seven-hour closed-door interview with leaders of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee last month.
Trump fired Tillerson in March 2018 after months of friction and on Twitter called him lazy and “dumb as a rock.”
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-diplomacy-tillerson/an-uneasy-tenure-how-tillerson-found-himself-cut-out-by-kushner-idUSKCN1TS2MS
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Source: Washington Post
Rex Tillerson vents about Jared Kushner’s secret dealings with foreign leaders
By John Hudson and Josh Dawsey
June 27 at 2:42 PM
In newly disclosed testimony, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, operated independently with powerful leaders around the world without coordination with the State Department, leaving Tillerson out of the loop and in the dark on emerging U.S. policies and simmering geopolitical crises.
In a transcript of his testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tillerson also described the challenge of briefing a president who does not read briefing papers and often got distracted by peripheral topics, noting he had to keep his message short and focus on a single topic.
“I learned to be much more concise with what I wanted to bring in front of him,” Tillerson told the House panel during a seven-hour session in May.
He stood by his previous characterization that Trump does not dive deep into details and said he learned not to give the president articles or long memos. “That’s just not what he was going to do,” he said.
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By John Hudson and Josh Dawsey
June 27 at 2:42 PM
In newly disclosed testimony, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, operated independently with powerful leaders around the world without coordination with the State Department, leaving Tillerson out of the loop and in the dark on emerging U.S. policies and simmering geopolitical crises.
In a transcript of his testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tillerson also described the challenge of briefing a president who does not read briefing papers and often got distracted by peripheral topics, noting he had to keep his message short and focus on a single topic.
“I learned to be much more concise with what I wanted to bring in front of him,” Tillerson told the House panel during a seven-hour session in May.
He stood by his previous characterization that Trump does not dive deep into details and said he learned not to give the president articles or long memos. “That’s just not what he was going to do,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tillerson-jared-kushner-left-him-in-the-dark-on-conversations-with-foreign-nations/2019/06/27/c877a780-64c8-43d5-8567-d4cb2c9b948b_story.html
