Top candidate for Secretary of State, Exxon CEO, has strong ties to Russia
Rex Tillerson is the leading candidate according to a Trump transition official.
Click here for reuse options!Trump met Tillerson on Tuesday and may talk to him again over the weekend, the official said. Trump appears to be in the final days of deliberations over his top diplomat with an announcement possible next week.
Tillerson’s favored status was revealed as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani formally withdrew from consideration for secretary of state…
Should Tillerson be nominated, his business ties, too, will come under scrutiny. Exxon Mobil has operations in more than 50 countries and boasts that it explores for oil and natural gas on six continents.
In 2011, Exxon Mobil signed a deal with Rosneft, Russia’s largest state-owned oil company, for joint oil exploration and production. Since then, the companies have formed 10 joint ventures for projects in Russia.
In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Tillerson his nation’s Order of Friendship.
But U.S. sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Crimea cost Exxon Mobil dearly, forcing it to scrap some projects and costing it at least $1 billion in losses. Tillerson has been a vocal critic of the sanctions.
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35 responses to Top candidate for Secretary of State, Exxon CEO, has strong ties to Russia
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Shockupy WOM December 10th, 2016 at 13:34
The ascent of Tovarich Tillerson will only enhance the glory of the Putin Regime and the annexation of the United States of America! Special thanks to the #MAGA voters who joined the KKK and GRU in handing the nation over to Russia! За здоровье!
Hirightnow December 11th, 2016 at 19:21
Будем здоровы!
amersham1046 December 11th, 2016 at 20:35
да
mea_mark December 10th, 2016 at 13:48
Great, another possible reason to impeach.
Anomaly 100 December 10th, 2016 at 13:51
He picked him:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/309813-trump-picks-exxon-ceo-tillerson-for-secretary-of-state-report
whatthe46 December 10th, 2016 at 13:56
they, the EC needs to do their job. this is insane.
Larry Schmitt December 10th, 2016 at 15:08
But they won’t. Believing your wish will come true is what they call “magical thinking.”
whatthe46 December 10th, 2016 at 16:16
let me have it damnit!
Gina Bousquet December 11th, 2016 at 18:05
hahahaha
Loved the answer!
Anomaly 100 December 10th, 2016 at 15:12
Yup!
Larry Schmitt December 10th, 2016 at 15:08
Sorry, I can’t like that.
StoneyCurtisll December 10th, 2016 at 20:37
He still has to be confirmed buy the Russian,…er-ahh, I mean the Republican controlled senate.
Anomaly 100 December 11th, 2016 at 11:38
Most Republicans don’t seem very concerned about that swamp getting filled up so quickly.
Tommie December 10th, 2016 at 16:13
Slowly we are turning into Russia, guess I better by that Russian to English book!
Charlie Seivard December 10th, 2016 at 16:19
Another Sleeper Agent. Probably speak Russian in the new Red House
labman57 December 10th, 2016 at 16:21
I guess Donnie’s claim of being “conflict of interest”-proof extends to his cabinet as well.
Jungle_Bhoy December 10th, 2016 at 17:02
Fortunately, I speak and read Russian – unfortunately, that’s why I moved to the United States.
Tommie December 10th, 2016 at 17:06
I may be coming to you for lessons, comrade! Haha!
Gina Bousquet December 11th, 2016 at 18:04
lol
Willys41 December 10th, 2016 at 17:10
Welcome to America — the New Russian Puppet State.
Obewon December 10th, 2016 at 17:42
John Bolton will be #2 ‘under SoS! Under Rex Tillerson’s leadership, ExxonMobil struck oil this summer drilling in Russia’s Arctic region, despite U.S. EU & UN sanctions against Kremlin-controlled partner-Treason!
Trump’s ExXon Dictator will also be paired with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as his deputy secretary of state, one of the sources added, with Bolton handling day-to-day management of the department. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobil-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3731613aa2341bd5ea382d1a5363b78e07ff9ec03cf7979bc9d55ab9ed64d5de.png
robert December 11th, 2016 at 22:51
With Laura Ingram as press secretary we might have another fox news TV show brewing in the Whitehouse
William December 11th, 2016 at 00:06
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/52c49874e730576936e15dc6c9ab685843eafe79675b389a62cbba048878cf0c.jpg
whatthe46 December 11th, 2016 at 00:57
if the republicons don’t do something or the EC or the CIA or the FBI, then we’re fk’d.
this is an actual billboard in Russia. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0a66fd0aa23b3f9f4446ee02c1ca90656c6b2f07c1e9a77c5d76e1a36c9e94ba.jpg
StoneyCurtisll December 11th, 2016 at 16:20
Why not just rename the White house the Kremlin?
And get it over with.
Gina Bousquet December 11th, 2016 at 18:03
Each of his top staff candidate is more revolting!
Robert M. Snyder December 11th, 2016 at 20:57
Hawkish Republicans and hawkish Democrats never pass up an opportunity to demonize Putin, citing things like his decision to annex the Crimean peninsula, where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol. But Nobel-prize-winner Mikhail Gorbachev said earlier this year that in similar circumstances he would have done the same thing:
“KIEV, Ukraine, May 27 (UPI) — Gorbachev, 85, has been banned from entering Ukraine for five years after he said he would have done the same thing as Russian President Vladimir Putin in seizing Crimea, a peninsula that borders Russia and Ukraine. He was quoted in The Sunday Times saying, “I’m always with the free will of the people and most in Crimea wanted to be reunited with Russia.”
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/05/27/Mikhail-Gorbachev-banned-from-Ukraine-over-Crimea-pro-annexation-comments/2951464360869/
We are being fed a cartoonishly simplistic version of events. The Russian economy is the same size as that of Spain, and Russia has only a single aircraft carrier which is so unreliable that it is constantly followed by a Russian tugboat.
Every time the US wants to assert its power over another country, it begins by demonizing its leader. Politicians know that the best way to get people to abandon their common sense and support an agenda is to make them fear a villain. Remember when all of the media puppets were referring to Saddam Hussein as “a madman”? Don’t fall for it. Putin is not a madman, and he is not a villain. But don’t take my word for it. Ask Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev.
dewired4u December 11th, 2016 at 22:24
Bullsh*t How much do you make going around posting the same putin crap on the net? A computer hack is way different that a broke down boat.
Robert M. Snyder December 11th, 2016 at 23:21
Can anyone even begin to count the number of times that the US has put its thumb on the scales of some other country’s election? Have you not been following recent events in Ukraine and Syria, where the US and Russia have meddled in local affairs and backed opposing factions? Do you not recall how the CIA supplied anti-Russian forces with covert assistance during Russia’s occupation of Afghanistan? Even if Putin did attempt to influence our election, we shouldn’t be surprised. We’ve been trying to undermine Russian interests for many decades. That is how the game is played. Anyone who is shocked when other countries do not “play nice” is hopelessly naïve. If our election systems are vulnerable to hacking, then we need to make them more secure instead of whining about Russian hacking.
anothertoothpick December 12th, 2016 at 08:38
the issue goes beyond partisan politics. Republican Senator Lindsay Graham on Wednesday told CNN he and fellow GOP luminary John McCain will also push for investigations into the hacking incidents. And cybersecurity experts are echoing those calls for a deeper, public investigation into the evidence of Russian hacking—both the majority who already believe that the Russian government carried out the attacks, and the small minority that don’t.
Robert M. Snyder December 12th, 2016 at 09:52
The question that interests me is not whether the Russians engaged in hacking. I have always assumed that other countries are doing that on a routine basis. Graham and McCain and others will undoubtedly try to scold the Russians and portray them as bad boys. That’s exactly what Angela Merkel did when she discovered that the US had been hacking into her e-mails. This kind of public scolding may be politically useful to people like McCain and Graham and Merkel, but it doesn’t solve the problem. The only way to stop it is to create a strong cyber-defense.
Mensa Member December 12th, 2016 at 09:37
>> Hawkish Republicans and hawkish Democrats never pass up an opportunity to demonize Putin,
I’m a pacifist Democrat and I denounce Putin, too.
He’s clearly corrupt and dangerous.
By many accounts, he’s personally murderer people for crying out loud! Why would you soft-sell him?
Robert M. Snyder December 12th, 2016 at 09:55
I wasn’t soft-selling. I am just not jumping on the demonization bandwagon. We went down that road with Saddam Hussein. Saddam was not a nice guy, for sure. But when you start calling people “a madman” and hyping the threat that they pose, you end up invading countries like Iraq.
dewired4u December 11th, 2016 at 22:24
Do it over.
Mensa Member December 12th, 2016 at 09:33
The rats in the swamp now have Russian accents.
Hmmm.