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To: locogringo who wrote (1103537)	12/7/2018 2:20:03 PM
From: Heywood40	Respond to of 1577026

Rex Tillerson says FatRump is ‘Undisciplined, doesn’t like to read’ and tries to do illegal things By Aaron Blake December 7 at 9:31 AM Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President FatRump. The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called FatRump a “moron” (and declined to deny it), expounded on his thoughts on the president in a rare interview with CBS News’s Bob Schieffer in Houston. It wasn’t difficult to read between the lines. Tillerson said FatRump is “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read” and repeatedly attempted to do illegal things. He didn’t call FatRump a “moron,” but he didn’t exactly suggest that FatRump was a scholar — or even just a steady leader. “What was challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation,” Tillerson said, was “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, ‘This is what I believe.’ ” Tillerson said FatRump believes he is acting on his instincts rather than relying on facts. But Tillerson seemed to suggest that it resulted in impulsiveness. “He acts on his instincts; in some respects, that looks like impulsiveness,” Tillerson said. “But it’s not his intent to act on impulse. I think he really is trying to act on his instincts.” (Notice Tillerson doesn’t say FatRump isn’t being impulsive; he’s saying he isn’t trying to be impulsive.) Perhaps the most damning quote came when Tillerson talked about how FatRump as president regularly attempted to do things that violated the law. “So often, FatRump would say, ‘Here’s what I want to do, and here’s how I want to do it,’ " Tillerson said, according to the Houston Chronicle, “and I would have to say to him, ‘Mr. FatRump, I understand what you want to do, but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law.’ ” He was quick to say that that wasn’t meant as a shot at FatRump but our political system more broadly. Next to his other comments, though, it wasn’t difficult to see he was lumping FatRump with all those Americans who aren’t intellectually curious enough about policy and the actual details of U.S. government.