Two U.S. officials say the White House has fired one of Rex Tillerson’s top aides after he contradicted the official account of the secretary of state’s dismissal by President Donald Trump.
The officials said Steve Goldstein, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, was informed of the move shortly after he released a statement in his name saying that Tillerson was “unaware of the reason” for his termination. Goldstein had also told reporters that Tillerson learned of his firing Tuesday morning from Trump’s tweet announcing he was nominating CIA chief Mike Pompeo to lead the State Department.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about personnel moves. Goldstein could not immediately be reached for comment.
@Bakari_Sellers
Tillerson blames Russia for nerve gas attack last night. Fired this morning.
Natasha Bertrand
Omg. A State Dept official says Tillerson learned he was fired from Trump’s tweet, per @CNN
Tillerson should now spill the beans as for the real reason he was ACTUALLY appointed as secratary of state, he also needs to spill the beans on what he knows about that rodent devin nunez and russia, “keebler-elf” should also talk what he knows to save himself from his involvement in it, “sloppy-steve” also needs to talk what he knows if he is the American patriot as he claim he is.
What a disgrace eh?
We patiently waiting on Mueller but it seems it’s the porn star that is going to get to him first.
as soon as di man blame russia trump fire him dats how u know him well and coordinate this whole thing with russia…putin a run we cuntryyyy TPC and the republican dem shut down di russia probe weh day…so its clear as day that there is a massive cover up going on and they are only protecting russia and di big ol sowa punkin