Russian puppet Rex Tillerson bizarrely claims he didn’t even want Secretary of State job

| 9:55 pm EDT March 21, 2017
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Is Rex Tillerson trying to paint himself a sympathetic figure, or does he honestly have no idea what role he’s playing in the international chess game between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump? Tillerson has granted a very rare interview to a pro-Trump publication, and in it he’s now bizarrely claiming that he never wanted the Secretary of State job and still doesn’t know why it was offered to him.

Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon-Mobil and he has deep financial oil ties to Putin and Russia, and was recently awarded the Russian Order of Friendship by Putin.. Yet he has no political experience and he’d never even met Trump before, so the entire nation scratched its head when he was announced as Trump’s Secretary of State. He’s gone out of his way to avoid all press since taking the job, and there have been increasing signs that there may be something wrong with his health. But he spoke one on one with pro-Trump mouthpiece Independent Journal Review this week, and he laid out a series of claims about how the job fell to him.

Rex Tillerson says Trump called him up to ask about foreign policy, and then stunned him by offering him the cabinet position. “I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job,” he says. He blames his wife for forcing him to say yes to Trump. Whether Tillerson is telling the truth or not, it seems clear that Trump offered him the Secretary of State job at Putin’s instruction. And in turn, that appears to have been because Putin wanted someone in the position that he could control as needed. Tillerson would have us believe enough to not be aware of any of the above, even though many suspect that he and Putin are using the arrangement as an excuse to conduct oil business.

In any case, Tillerson is doing little to quiet the questions surrounding him by suddenly making the strange claim in the interview that he didn’t even want the job. He’s already been mailing it in so badly that Americans are increasingly asking if we even have a Secretary of State anymore. How long before he gives up and resigns? Contribute to Palmer Report