Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard
The conventional wisdom on the firing of Rex Tillerson congealed quickly: He was an ineffective secretary of state who played a crucial role in constraining the president’s reckless foreign policy instincts.This is not just logically impossible, it’s also wrong. From the earliest days of his tenure, Trump didn’t listen to his diplomat in chief. Tillerson was an adviser whose advice was rarely sought and even more rarely followed. His disputes with the president were widely knownâ??often because Trump took them publicâ??and they made it clear that Tillerson couldn’t effectively perform the…
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