re: #116 Sir John Barron

By itself that relationship might not be a problem. But combined with Russian ratf*cking in our election on behalf of the eventual winning candidate who nominated this guy, and combined with the existence of sanctions against Putin, which Tillinger lobbied against (on behalf of his company but still), combined with Russian actions in Syria, combined with Trump’s rather bizarre complete non-criticalness of Putin, combined with….

This is the problem. And of some importance, why Tillinger at all? There aren’t more public-minded Republican statesmen with diplomatic experience who could fill the job of SoS?

Earlier reports suggested that many qualified Republicans declined to work under Trump, and who can blame them? Trump’s filling his cabinet with all the people who have no qualms working with a narcissistic control freak whose administration has scared away any halfway sane candidates.