{"id":330602,"date":"2017-10-15T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tillerson-dismisses-claim-he-was-castrated-by-trump-rt-america\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:01:15","slug":"tillerson-dismisses-claim-he-was-castrated-by-trump-rt-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tillerson-dismisses-claim-he-was-castrated-by-trump-rt-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson dismisses claim he was \u2018castrated\u2019 by Trump \u2014 RT America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 19:03 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has dismissed a prominent Republican senator\u2019s claim that President Donald Trump is trying to \u201cpublicly castrate\u201d him by undermining his political efforts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/406741-tillerson-nkorea-bomb-drops\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.10\/thumbnail\/59e36913fc7e93ab038b4567.JPG\" alt=\"\u00a9 Jonathan Ernst\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday, Tillerson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CZOhW2dVp0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rubbished<\/a> Tennessee Senator Bob Corker\u2019s assertion that he has been neutered because Trump undermined his diplomatic initiatives with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI checked, I\u2019m fully intact,\u201d<\/em> Tillerson told host Jake Tapper in a deadpan manner.<\/p>\n<p>The former ExxonMobil CEO revealed that President Trump has instructed him to continue his diplomatic efforts on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to make it clear that the president has made it clear to me he wants to solve this diplomatically&#8230; he is not seeking to go to war,\u201d <\/em>he said.<em> \u201cThe diplomatic effort will continue until the first bomb drops.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He then praised Trump, calling him<em> \u201ca very unique president.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that everyone sees him as the most unique president in modern history,\u201d<\/em> Tillerson said.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state also repeatedly declined to deny reports he called Trump a <em>\u201cmoron.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not playing,\u201d <\/em>Tillerson said when Tapper asked about the alleged comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese are the games of Washington. These are the destructive games of this town. I\u2019m not dignifying the question with an answer, Jake, and I\u2019m a little surprised that you want to spend so much time on it when there are so many issues around the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/406689-trump-virgin-islands-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: Two Trumps confirmed? Donald says he met Virgin Islands \u2018president\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/406763-tillerson-not-castrated-by-trump\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. 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Read more Speaking on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday, Tillerson rubbished Tennessee Senator Bob Corker\u2019s assertion that he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}