5 Oct 2017 12:32 am
Seems like they only tell the truth when they're out of office or on their way out of office.Senator Bob Corker: Tillerson, Mattis and Kelly ‘help separate our country from chaos’
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R) offered a blunt assessment of the Trump administration on Wednesday, saying his top advisers “help separate the country from chaos."
Corker, addressing an NBC News report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson considered resigning in frustration over his role, painted the former ExxonMobil executive — along with Chief of Staff John Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis — as having a calming influence in the administration.
"I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis and Chief of Staff Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos," Corker told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon.
The Tennessee senator expressed sympathy for Tillerson, who he said is in an “incredibly frustrating place."
Corker added that Tillerson “ends up not being supported in the way I would hope a secretary of state would be supported.”
The stark assessment comes after Corker announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 2018, a move that affords him more freedom in his current role.