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Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined, doesn’t like to read’ and tries to do illegal things

This post has been updated with Trump’s response, at bottom.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke publicly about the challenges he faced while working with President Trump in an interview on Dec. 6. (Reuters)

Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President Trump.

The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called Trump a “moron” (and declined to deny it), expounded on his thoughts on the president in a rare interview with CBS News’s Bob Schieffer in Houston.

It wasn’t difficult to read between the lines. Tillerson said Trump is “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read” and repeatedly attempted to do illegal things. He didn’t call Trump a “moron,” but he didn’t exactly suggest that Trump was a scholar — or even just a steady leader.

View the complete December 7 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.

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