Tillerson’s Firing Likely Unrelated to Russia

State Department,Rex Tillerson,Russia,Politics

Posted on AllSides March 15, 2018

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Popularly on social media, and even among a few foreign-policy mandarins, I’ve seen the theory floated that Donald Trump may have fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson because Tillerson suggested Russia was behind the murder of an ex spy in the United Kingdom.

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