“The places I come from, we don’t deal with that kind of petty nonsense… I’m just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration.”

— Rex Tillerson

Remark about the "moron" remark. As quoted in [Flegenheimer, Matt, Oct. 4 2017, ‘Petty Nonsense’ of Washington: Tillerson Joins in Thrashing the Capital, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/politics/tillerson-trump-moron.html, New York Times, Mar. 20 2018]

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