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I've discussed that earlier (and will likely do something more focused later on). ► I will be making my announcement on the next Secretary of State tomorrow morning.[https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/808469755749339136] Winter is coming … And today: ► I have chosen one of the truly great … Continue reading “Tweetizen Trump – 2016-12-13 "State and Ethics"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,748,532,374,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-elections-2016","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rtr39j4q5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133745,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/will-rex-tillerson-be-the-first-trump-secretary-to-bail.html","url_meta":{"origin":132284,"position":0},"title":"Will Rex Tillerson be the first Trump secretary to bail?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jun-17 10:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We often read about how frustrating DC has been for Donald Trump, a free-wheeling CEO who is used to giving orders and having them executed, to suddenly find himself mired in politics and institutional restraints and checks and balances and all that folderol.But consider poor Rex Tillerson, a CEO of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/trump-picks-tillerson-for-secretary-of-state.html","url_meta":{"origin":132284,"position":1},"title":"Trump picks Tillerson for Secretary of State","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 4:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rex Tillerson sounds like a CEO name, and he is in fact the Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. 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