WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly name ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson, an oilman with deep ties to Russia, as secretary of state Tuesday despite mounting support for a congressional probe into Moscow’s alleged interference in the US election.
“I will be making my announcement on the next Secretary of State tomorrow morning,” Trump said late Monday using his favoured medium, Twitter.
News outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News cited sources as saying the real estate mogul had settled on Tillerson after a drawn-out and public search for the nation’s top diplomat.
The president-elect also said late Monday that …read more
Source: theSun