{"id":112525,"date":"2016-12-13T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=112525"},"modified":"2016-12-14T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:05:24","slug":"trump-leaning-to-nominate-tillerson-sec-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=112525","title":{"rendered":"Rex Tillerson nominated Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-112526\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tillersonRex-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"tillersonrex\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tillersonRex-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tillersonRex-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tillersonRex-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tillersonRex.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President-elect Donald Trump has announced his choice of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, hailing him as &#8220;among the most accomplished business leaders and international deal makers in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a release from his transition headquarters in New York, Trump calls Tillerson&#8217;s career &#8220;the embodiment of the American dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says Tillerson rose through the ranks &#8220;through hard work, dedication and smart deal making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also says that as the nation&#8217;s top diplomat, Tillerson will be &#8220;a world-class leader&#8221; working on behalf of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson has close ties to Russia, and his selection sets up a potential confirmation fight in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also nominated <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=112651\">Rick Perry<\/a>\u00a0to head Energy Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President-elect Donald Trump has announced his choice of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, hailing him as &#8220;among the most accomplished business leaders and international deal makers in the world.&#8221; In a release from his transition headquarters in New York, Trump calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112671,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112525\/revisions\/112671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}