Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken a veiled shot at President Donald Trump, warning that a growing national crisis of ethics and integrity has put American democracy at risk. (May 16) AP
Former secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to offer criticisms of his former boss Wednesday during a commencement address in which he warned of a “growing crisis in ethics and integrity” in American democracy.
“The central tenet of a free society, a free people is access to the truth,” Tillerson told the graduating class at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. “It is only by a fierce defense of the truth and a common set of facts that we create the conditions for a democratic, free society.”
The former Exxon-Mobil CEO said if “our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.”
Tillerson did not call out President Trump by name, but the…
