February 10, 2017
Elliott Abrams, who served Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush,
will not get the No. 2 job at the State Department, three Republican sources told CNN.
But Abrams was nixed from the list of contenders after President Donald Trump learned of Abrams' biting criticism last May of his fitness to become president, the Republican sources said.
The President found out about Abrams' outspokenness against Trump after meeting with him on Tuesday to consider him for the position, which would have made him Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's deputy. The meeting went well, but Trump could not get past Abrams' past criticism, the sources said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/elliott-abrams-trump-state-department-tillerson/
