NYT reporter busts Trump for lying about Tillerson's qualifications

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman exposed President Donald Trump's lies about his former secretary of state.

Rex Tillerson, who headed the State Department until March 2018, told lawmakers Tuesday that the president was unprepared for a meeting in Hamburg, Germany, with Russian president Vladimir Putin -- and Trump fired back with an angry tweet insulting his former Cabinet secretary's qualifications.

But Haberman, who has covered Trump for years going back to his time as a New York City real estate developer, said the president bragged about nominating Tillerson shortly after his election win.

"In Dec 2016, Trump, pleased with his choice, proudly told guests at Mar-a-Lago that he called Tillerson 'Mr. Exxon' and would say, he’s just got that...' and hold three fingers like a chef’s kiss pose," Haberman tweeted.