It's just a wild guess, but I got this thought: The recent fake news about the Tillerson firing don't seem an accident to me. My theory is that Donald Trump and his inner circle deliberately spread fake news with the purpose of deny the same later and accuse the media of fake reporting. The perfidious strategy behind this is simply to destroy the media's credibility. Once that is done, he thinks he can get away with lies, false statements and potential other misbehavior; let alone the whole Russia investigation.
Thoughts on that?
The main problem with this argument is that it is based on rational thought and the idea that Trump has a well thought-out strategy. That just doesn't seem very likely. It seems much more likely that the reports were completely true and that the firing of Tillerson has been postponed or cancelled altogether to spite the press and claim that it is all fake news.
