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Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, who has been trading barbs with the president, is now hitting President Trump for his "castration" of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, who has been trading barbs with the president, is now hitting President Trump for his "castration" of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
In the midst of a governing crisis, House Speaker Paul Ryan has once again risen to his role as the voice of bland complacency. Concerning the open warfare between President Trump and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Ryan advises "these two gentlemen to sit down and just talk through their issues."
US Republican Senator Bob Corker stepped up his public feud with Donald Trump, saying the US president's undermining of his top diplomat was like castrating him in public. Corker told The Washington Post inan interview that Trump had undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to enlist China in reining in North Korea's nuclear programme by denigrating the diplomat.
BRACE yourselves. There is a storm coming this way, one containing a blizzard of opinions, a tornado of stats, and a rolling thunder of analysis, and all to mark a very important milestone.
Republican Senator Bob Corker stepped up his public feud with Donald Trump on Friday, saying the US president's undermining of his top diplomat was like castrating him in public. Corker told the Washington Post in an interview that Trump had undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to enlist China in reining in North Korea's nuclear program by denigrating the diplomat.
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker's recent comments about the White House -- that it's an adult day care center and that President Donald Trump's temperament could set us "on the path to World War III" -- reveal a basic truth about what happens to you when you leave Congress: You get to tell the truth. Many of us who've left elected life feel a sense of liberation, as if our tongues are no longer strapped to the right or left sides of our mouths.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennesse, told The Washington Post in an interview posted Friday that President Donald Trump public statements on foreign policy "castrate" his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson -- creating "binary" scenarios for the United States on the world stage. "You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice," Corker told The Washington Post's Jackson Diehl in a phone interview on Friday.
Let's start out with the caveat that President Donald Trump's Republicans control the entire federal government, so none of this is going to happen short of a mass rebellion against the President by his own party. Until that happens, the following is a purely academic discussion.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - President Donald Trump pitched his tax plan as a boost for truckers at an event Wednesday in Pennsylvania, saying, "America first means putting American truckers first."
One of the Democratic Party's most prominent financial backers is demanding that lawmakers and candidates on the left support removing President Trump from office, putting pressure on Democrats to make Trump's ouster a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections. Tom Steyer, a billionaire California investor who spent more than $91 million supporting Democrats in the 2016 elections, issued the demand to his party in a letter on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump travels to Harrisburg National Guard Base, where he will make remarks on the topic of tax reform. Trump speech in Harrisburg is to be set against a backdrop of big rigs, with lots of truckers in attendance, according to the White House.
As prominent Republicans fret over Donald Trump's "unpresidential" behavior, that broad and undefined sentiment was aptly summed up by GOP Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who lamented that the White House has become "an adult day care center." The obvious reference is to the impression that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly is obliged almost daily to save the president from his own impulsive and habitually childish comments, which often imperil national security.
The White House reacted to Sen. Bob Corker's spat with President Donald Trump on Tuesday by saying the senator was "entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts" and offered examples of how the president has shown "strong leadership on foreign policy and national security." "Look, Senator Corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts.
Twitter is reversing a decision to keep Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn from promoting a campaign video on that platform because of the congresswoman's statements about the sale of fetal tissue for medical research. Blackburn, a Republican running for the seat being opened by the pending retirement of Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, boasts in the ad that she "stopped the sale of baby body parts."
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., not only told the truth about President Trump's unfitness for office, but also confessed that many Republicans agree. That unfortunately reveals them to be irresponsible cowards if they continue to hold their tongues, knowing the president cannot manage the duties of his office.
But of course, it wasn't that assessment of "failed President Trump" that made jaws drop over the weekend so much as it was the person making it. Meaning Sen. Bob Corker, who unleashed an extraordinary barrage of contempt on Twitter and in a New York Times interview.
"We'll be adjusting a little bit over the next few weeks to make it even stronger, but I will tell you it's become very, very popular," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump didn't say what changes he expected to make in the plan.