Sunday, October 8, 2017

So.....Do Something

In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.”

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

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The senator views Mr. Trump as given to irresponsible outbursts — a political novice who has failed to make the transition from show business.

  NYT
Who doesn't?
“I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him,” Mr. Corker said in a telephone interview.
It ain't workin'.
Still, even as he leveled his stinging accusations, Mr. Corker repeatedly said on Sunday that he liked Mr. Trump, until now an occasional golf partner, and wished him “no harm.”
You don't have to wish him harm to do something to remove him from office when you know he's a danger to the country.
In a 25-minute conversation, Mr. Corker, speaking carefully and purposefully, seemed to almost find cathartic satisfaction by portraying Mr. Trump in terms that most senior Republicans use only in private.
No doubt. But it doesn't take a lot of courage to tell the truth when you're leaving your job.
Without offering specifics, he said Mr. Trump had repeatedly undermined diplomacy with his Twitter fingers. “I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Mr. Corker said.

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Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican.

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”
What road is that?
“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does."
Is that not a reason to remove him from office?
Mr. Corker was briefly a candidate to be Mr. Trump’s running mate in 2016, but he withdrew his name from consideration and later expressed ambivalence about Mr. Trump’s campaign, in part because he said he found it frustrating to discuss foreign policy with him.

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“As long as there are people [...] around him who are able to talk him down when he gets spun up, you know, calm him down and continue to work with him before a decision gets made, I think we’ll be fine,” he said.
That's a pretty big gamble. And is that, also, not a reason to remove him from office?
Mr. Corker would not directly answer when asked whether he thought Mr. Trump was fit for the presidency.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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