{"id":364783,"date":"2017-10-24T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364783"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:14:26","slug":"republican-senator-trump-speaks-untruths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/republican-senator-trump-speaks-untruths\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican senator: Trump speaks ‘untruths’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker has unleashed a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump, calling the president “utterly untruthful”.<\/p>\n
In a series of television interviews, Mr Corker accused the president of lying, adding that he debased the US and weakened its global standing.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump fired back on Twitter, calling the top Senator a “lightweight” who “couldn’t get re-elected”.<\/p>\n
The pair are due to meet at a Senate lunch to discuss tax reform on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“He is purposely breaking down relationships we have around the world that had been useful to our nation,” Mr Corker said on CNN after Mr Trump criticised him on Twitter.<\/p>\n
“I think the debasement of our nation is what he’ll be remembered most for,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Relations Committee head, who was an early supporter of Mr Trump, added that the president has “great difficulty with truth”.<\/p>\n
Raising the voltage –<\/strong>\u00a0Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n The good news for Donald Trump is he’s managed to push his feud with a grieving war widow out of the headlines. The bad news is he’s done it by pushing a stake through Republican unity at a time when the party needs to come together to pass big-ticket tax reform through Congress.<\/p>\n The latest blistering exchange between Republican Senator Bob Corker and the president has all the hallmarks of one of Mr Trump’s classic intra-party campaign spats.<\/p>\n There’s the quick Twitter trigger finger, the derogatory nicknames (“liddle” Bob Corker), the over-the-top hyperbole (“he couldn’t get elected dog catcher”).<\/p>\n Republicans – including those who bore the brunt of Mr Trump’s vitriolic attacks – largely shrugged off those earlier rows as primary-season posturing and unified behind their unlikely standard-bearer in the autumn general election.<\/p>\n Mr Corker, on the verge of Senate retirement, isn’t backing down, however. And the president is once again raising the voltage.<\/p>\n The party is learning the hard way that there’s only one Donald Trump – whether he’s a real-estate mogul, a reality TV star, a candidate or a president.<\/p>\n If you question his leadership, his views or his attitude, he’ll unleash the whirlwind, no matter the consequences.<\/p>\n When asked if he regretted supporting Mr Trump during the 2016 election, the Tennessee senator said: “Let’s just put it this way, I would not do that again.”<\/p>\n His comments came after Mr Trump lashed out at the Republican in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n
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