同情特朗普
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- 2003-04-13
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- 注册
- 2003-04-13
- 消息
- 238,878
- 荣誉分数
- 37,355
- 声望点数
- 1,393
The meeting, and the President's conciliatory words, came after weeks of Trump leveling criticism at McConnell, who Trump has blamed for stalled health care legislation.
McConnell pointed to the confirmation of many of Trump's nominees for executive and judicial positions, including Justice Neil Gorsuch, as evidence the Senate is doing its part to get things done.
Trump ally and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has emerged as one of McConnell's highest-profile critics on the right, casting McConnell and his allies as roadblocks to Trump's agenda.
Bannon is encouraging anti-establishment Republicans to unseat senators supportive of Senate Republican leadership.
But in the interview Sunday, McConnell knocked the movement as the latest version of self-sabotaging GOP fights, saying on "Fox News Sunday" that Bannon and other operatives moving to edge out GOP incumbents are "specialists at nominating people who lose."
"This element has been out there for a while," McConnell said on CNN. "They cost us five Senate seats in 2010 and 2012 by nominating people who couldn't win in November."
The "inter-party skirmishes" amounted to a difference among Republicans about how to win elections, he said, adding that his side had the results to show its path was more likely to achieve victory in general election races.
"I think most Republicans want to see us win elections," McConnell said.
RAJU: Is the President of the Untied States a liar?
CORKER: The President has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.
RAJU: Do you regret supporting him in the election?
CORKER: Well, let’s just put it this way: I wouldn’t do that again.
RAJU: You wouldn’t support him again?
CORKER: No way. No way. I think he’s proven himself unable to rise to the occasion. I think many of us, me included, have tried to . . . I’ve intervened, I’ve had private dinner, I’ve been with him on multiple occasions to try to create some kind of aspirational approach, if you will, to the way he conducts himself. But I don’t think that that’s possible. He’s obviously not going to rise to the occasion as President.
RAJU: Do you think he is a role model to children in the United States?
CORKER: No, no, absolutely not . . . . When his term is over, I think, the debasing of our nation—the constant non-truth-telling, the name-calling—the debasement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for. And that’s regretful, and it affects young people. We have young people who for the fist time are watching a President stating absolute non-truths, non-stop, personalizing things in the way that he does. And it’s very sad for our nation.
RAJU: Do you trust him with access to the nuclear codes?
CORKER: I don’t want to go into . . . in our hearing process, certainly, we are gong to be addressing the fact that he, with only one other person on the defense side, has tremendous powers. Again, I don’t want to carry this much further. But, look, I expressed concerns a few weeks ago about his leadership, and . . . his stability, and the lack of desire to be competent on issues and understand. And nothing has changed. But, again, I don’t want to make this, you know, a daily issue. There is work that we need to do, and he is currently the person from the executive side that we have to deal with.
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Flake's speech burning Trump gets standing ovation from some Republicans
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/jeff-flake-retirement-arizona/index.html
Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has sparred frequently with President Donald Trump, will not run for re-election, he said Tuesday in a blistering floor speech bemoaning the changing tenor of politics in the United States.
"If I have been critical, it's not because I relish criticizing the behavior of the President of the United States," Flake said. "If I have been critical, it is because I believe that it is my obligation to do so, as a matter of duty and conscience."
He continued, "The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters -- the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/jeff-flake-retirement-arizona/index.html
Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has sparred frequently with President Donald Trump, will not run for re-election, he said Tuesday in a blistering floor speech bemoaning the changing tenor of politics in the United States.
"If I have been critical, it's not because I relish criticizing the behavior of the President of the United States," Flake said. "If I have been critical, it is because I believe that it is my obligation to do so, as a matter of duty and conscience."
He continued, "The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters -- the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided."
