Bob Corker Says Trump's Recklessness Threatens 'World War III'
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like a reality show, with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation on the path to World War III.
In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts like hes 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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Mr. Trump poses such an acute risk, the senator said, that a coterie of senior administration officials must protect him from his own instincts. I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, its a situation of trying to contain him, Mr. Corker said in a telephone interview.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html
Oh, and "Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican."
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)That's what protects President Dunce!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)they might try to censure him, though.
The problem is that since Andrew Jackson we haven't had such a noxious presence in the White House, so this is very new territory.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)I am just making tbe point the words mean nothing; action means everything!
NO ONE in the GOP will take action to stop the madness of King Donald. Maybe the military will if he orders an insane nuclear strike.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Pugster
(229 posts)Explain.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Took a lot of balls to say publicly what hes already done. Hopefully things will slowly change, Mr Corker has some powerful friends.
shraby
(21,946 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)He doesn't even need McConnell if enough Senators already agree with him. And I suspect that more of them do but are too chickenshit to speak out. Corker should start the ball rolling right now.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)put your money where your mouth is!
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)of people will be killed due to his idiotic POS and no one will say anything???? Taser the bastard.
I would take any kind of action to stop this jerk, he is a threat to himself and others this is prerequisite to commit someone to a mental health institution.
snort
(2,334 posts)melm00se
(4,994 posts)and to paraphrase The Princess Bride, I don't think it means what you think it means.
While Section 4 does allow for Vice President and the majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide to notify the Senate and House leadership that the President is unable to discharge his duties, it is only a temporary measure.
The President can notify the President pro tempore and the Speaker of the House indicating that he is OK and is resuming his powers as President.
If the Vice President and Cabinet still think that he us unable to discharge his duties as President, Congress must assemble and it will still require 2/3's of the House and Senate to remove the President from office.
The 25th Amendment is not some magic pixie dust to remove a President.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)A sitting president getting into a war of words with a US Senator from his own party. WTF is going on and how's this movie going to end? Dotard is absolutely nuts.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)to feel free enough to speak the truth.
Terrifying and disgusting.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Sam McGee
(347 posts). . . . with phone calls, emails, and faxes quoting the 25th Amendment.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)He is doing a lot by speaking truth to power. He is ringing the bell that the others cannot ignore. 🔔🛎
He is doing Much more than most of those spinless guys who stuff their pockets with NRA money.💰💸🔫
Goblor
(163 posts)this was obvious even before the election. Sadly, this is old news for anyone with a brain. Corker should have spoken up much sooner.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)The president acts like hes doing The Apprentice or something, Corker said and his reckless, bellicose attitude toward other countries could set the U.S. on the path to World War III.
He concerns me, Corker said. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.
Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what were dealing with here, Corker said, echoing Watergate reporter Carl Bernsteins comments this week that the Republican Congress now thinks of Trump as a liability.
Corker told the Times, (O)f course they understand the volatility that were dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road....................................
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/bob-corker-reality-show-president-trump-is-setting-us-on-path-to-world-war-iii/
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BumRushDaShow
(129,450 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,390 posts)File in the "too late" and "duh" files.