Prominent Republican Senator Has Harsh Words For Donald Trump
Strongest criticism yet from a Republican Senator.
A prominent Republican Senator offered a strong critique for Donald Trump on Thursday in the wake of the president’s widely condemned response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
Senator Bob Corker, after an event, said Trump has not shown the “stability” or competence to be “successful.”
“I do think there need to be some radical changes,” Corker told reporters, according to a video posted by a reporter for Nooga.com. “The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful … And we need for him to be successful. Our nation needs for him to be successful.”
He added that “without the things that I just mentioned happening our nation is going to go through great peril, so I want to do everything I can [to help].”
Corker’s comments come after Trump blamed both the “alt-left” for the violence in Charlottesville that occurred over the weekend, saying there were “very fine people” on both sides.
“He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great,” Corker also said.
“I will say that we’re at a point where there needs to be radical changes that take place at the White House itself. It has to happen. I think the president needs to take stock of the role he plays in our nation and move beyond himself, move way beyond himself,” Corker said.
Corker went on to say, “I don’t believe that the president has appropriately spoken to the nation on this issue. … And I would ask that he take stock of who he is as president of all the people in our nation and that he condemn those things that are separating us.”
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