Bob Corker Says Trump's Recklessness Threatens 'World War III'

[highplainsdem]

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

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Oh, and "Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican."

[Chasstev365]

1. If he is SO DAM concerned, why doesn't he and his fellow GOP Senators remove Trump?

[Plucketeer]

2. The POWER of the Executive Pen

That's what protects President Dunce!

[TreasonousBastard]

4. They can't unless the House impeaches, but...

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]

9. I know the House carries out impeachment

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]

5. They need his signature

[Pugster]

17. Before the Russia investigations are over?

Explain.

[Old Vet]

24. Finally, Finally a POWERFUL republican sees the light, Give Corker a break I say.......

Took a lot of balls to say publicly what hes already done. Hopefully things will slowly change, Mr Corker has some powerful friends.

[shraby]

3. You beat me to it. Only the republicans have the power to do anything about him.

[FakeNoose]

6. As a powerful GOP Senator, Corker can make the change - start impeachment now

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]

7. Corker and the Senate can't start impeachment proceedings

[janterry]

8. Then advocate for impeachment

put your money where your mouth is!

[highplainsdem]

10. GD thread with NYT's Jonathan Martin tweetis giving more details/comments:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029689286

[bdamomma]

11. so millions

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]

12. So 25th the motherfucker already!

[melm00se]

28. I have been reading the 25th Amendment

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]

13. "every single day... trying to contain him", Mr. Corker said in a telephone interview

[LisaL]

14. That's shocking, coming from a Republican senator. And scary.

[mobeau69]

15. Spot on, Lisa. This is not normal.

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]

18. Scary that it takes not running for another term

to feel free enough to speak the truth.

Terrifying and disgusting.

[Old Vet]

26. Yes it is coming from such a powerful REPUBLICAN senator Lisa......

[Sam McGee]

16. We need to flood Corker's office . . . .

. . . . with phone calls, emails, and faxes quoting the 25th Amendment.

[Alice11111]

19. It's Trump's cabinet that invoke the 25th, not Corker.

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]

20. Sorry but

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]

21. The president acts like hes doing The Apprentice or something, Corker said and his reckless,

The president acts “like he’s 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 we’re dealing with here,” Corker said, echoing Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein’s 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 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....................................


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/bob-corker-reality-show-president-trump-is-setting-us-on-path-to-world-war-iii/

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Yet Corker voted to repeal Obamacare.

https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/412248

[dalton99a]

25. Yep.

[Old Vet]

27. As it should, The possible threat of WAR makes reasonable people shudder..........

[Irish_Dem]

29. Frankenstein's creators worry that he will burn down the village.

File in the "too late" and "duh" files.