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Trump Mocks Bob Corker’s Height, Escalating Feud with a Key Republican
New York Times ^ | October 10, 2017 | PETER BAKER

Posted on 10/10/2017 10:11:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height, even as advisers worried that the president was further fracturing his relationship with congressional Republicans just a week before a vote critical to his tax cutting plan.

Mr. Trump gave Mr. Corker, a two-term Republican from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a derogatory new nickname — “Liddle Bob” — after the two exchanged barbs in recent days. He suggested Mr. Corker was somehow tricked when he told a reporter from The New York Times that the president was reckless and could stumble into a nuclear war.

In labeling Mr. Corker “liddle,” the president was evidently returning to a theme. He considered Mr. Corker for secretary of state during the transition after last year’s election but was reported to have told associates that Mr. Corker, at 5-foot-7, was too short to be the nation’s top diplomat. Instead, Mr. Trump picked Rex W. Tillerson, who is several inches taller but whose own relationship with the president has deteriorated to the point that he was said to have called Mr. Trump a “moron.”

Mr. Tillerson initially did not deny it, but later had a spokeswoman insist he did not say it. The president, in a new interview with Forbes magazine, said he considered it “fake news” but added that if it were true, he would beat Mr. Tillerson in an I.Q. contest.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020nominee; antitrumper; boom; corker; fakenews; reaganaut1; tds; trump
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To: reaganaut1

Go Trump go!

MAGA


81 posted on 10/10/2017 11:42:02 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: wiseprince
Erma Gawd 😱😱😱😱😱 Get over your own self. RINOs are undermine and attacking the Trump agenda at every turn As far as I’m concerned Trump is the only adult in the room. Calling out liars and thieves left and right. Good for him. Good for us
82 posted on 10/10/2017 11:43:14 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: oldplayer; reaganaut1

He needed to change the rules of “the game.”

They were all in favor of The Swamp. Pulling the carpet out from under them levels the playing field and allows a quick thinker like Trump to win what was a rigged game.

It’s really that simple. Anyone who played by “the rules” would have lost every battle, including the well-intended Cruz.


83 posted on 10/10/2017 11:44:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: reaganaut1

One thing I have noticed over the years is that most of the posters who try and associate themselves with President Ronald Reagan’s through their name name don’t act or think anything like Ronald Reagan would have.


84 posted on 10/10/2017 11:46:16 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: sphinx

Corker fave us the Iran deal....until he served time for that criminal act I got no sympathy. Plus Corker knew that McShamey and Collins and at least one other would vote against repeal so he could claim he kept his promise


85 posted on 10/10/2017 11:49:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: reaganaut1
Some joker has edited the Wikipedia page on presidential heights so that it says Trump is 6 foot 9.
86 posted on 10/10/2017 11:49:31 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: catnipman
Ouch That’s gotta hurt 😂😂😂😂
87 posted on 10/10/2017 11:50:03 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: reaganaut1

In your world do “adults” make nice with scumbags trying to screw them?


88 posted on 10/10/2017 11:52:22 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 1Old Pro

Hillary stumbled on the way, to her bid for glory!


89 posted on 10/10/2017 11:52:55 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: John S Mosby

“trying to prevent Rep. Marsha Blackburn from running for Corker’s seat”:

Marsha is truly awesome, and i’ll be donating to her campaign.


90 posted on 10/10/2017 11:55:54 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: reaganaut1

But of course

Just another chance to have a weak GOP flunky lose to a far left dim

Have you not learned over the years????


91 posted on 10/10/2017 12:00:02 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: z3n

“”welp, you can’t get anything done by alienating most everyone, but then again, most of the people Trump goes after aren’t cooperative anyway. May as well make an example out of them””

The media didn’t make much of Obama telling Repubs to get in the back and let Dems drive. Or telling Ceos he was all there was between them and pitchforks.

The statement above is pretty much right. The problem for most of us is we put up with way more than we should. I am begininng to see Trump as a Dad for the country. The older Dad who says get out of the way son, I will show you how to take care of this problem. We tried it your way, now pay attention and learn.


92 posted on 10/10/2017 12:02:31 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: reaganaut1

Reminds me of a Toyota commercial.


93 posted on 10/10/2017 12:12:15 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The "God Gene" is evolution's way of saying chaos sucks.)
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To: jazminerose

[Corker is, tragically, my senator. I say, bring it on, Mr President, bring it on.]

I wonder what names MRS. CORKER called unfaithful BOB.


94 posted on 10/10/2017 12:18:31 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: reaganaut1

>> Trump does not act like an adult. I hope someone else will be the Republican nominee in 2020. I know that some Trump supporters think he’s a “fighter” because of stuff like this, but they would laugh at a Democratic president who did this.<<

If you and those who think like you fail to grasp what an enormous benefit to our country it is to have a courageous leader like President Trump, I hold you in utter disdain. Whining and bitching about such trivia as you do makes you appear small in light of current issues of national importance.


95 posted on 10/10/2017 12:22:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

What Trump is doing is not for “us” we are not the audience for these “twitter shenanigans” it’s the MSM & the GOPe. He is goading them into overreacting, which they always do!


96 posted on 10/10/2017 12:25:01 PM PDT by Reily
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To: maxtheripper

[How sad that you make statements like this without even knowing the facts.]

I correct myself on the years spent in the SENATE. Other than that, I stand on my comment. A person is known by his doings.


97 posted on 10/10/2017 12:26:19 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: arthurus

He kinda does since they’re the Senate and all.

Unless Trump has decided that nothing major is getting passed in the next three years and that it’s just scorched earth all over the place.


98 posted on 10/10/2017 12:26:25 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Fantasywriter

“A retiring senator attempted a complete sabotage of a sitting president from his own party, and the party leaders came out in support of the saboteur. Let that sink in.”

You have nailed it.


99 posted on 10/10/2017 12:27:54 PM PDT by map
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To: GOYAKLA
Hillary stumbled on the way, to her bid for glory!

Hillary's campaign fell flat with her husband Bill who stood by erect yet crooked.

100 posted on 10/10/2017 12:28:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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