Corker on media: 'I had a newfound empathy' for Trump Politico, Dec 21, 2017, Louis Nelson
Sen. Bob Corker, among President Donald Trump’s most frequent Republican critics, said Thursday that he has developed a new empathy for the president’s “fake news†crusade against the media after reports swirled about a “Corker kickback†that some allege prompted the senator to change his vote on the White House-backed tax reform bill.
“I told him that I’d had a healthy respect for the media. I deal with them all the time and, you know, to attack the media has not been something I've done. But I had a newfound empathy for him in watching how a totally debunked story†spread across the political media, Corker (R-Tenn.) told Fox News’s “Fox & Friends†as he recalled a recent conversation with the president.
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