Posted on 03/30/2017 2:52:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of crumbling negotiations over the GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump said last week he wanted to oust incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford in 2018.
The South Carolina Republican told The Post and Courier that Trump chose to convey this message through an intermediary: White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney, a former member of the S.C. congressional delegation, co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus and a friend.
"'The president asked me to look you square in the eyes and to say that he hoped that you voted ‘no’ on this bill so he could run (a primary challenger) against you in 2018,'" Sanford said Mulvaney told him.
He added that Mulvaney made it clear he did not want to deliver the message but did so at Trump's insistence.
"I’ve never had anyone, over my time in politics, put it to me as directly as that," Sanford said, perhaps understating just how monumental it is for a sitting president to openly go after members of his own party.
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Sanford a RINO? I don’t know much about him.
Meanwhile, “conservatives” in congress look the other way, allowing democrats to commit voter fraud in as many ways as they can come up with.
No, Trump’s now in the business of attacking conservatives who actually meant it when they said they wanted to get rid of Obamacare. Tough turn of events today. Trump is now a swamp monster. Possibly the new king swamp monster.
I was sure he would know who his friends and enemies were in Washington, but it seems he’s making friends with the feckless, ineffective lobbyist-bought insiders.
He's perfect for Congress. He will do whatever his string pullers direct.
I keep hearing we’re moving on toward tax reform where there’s common ground with conservatives. When is that going to happen?
You don’t know him? The Mark Sanford Story would be the subject of a porno if pornos had subjects.
If President Trump wants to turn supporters into political opponents, this will do it.
Sanford is a joke.
He is the Bozo former governor of South Carolina who went missing for about a week, then claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, while he was really in South America banging to TV News binbo in Buenos Aires!
Trump: “We must fight them (conservatives) in 2018!”
Me: We must fight him 2017!
Mr President: No Conservatives, No second term.
I forgot about that.
He’s never had it put to him so directly. He’s never had a real man as president.
I thought he was still walking the Appalachian Trail.
Or a fact-finding mission to Buenos Aires?
Circular firing squad from the stupid party.
Exactly,he went missing shacked up in south America,and he thinks he is credible.
Mark Sanford, the only guy to go walk about in the Appalachian Mountains and end up in Argentina with an Argentine news reporter. Publically shamed his wife and sons.
What a guy...and the dummies re-elected him, not to state office, but put him in Congress.
Sanford is a RINO, he’s part of the swamp.
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