On Asia trip, Republican senators assure U.S. allies that Donald Trump won't do what he says he will
On Asia trip, Republican senators assure U.S. allies that Donald Trump won't do what he says he will
by Hunter at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/2/1533671/-On-Asia-trip-Republican-senators-assure-U-S-allies-that-Donald-Trump-won-t-do-what-he-says-he-will
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Quick, somebody alert Sarah Palin! Some of her fellow Republican politicians appear to be in the midst of one of them-thar apology tours!
Just as pressure is mounting on Republican elected officials to fall in line behind Trump, Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Dan Sullivan of Alaska are in South Korea undercutting Trump's bluster with assurances that the U.S. is not about to renege on trade agreements or demand its allies pay more to support American forces on Korean soil.
Mind you, when your party is dispatching Joni Ernst, Cory Gardner, and Dan Sullivan as Republican voices of moderation and reason you are very hard up indeed. But don't worry, they're telling our allies, our candidate will never do those things he keeps muttering about!
"Whether it is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, we have an absolute commitment and resolve to growing our alliance with Korea, and there is no going back," Gardner told the South Korean news agency Yonhap News on Wednesday. [...]
Ernst and Sullivan also apparently voiced disagreement with Trump's assertion that South Korea doesn't pay enough to keep 28,500 U.S. troops on its soil and asserted that Trump's position on the matter is ill-informed and unlikely to be folded into the official Republican Party platform next month at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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