Corker and Trump Spar on Twitter

Published October 8, 2017 7:19pm ET



President Donald Trump and outgoing senator Bob Corker of Tennessee got into an unexpected and personal Twitter fight Sunday morning, the nastiest public conflict yet between the White House and Senate Republicans.

President Trump began the tongue-lashing at 10 a.m., jeering that Corker had begged him for an endorsement and then decided to retire when the president would not agree because he “didn’t have the guts to run.”

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