GOP bigwig: Trump would destroy ‘world political order’

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A former congressman who has acted for more than two decades as a top GOP power broker is threatening to leave the Republican Party if Donald Trump defeats Hillary Clinton in November.

“I don’t know how the Republican Party survives if Trump becomes president,” former Minnesota congressman Vin Weber said in a Wednesday interview. He added that a Trump victory would leave “the world political order, the world economic order and the Republican Party … all in shambles.”

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