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In an extraordinary statement, Corker told reporters that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly “are those people that help separate our country from chaos.”

Trump, who has little tolerance for public criticism and prides himself on counterpunching those who cross him, fired off a trio of tweets Sunday morning attacking Corker, who announced last month that he plans to retire and not seek reelection in 2018.

You don't have to click on that WaPo link, which is another WaPo article, you can instead watch 2.24 minutes from the horse's mouth,  see the video from CSpan of Corker's statement here on my "Calm before the Storm" news thread, which I recommend. Corker has obviously hit a very very sore spot.

This is why he hates CNN so much, hah, "related" from their home page after this story being the headline:

• Analysis: Trump is playing zero-dimensional chess

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  Sykes: Corker sees the emperor isn't clothed

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  Trump defends tossing paper towels

   

Edit to add this one from the most popular menu:

Rex Tillerson should quit now

YIKES for real, NO MORE TWEETING AROUND FOR CORKER, he followed up with the NYTimes, in a "free at last" interview:

Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’

By Jonathan Martin & Mark Landler @ NYTimes.com, 8:45 pm

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.”

In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.”

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

Mr. Corker’s comments capped a remarkable day of sulfurous insults between the president and the Tennessee senator — a powerful, if lame-duck, lawmaker, whose support will be critical to the president on tax reform and the fate of the Iran nuclear deal [.....]

In a 25-minute conversation, Mr. Corker, speaking carefully and purposefully, seemed to almost find cathartic satisfaction by portraying Mr. Trump in terms that most senior Republicans use only in private.

The senator, who is close to Mr. Tillerson, invoked comments that the president made on Twitter last weekend in which he appeared to undercut Mr. Tillerson’s negotiations with North Korea.

“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true,” Mr. Corker said.

Without offering specifics, he said Mr. Trump had repeatedly undermined diplomacy with his Twitter fingers. “I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Mr. Corker said.

All but inviting his colleagues to join him in speaking out about the president, Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican.

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”

As for the tweets that set off the feud on Sunday morning, Mr. Corker expressed a measure of powerlessness.

“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does.”

The senator recalled four conversations this year [....]

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is standing by his tough criticisms of President Trump.

"My thoughts were well thought out," Corker told CNN. "Look, I didn't just blurt them out. My comments -- my comments, I stand by them -- yes." 

The GOP senator said he had repeatedly tried to share his concerns through private communications and meetings, saying the frustration has been "building for some time" before he decided to speak out.

"Look I've been expressing concerns for some time and it's built over time. I've had private dinners, I've had private phone calls, I've tried to intervene on topics that I thought things were going in a different direction and are not going to be good for our country.

"This is not a new thing, it's been building for some time. And it's a pattern that I think we've fought and expressed for some period of time," he told the news outlet [...]

recounted by Oliva Beavers @ TheHill.com, Oct. 16, 11 pm