He's even a failure as a bully.......
Rep. Mark Sanford:
Trump threatened to go after me to win my vote on health care
Gabby
Kaufman
Yahoo
In an interview with the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier, Sanford
said that Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management
and Budget, told him, “‘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.’”
The American Health Care Act, orchestrated by House
Speaker Paul Ryan, was
abruptly withdrawn Friday after it became clear that it lacked
sufficient support to pass. The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, of
which Sanford is a member, led the charge from the right to oppose the bill,
and Trump has publicly
blamed its members for the bill’s failure.
Sanford said he counts Mulvaney as a friend and that it
was clear he was delivering the message reluctantly and on Trump’s behalf,
rather than of his own volition.
The veteran congressman was surprised by the
strong-arm tactic, telling the Post and Courier, “I’ve never had anyone, over
my time in politics, put it to me as directly as that.”
Still, “I have nothing against Donald Trump,” Sanford
insisted. “There is zero personal animosity from me towards him. I try to shoot
it right down the middle, as I have always done in politics. … I want to help
him succeed, because if he succeeds, the Republican Congress, and our country
by extension, succeeds.”
A spokesperson for Sanford did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.
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