President Trump says peace deal with Iran will be announced ‘soon’
President Donald Trump said he had reached a “great settlement” with Iran after the planned attack was called off.
Sen. John Cornyn has warned that President Donald Trump could face “the most harrowing two years of my life” in a new interview with The New York Times.
Cornyn, who lost his seat in May’s Texas Republican primary runoff to Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Trump supporter, said in his first extensive interview on June 11 that there was a growing feeling among Senate Republicans that President Trump was hurting his party with “selfish decisions” and “baseless” loyalties, ultimately dooming the president to a “midterm disaster” in November, the Times reported.
“I think it’s going to be a pretty bumpy ride over the next seven months,” Cornyn said in an interview, adding that he is not a “wounded bear” seeking revenge or revenge. Rather, he is determined to keep Republicans in control of the Senate because he fears Republicans will lose the House in November, the Times reported.
Cornyn also cited Trump’s support for Paxton and a social media post in which Trump wrote that Cornyn “will always be my friend.”
Cornyn expressed acceptance of the loss, saying, “When your friends treat you like that, you wonder about your enemies.”
“If he (President Trump) could do the same thing to me, he would do the same thing to anyone,” Cornyn said in an interview. “There’s never going to be enough for him. We have no choice but to go along 100 percent with what he wants. But it’s clear that that’s not what a senator’s role should be, especially in terms of checks and balances.”
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