GOP Sen. Bob Corker: Trump Is ‘Going To Have To Change’

Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., questions State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr., as he testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2016, on recent Iranian actions and implementation of the nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
In this photo taken April 5, 2016, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with Corker i... In this photo taken April 5, 2016, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with Corker in New York on Monday, May 23, 2016, intensifying speculation that the U.S. senator from Tennessee may be on Trump’s vice presidential shortlist. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said Sunday that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was going to have to change to compete in the general election.

Corker said he didn’t condone the widely-criticized comments Trump has made about the federal judge presiding over the case against Trump University. Trump has said that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel‘s “Mexican heritage” is a conflict of interest in the case.

“Well, I think that he’s going to have to change. And the fact is — I’m not talking about him necessarily changing his views, but I think that he’s now moving into a different phase,” Corker said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

Corker has said he would support the Republican nominee.

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  1. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

  2. Memo to Corker: Trump cannot change, it is not in his nature.

  3. Sounds like buyer’s remorse. Caveat emptor, Corker!

  4. Republicans are all a joke. They live in their dreams and fantasies, they have no grasp whatsoever on realities. It’s been this way ever since Nixon and certainly since Reagan.

    The idea that Trump will change his tune after the last year of his racist and sexist rants, as immature as any 12 year-old son of a redneck, yeah, that kind of “change” as likely as snow in Miami. Somewhere in history, it may have snowed in Miami, but not in my lifetime, I’m damn sure.

  5. Second VP prospect today who said you can’t say that stuff! No way José! Never seen the like.

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