Morning Jolt: Corker's Criticism of Trump Isn't Completely Correct

Making the click-through worthwhile: one aspect of Senator Bob Corker's criticism of President Trump that doesn't ring true, ESPN suspends anchor Jamele Hill for being Jamele Hill, and why Hillary Clinton's silence about Harvey Weinstein is not the least bit shocking.

The Flaw in Corker's Critique

President Trump's war of words with Senate foreign relations chairman Bob Corker is a giant pile of preventable, self-destructive folly, but there's one part of Corker's indictment that doesn't quite ring true.

Corker says Trump's "reckless threats toward other countries" could set the nation "on the path to World War III."

Look, if the United States is one hyperbolic presidential Tweet away from all-out war, we're already doomed. If the world really is just 140 characters away from Armageddon, that's a stinging indictment of several preceding administrations as well as Trump's.

What's more, if all it took to get Kim Jong Un to attempt to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear weapon was an insult from the president, then we would have seen the missiles flying already. I refer you to ...

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Corker's Criticism of Trump Isn't Completely Correct Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: one aspect of Senator Bob Corker's criticism of President Trump that doesn't ring true, ESPN suspends anchor Jamele Hill for being Jamele Hill, and why Hillary Clinton's silence about Harvey Weinstein is not the least bit shocking. The Flaw in Corker's Critique President Trump's war of words with Senate foreign relations chairman Bob Corker is a giant pile of preventable, self-destructive folly, but there's one part of Corker's indictment that doesn't quite ring true. Corker says Trump's "reckless threats toward other countries" could set the nation "on the path to World War III." Look, if the United States is one hyperbolic presidential Tweet away from all-out war, we're already doomed. If the world really is just 140 characters away from Armageddon, that's a stinging indictment of several preceding administrations as well as Trump's. What's more, if all it took to get Kim Jong Un to attempt to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear weapon was an insult from the president, then we would have seen the missiles flying already. I refer you to ... READ MORE Congress Should Investigate the Organic Scam Julie Kelly Several lawmakers just introduced a bill that would nearly triple the budget for the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP), the federal agency in charge of overseeing the U.S. organic market.... Stop Exploiting Victims for Political Gain David French Stop Exploiting Victims for Political Gain ADVERTISEMENT Florida Threatens to Throw Woman in the Slammer for Giving Unlicensed Diet Tips Katherine Timpf A woman in Florida is being threatened with jail time for allowing people to pay her to give them nutritional advice — and that's very, very dumb. To clarify, Heather Kokesch Del Castillo is... Supreme Court Takes on Public-Sector Unions Ilya Shapiro, Frank Garrison At the start of this "momentous" Supreme Court term — as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it — most people are focused on partisan gerrymandering. But it's not clear that there are five votes... The Paris Statement: Hope for Europe's Renewal Michael Brendan Dougherty "In this moment, we ask all Europeans to join us in rejecting the utopian fantasy of a multicultural world without borders. We rightly love our homelands, and we seek to hand on to our children... A Vicious Virtue Victor Davis Hanson Not long ago, late-night comedian and would-be philosopher Steven Colbert signaled the nation his virtuous outrage over the Trump presidency. Colbert offered that Trump had "a feeble f***ing... ADVERTISEMENT Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context Dom Paschal Scotti 'This exquisite history of a defining moment at the birth of modernity resists the temptation to idealize or villainize, treating both Galileo and his opponents as the flesh-and-blood creatures they actually were.' - Michael Augros, Ph.D, author, Who Designed the Designer? A Rediscovered Path to God's Existence LEARN MORE New York Comic Con Fast Food World ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.