GOP Senator Lankford Says Trump Is No Role Model For His Kids, Declines to Withdraw 2020 Support
On Sunday, MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt interviewed Senator James Lankford (R-OK) at length, and touched on the subject of Trump as a moral person and role model. Lankford is not a fan.
“I have been one that have said several times I don’t consider the president a role model for my kids. I don’t want my kids to speak the way that he speaks or to make some of the choices. And that has been the challenge for quite a bit of time to say, how do you balance this out between policy and personal behavior, in the way he has his own unique style? I don’t speak that way. I don’t tweet that way. I don’t interact with people that way. I don’t treat my staff the same way he treats his staff. But that is who the American people selected and that’s who we’re going to be able to work with.”
They briefly discuss the presidency of Bill Clinton, and Lankford says he thinks we would benefit from holding everyone to higher standards.
Hunt then asks Lankford if anything we’ve found out since the election, such as the Stormy Daniels story, have made him reconsider possibly supporting Trump in 2020. The Senator declined to say he’d reconsider.
“It was pretty clear during the campaign there were moral issues and that we have different life-style choices we have made personally. It’s something that the president has been pretty outspoken on. He’s not tried to be able to step out and say that he is a role model in those areas. he said a role model in business and do deal making. I get that. I have to be able to look at policies and what we’re going to try to get done at the end of the day. Same thing that people had to do during the Clinton administration. We have to determine, what are you going to actually get done for the American people.”
In the end, still in a position of overlooking the one in favor of the other.
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