Trump on feuds with senators: "Sometimes it helps, to be honest with you"

President Donald Trump suggested Friday that his personal feuds with Republican lawmakers are an asset, not a liability, because “sometimes it gets people to do what they’re supposed to be doing.”

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Asked about the intraparty fighting between Trump and Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and John McCain of Arizona, the president denied that such clashes hamper his legislative agenda.

“Sometimes it helps, to be honest with you,” the president told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo in a two-part interview to air Sunday and Monday. “So we’ll see what happens in the end.”

Corker, who will not seek reelection in 2018, has been increasingly critical of the president in recent weeks. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this week that the outspoken lawmaker should “get out of the name calling and get back to work.” The Tennessee Republican has called the White House an “adult day care center” and suggested that it’s the president’s top advisers who are keeping the world from chaos.

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