Long Island Rep. Peter King wants to break up the “romance” between Donald Trump and his Russian man-crush Vladimir Putin.
King, a Trump backer, said Sunday he still has “real questions” about the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s foreign-policy chops and begged the mogul to quit his infatuation with the Russian leader — telling CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he’s “very concerned about this romance he seems to have with Putin.”
“And as far as his statement that he wants Russia to take care of what is happening in Syria, that’s Barack Obama’s policy,” King added. “But, again, there’s a lot about Donald Trump I like. He’s brought people into the Republican Party. He’s brought in the blue-collar Reagan Democrats, which we had lost over the years.”
King says there’s plenty Trump must do to burnish his qualifications as leader of the free world.
“I’m supporting him as the nominee of the party, but I still have real questions with him as far as national security,” the Republican congressman said.
“I don’t think his Asian policy is coherent, because, again, if he does want to get in a trade war with China, he has to explain how that coincides with him wanting to use China against North Korea.
If he wants to have leverage over China, how can he be talking about taking troops out of Japan and Korea?”
Another congressional Trump backer, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), said Trump will be prone to awkward moments on the trail because “more than most candidates, he’s a work in progress.”
“Usually you know a lot more about a candidate because they’ve run for other things,” Cole told ABC’s “This Week.”
“He does have a shoot-from-the-hip style,” Cole said. “He’s already said things he ought to regret and I think he will regret politically.”