Analysis In Trumps White House, there is no right or wrong. There is only winning or losing.
It is not really accurate to say that the White House responded on Tuesday to the harsh criticisms leveled against President Trump by retiring Republican senators Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.). During an afternoon media briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't even attempt to engage with the substance of what either man said.
Instead, she offered a retort that can be summarized like this: Trump is a winner. Corker and Flake are losers.
Witness this exchange between Sanders and Politico's Matthew Nussbaum:
NUSSBAUM: So, we have two Republican senators, just now, today — so there's Corker and Flake — calling the president's behavior “unacceptable” and “dangerous,” saying that he regularly tells untruths. Sen. Flake just called on his fellow Republicans to end what he called “complicity and accommodation.” I'm wondering: What's the White House's response to this criticism coming from two Republican senators?
SANDERS: I think that we support the American people on this one. I think that the people, both in Tennessee and Arizona, supported this president, and I don't think the numbers are in the favor of either of those two senators in their states.
Notice that Sanders didn't bother to defend Trump's conduct. She didn't say that it is acceptable or that it is not dangerous. All she said was that Trump won Tennessee and Arizona last fall, while suggesting that Corker and Flake would have lost in 2018 had they not decided to retire.
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