GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Days after President Donald Trump called Rep. Mark Sanford a ‘nasty guy’ behind closed doors at a GOP conference meeting in front of his colleagues, the South Carolina Republican says he fears Trump has fundamentally reshaped his party and that his fellow Republicans have let Trump get away with it…Sanford lost his primary earlier this month after a rocky relationship with Trump and a tweet in which the President endorsed Sanford’s opponent just hours before polls closed. But Sanford, who has stood up to Trump in private meetings and publicly admonished his style, said he isn’t backing down and he wishes his colleagues wouldn’t either…After Trump called Sanford a ‘nasty guy’ Tuesday [6-19-18], the President tweeted later that members in the room ‘applauded and laughed loudly,’ something members in the room disputed. Sanford told CNN that the tweet was systematic of a broader ‘cancer’ in the party.”
-Lauren Fox, “Mark Sanford strikes back after Trump’s ‘nasty guy’ comments,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 21, 2018 5:57 pm