Corker ‘badmouths me for wanting to bring’ US troops home: Trump

US President Donald Trump has reignited his feud with Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), saying he “badmouths me for wanting to bring our young people safely back home.”

Trump claimed on Sunday that Corker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is retiring because his poll numbers "tanked" because he failed to obtain his endorsement.

"Senator Bob Corker just stated that, 'I’m so priveledged [sic] to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms,' " Trump tweeted. "But that is Not True - wanted to run but poll numbers TANKED when I wouldn’t endorse him."

"Bob Corker was responsible for giving us the horrible Iran Nuclear Deal, which I ended, yet he badmouths me for wanting to bring our young people safely back home," Trump continued. "Bob wanted to run and asked for my endorsement. I said NO and the game was over. #MAGA I LOVE TENNESSEE!"

Trump also erroneously claimed in October that the Tennessee senator was responsible for the Iran nuclear deal which the billionaire argued didn’t address Washington's concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear energy and ballistic missile programs. Trump withdrew the US from the deal and re-imposed sanctions against Iran.  

"Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal," Trump wrote in an October 8 tweet, hours after Corker tweeted that the White House "has become an adult day care center."

Corker, one of the architects of new Iran sanctions, had actually opposed the nuclear deal that would eventually emerge from negotiations with Iran in July 2015.

The deal "leaves the United States vulnerable to a resurgent Iran wealthier and more able to work its will in the Middle East," Corker wrote in an August 2015 article for the Washington Post. "Congress should reject this deal and send it back to the president."

But despite this, Trump keeps giving him credit for the nuclear agreement.

PressTV-'Do we want to be in Syria forever?' Trump asks

US President Donald Trump defends his decision to pull American troops out from Syria.

Last week, Trump declared victory against Daesh terrorists in Syria and announced his decision to pull out American troops from the country, saying that US troops cannot stay in Syria "forever".

Several senators, including Corker, have accused Trump of making a hasty decision.

“I’m just saddened for our country. I’m saddened for the broken relationships with countries that have been with us. I’m saddened for the many Kurds and others who will likely be killed and slaughtered by either the Syrians or the Turks. I’m saddened for our country in being so unreliable,” Corker said.

Sen. Paul supports US troop withdrawal from Syria

Meanwhile, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky defended Trump's decision to withdraw the American troops in Syria and asked him to end the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan as well.  

"I'm very proud of the President. This is exactly what he promised. And I think the people agree with him, actually," Paul said on Sunday on CNN. 

"I think people believe that we've been at war too long and in too many places. And that we do need to turn attention to problems we have at home here," he said.

"We have a lot of problems in our country and I think people are tired of spending. You know, we spent several trillion dollars on these wars everywhere and I think the President promised that he'd be different," he added.

"We've been there 17 years. We think now we're going to take one more village and we'll get a better negotiated deal?" Paul said on  CBS News, referring to the war in Afghanistan, which began in October 2001. 

Trump tweeted a quote from Paul's interview and thanked him for supporting his decision regarding troop withdrawal from Syria.

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