Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)With less than a month until presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to name his running mate, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker praised the billionaire's recent comments about Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union.
In a Sunday morning interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Corker said he thought Trump's Friday press conference after the Brexit vote was "one of his best events."
Corker's remarks came in response to a clip Tapper played of Trump discussing the declining value of the British pound. "If the pound goes down, they're going to do more business," Trump told reporters last week while in Scotland. "You know when the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly."
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