GOP senator breaks over missile tests
By Mark Moore
May 26, 2019 | 3:53pm
A Republican member of the Senate Armed Services committee on Sunday broke with the White House over North Korea’s recent missile launches after President Trump tweeted he wasn’t “disturbed” by the latest provocation by leader Kim Jong Un.
“I find them very disturbing, and certainly wouldn’t trust Kim Jong Un,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think we need to keep our eyes on North Korea, I understand the president wants to maintain a relationship with North Korea so that we can work with them. However, those strikes are disturbing.”
Her comments come after Trump, tweeting from Japan where’s he’s attending a state visit, said Kim’s regime “fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me.”
Ernst said Japan, which is within striking distance, should find the firings troublesome ...
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Will she actually do something about it, or back down in the days to come? Talk is cheap, I hope she is willing to stand her ground and not let trump get away with this, then maybe, just maybe, some of the other republicans will grow a spine. 
