"Told You To # Yourself": GOP Senator Tells Trump Off In Profanity-Laced Leaked Texts

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) unloaded on President Donald Trump in a series of profanity-laced private text messages that are now spilling into public view as the retiring Republican prepares to release a tell-all book about his battles with the president and MAGA world.

The fiery exchanges, revealed in reporting on Tillis' forthcoming memoir, How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents, show the North Carolina senator speaking to Trump in remarkably confrontational terms.

"I still want to help but I don't take this bullshit from anyone, including you Mr. President," Tillis wrote in a May 22 message, according to the texts published by POLITICO.

"Save that # for the cowards who don't care if you fail," the retiring senator continued. "I care if you fail and right now we are failing." ---More...

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