(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)In a candid and lengthy interview with Politico Magazine, Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) said that Donald Trump has “fanned the flames of intolerance,” one of a string of criticisms that the former governor leveled at the president. The president, Sanford says, “has fanned the flames of intolerance.” He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the media’s coverage of terrorist attacks. You’re a winner,” Trump told him, as Sanford recalls. When Alberta asked whether Trump was an “honest man,” Sanford replied that he had to be careful. “I admired his conviction in the campaign,” Sanford told Politico Magazine of Ryan.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2017 19:56 UTC