和党参议员詹姆斯·兰福德(James Lankford)周日承认，他不相信唐纳德·特朗普总统“作为一个人是很多年轻人的榜样”，他给人的印象“肯定”不是他打算抚养孩子的方式。
在哥伦比亚广播公司的一次露面中面向国家主持人玛格丽特·布伦南与民主党参议员克里斯·孔斯一起，要求兰福德就共和党在正在进行的弹劾程序中对特朗普道德观的批评发表评论。
“在弹劾克林顿期间，我们经常听到共和党人的批评和要求美国总统成为道德领袖的呼声，我们也听到了道德上的失败，”她说。“这些天，你会悄悄地听到共和党人对总统的批评，但你不会像20年前那样听到如此响亮的批评。”
“发生了什么变化？”布伦南问道。
“我不确定是否有什么改变，”俄克拉荷马州参议员回应道。“关于政策、负责任的领导和榜样，仍有这种持续的对话。”
“我不认为特朗普总统作为一个人是很多年轻人的榜样。那是我个人。我不喜欢他发推特的方式，他说的一些话，”他继续说道。“他的选词有时不是我的选词。他给人的印象是，纽约市比我在中西部的印象更大。这绝对不是我抚养孩子的方式。”
兰福德继续说，尽管存在分歧，但他们都同意“政策领域”，包括特朗普坚定的反堕胎立场和尊重宗教信仰。
“对一个有信仰的人来说，对一个相信有正确方式做事的人来说，这也是一个巨大的挑战，我希望他在这些领域能成为更多的榜样，”他说。“我看着他做出的一些道德决定，然后说，‘我不同意。’但是他也非常保护生活领域，宗教自由领域，让人们能够实践他们的信仰。"
本月早些时候，众议院投票通过了两项针对特朗普的弹劾条款——滥用权力和阻挠国会。弹劾程序的核心是美国总统和乌克兰总统沃洛迪米尔·泽兰斯基(Volodymyr Zelensky)7月份的电话，其间特朗普要求其外国同行调查前副总统乔·拜登的家人。
一名对他们的谈话和国会批准的对乌克兰的3.91亿美元援助感到担忧的告密者提出了正式投诉，最初引发了弹劾调查。从那以后，特朗普在社交媒体上一再攻击告密者。据报道，周五午夜前几分钟，总统转发了一篇确认举报人姓名的帖子。据报道，转发消失到周六早上，大多数用户的订阅源上，尽管它对一些用户仍然可见；Twitter后来将此归因于技术故障。
记者没有核实举报人的身份。
REPUBLICAN SENATOR ADMITS TRUMP ISN'T A 'ROLE MODEL' FOR CHILDREN, SAYS HE'S 'NOT THE WAY I'M RAISING MY KIDS'
Republican Senator James Lankford admitted on Sunday that he doesn't believe President Donald Trump "as a person is a role model for a lot of youth" and how he comes across is "definitely" not the way he intends to raise his children.
During an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation with Democratic Senator Chris Coons, host Margaret Brennan asked Lankford to comment on GOP criticisms of Trump's morality amid the ongoing impeachment proceedings.
"During the Clinton impeachment, we often heard from Republicans the criticism and the call for an American president to be a moral leader, and we heard about moral failings," she said. "These days you will quietly hear criticism of the president from Republicans, but you don't hear that loud criticism in the way we did 20 years ago."
"What has changed?" Brennan asked.
"I'm not sure if anything has changed," the Oklahoma senator responded. "There's still this ongoing conversation about policy and about responsible leadership and about role models."
"I don't think that President Trump as a person is a role model for a lot of youth. That's me personally. I don't like the way that he tweets, some of the things that he says," he continued. "His word choices at times are not my word choices. He comes across with more New York City swagger than I do from the Midwest. That's definitely not the way that I'm raising my kids."
Lankford goes on to say that despite their differences, there are "policy areas" they both agree on, including Trump's staunch pro-life stance and honoring religious faith.
"It's also been a grand challenge to say, for a person of faith, for a person who believes there's a right way to go on things, I wish that he was more of a role model in those areas," he said. "I look at some of the moral decisions that he's made and go, 'I disagree with that.' But he's also been very protective of areas of life, areas of religious liberty, allowing someone to be able to live their faith out."
The House of Representatives earlier this month voted to approve two impeachment articles—abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—against Trump. At the heart of the impeachment proceedings is a July phone call between the U.S. president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump asked his foreign counterpart to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
A whistleblower concerned with their conversation and the holding of $391 million in congressionally-approved aid to Ukraine lodged a formal complaint, which initially sparked the impeachment inquiry. Since then, Trump has repeatedly attacked the whistleblower on social media. Minutes before midnight on Friday, the president reportedly retweeted a post that identified the alleged name of the whistleblower. The retweet reportedly disappeared by Saturday morning on most users' feeds, although it remained visible to some users; Twitter later attributed that to a technical glitch.
Newsweek has not verified the identity of the whistleblower.
