Coburn: ‘I Can’t Back Donald Trump Based on No Answers to Any Questions’

GOLODRYGA: “Senator, why has it taken you and many of your colleagues so long to speak out against Donald Trump?”
COBURN: “Well, you know, I don’t know what — I can’t — I don’t relate to my colleagues right now, as a matter of fact, I’m banned from talking to them for still another ten months. So, I don’t know the answer for that for Washington.”
GOLODRYGA: “How about you personally?”
COBURN: “Yeah, I can’t talk to them. That’s part of the ethics — Senate ethics rules as far as talking to them about anything —”
GOLODRYGA: “No. No. You personally. How come you personally haven’t spoken out against Donald Trump until now?”
COBURN: “Oh, I did two weeks ago. I’ve talked about it all the time. When is he going to answer questions? But the fact is as he may be the nominee of the Republican Party and so, you know, I said when is he going to answer questions? What are the details rather than just superlatives all the time? But the point is — is we do have an electoral process, we’ll have to see how that works and see what happens from there going forward.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Steve Rattner.”
RATTNER: “Senator, you just said in passing some nice things about Senator Cruz and given his strength at the moment in the primary process and the possibility that he is the alternative to Donald Trump, why not back him rather than Marco Rubio?”
COBURN: “Well, because, you know, I’m not — I’m certainly not going to switch. If Marco is not in it — I’m not sure Marco doesn’t win Florida, and if he wins Florida he is right up there with everybody else. If he doesn’t I don’t know if that will be a decision he’ll have to make. And then — then I’ll decide. I certainly right now I can’t back Donald Trump based on no answers to any questions. He kind of is getting a pass and that’s unfortunate for America. They ought to hear — you know, there is an interesting phenomenon going on in our country right now is Bernie Sanders promises all these things and he gets a large amount of votes, things that are impossible to deliver. Donald Trump promises all these things, like a trade war, like tremendously difficult foreign relations given some of his statements, none of which he can deliver, and yet they’re still running neck and neck and in Trump’s case leading for the nomination of two parties. That tells us something about how upset people are —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
COBURN: “— with this country and the government that we have.”