Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — A surge of Republican lawmakers denounced President Trump Thursday for his attacks on a prominent woman in the media, signaling a breaking point of sorts for a party weary of the president’s boorish behavior on social media. Evidently offended by comments made by Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s program “Morning Joe,” Trump fired off a pair of tweets that questioned her intelligence, and suggested that she’d had plastic surgery. The president even got in a plug for his private for-profit club in Florida. “I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump wrote at 8:52 Thursday morning. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came . . . to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” The message from Trump was more graphic and more personal than the hundreds of tweets he has sent since becoming president, and unleashed criticism even from voices who don’t typically clash with the president. “Stop it!” reacted Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican of Alaska, on her own Twitter feed. “The Presidential platform should be used for more than bringing people down.” President Trump said Brzezinski’s face was “bleeding.” But a photo taken of her that night appears to cast doubt on his statement. The overwhel... Link to the full article to read more