Trump shuns infrastructure talks with Pelosi and Schumer until investigations cease
By Mona Austin
Call it a break down in communication or a an orchestrated stunt to distract the public from additional oversight of the redacted Mueller Report, either way Pres. Donald Trump and the top congressional leaders in the country are not talking. On Wednesday, the collapse in communication occurred when a planned infrastructure meeting between Mr. Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was replaced with unscheduled televised remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
Upset after learning that Pelosi said he is "engaged in a cover up," he complained that Democrats were still continuing a "phony" investigation to determine if he colluded with the Russian government and repeated there was no collusion found after his cooperation with the initial investigation.
TRUMP CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS TO STOP "PHONY" INVESTIGATIONS
PELOSI SPEAKS AFTER INFRASTRUCTURE TALKS BLOW UP: "I PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT OF the UNITED STATES AND I PRAY FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
It appears that being treated as a suspected corrupted criminal has run its course with Mr. Trump as he prepares to officially announce his 2020 bid for re-election in June. But, failure to communicate with politicians who oppose his actions is essentially going to affect voters, some who will consider his inability to work "across the aisle" a flaw.
Pelosi wrote that the president stormed into the 3-minute meeting and threw a temper tantrum, which Trump completely denied later in a tweet. He left the room before the Democrats could speak.
Democrats have insisted they are acting in the interest of honoring processes established in the Constitution and in the interest of the American people. The dramatic tone Pres. Trump carried was fueled by two legal blows this week that indicate Democrats have the law on their side. A federal judge ruled that he must release bank and accounting records. The president had sued to block Deutsche Bank from providing financial records to documents in response to subpoenas issued by House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). On Monday, a federal judge had already ruled that Trump's accounting firm Mazars should comply with the House Oversight and Reform Committee's requests for financial records.
Call it a break down in communication or a an orchestrated stunt to distract the public from additional oversight of the redacted Mueller Report, either way Pres. Donald Trump and the top congressional leaders in the country are not talking. On Wednesday, the collapse in communication occurred when a planned infrastructure meeting between Mr. Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was replaced with unscheduled televised remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
Upset after learning that Pelosi said he is "engaged in a cover up," he complained that Democrats were still continuing a "phony" investigation to determine if he colluded with the Russian government and repeated there was no collusion found after his cooperation with the initial investigation.
TRUMP CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS TO STOP "PHONY" INVESTIGATIONS
PELOSI SPEAKS AFTER INFRASTRUCTURE TALKS BLOW UP: "I PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT OF the UNITED STATES AND I PRAY FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
It appears that being treated as a suspected corrupted criminal has run its course with Mr. Trump as he prepares to officially announce his 2020 bid for re-election in June. But, failure to communicate with politicians who oppose his actions is essentially going to affect voters, some who will consider his inability to work "across the aisle" a flaw.
Pelosi wrote that the president stormed into the 3-minute meeting and threw a temper tantrum, which Trump completely denied later in a tweet. He left the room before the Democrats could speak.
Democrats have insisted they are acting in the interest of honoring processes established in the Constitution and in the interest of the American people. The dramatic tone Pres. Trump carried was fueled by two legal blows this week that indicate Democrats have the law on their side. A federal judge ruled that he must release bank and accounting records. The president had sued to block Deutsche Bank from providing financial records to documents in response to subpoenas issued by House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). On Monday, a federal judge had already ruled that Trump's accounting firm Mazars should comply with the House Oversight and Reform Committee's requests for financial records.
Trump said, “I’ve said from the beginning that you probably can’t go down two tracks. You can go down the investigation track or you can go down the investment track.” He maintained that democratic lawmakers are running phony investigations and he would rather move forward to addressing infrastructure, economy and other aspects of the government. He blamed some of the media for prolonging the so called disgrace of covering the findings of the Mueller Report as if he is guilty. "No obstruction. No collusion," he repeated multiple times.
Pelosi, who has avoided pressing for impeachment, deviating from several leading Democrats, said the president's behavior today was "obstruction of justice right in the face of the American people that can be an impeachable offense..."
The meeting was a follow-up to discuss the particulars of a infrastructure proposal, for which Schumer did not think Trump was prepared. "There were investigations going on three weeks ago when we met — and he still met with us," Schumer said. "Now that he was forced to say how he would pay for it, he had to run away. And he came up with this pre-planned response." Schumer also believes the POTUS ' reaction was a pre-planned bogus gesture that backfired on him. "It's clear that this was planned on the president's part. When we got in the room the curtains were closed. . .To watch what happened in the White House would make your jaw drop. "He stomped into the room, beginning this diatribe. This was a set up. Not a set up on us. He made a fool of himself I think," he told CNN's Don Lemon.
TRUMP TWEETS THAT PELOSI LIED ABOUT HIM HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM
In a letter to her House colleagues, Nancy Pelosi said: “President Trump had a temper tantrum for us all to see.” This is not true. I was purposely very polite and calm, much as I was minutes later with the press in the Rose Garden. Can be easily proven. It is all such a lie!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2019
