Trump Stages Rose Garden Meltdown After Blowing Up A Meeting with Pelosi and Schumer ...Updated

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Source: DailyKos





Wednesday May 22, 2019 · 11:05 AM CDT




WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly blew up a scheduled meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday, lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing him of a cover-up and declaring that he could not work with them until they stopped investigating him.

He then marched out into the Rose Garden, where reporters had been gathered, and delivered a statement bristling with anger as he demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with.” He said they could not legislate and investigate at the same time. “We’re going to go down one track at a time,” he said.

...“Speaker Pelosi said something terrible today and accused me of a cover-up,”

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UPDATE: Clear evidence that this was a staged spectacle:

Look at the podium. They already had a sign printed up with “NO Collusion, NO Obstruction”. The numbers are about the cost of the investigations: Mueller investigation by the numbers: $35+ million spent; 2,800+ subpoenas; 675 days; 500+ witnesses; 18 Angry Democrats.

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Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/22/1859604/-Trump-is-melting-down-in-the-Rose-Garden-today?utm_campaign=trending

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poor widdle Trump--crying again. what a victim!!




“I don’t do cover ups” will be remembered in history as Nixon’s “I’m not a crook”- in both cases it’s the crimes AND the cover ups.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Um, orange dumbhead,

you left out: 37 indictments.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Oh, and there was actually a TON of Collusion, and undeniable Obstruction.

That there was no charge of Criminal Conspiracy is only due to the weakness of the current laws against colluding with our enemies to win elections.

But there were a myriad of impeachable offenses in the Mueller Report, Donny-boy.

And if you didn't damn well know that, you wouldn't be blocking everyone from testifying before Congress.

[dem4decades]

2. What a child.

[WePurrsevere]

4. Obviously staged and they left off the 7 convictions so far...

gee... I wonder why?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mueller-s-scorecard-who-s-been-convicted-sentenced-n980731

Mueller's scorecard: Who's been convicted, sentenced
Paul Manafort, who got 47 months in prison on Thursday, is one of seven people convicted to date in the special counsel probe.

(PS... Innocent people don't act like Trump. )

[Achilleaze]

5. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief plays the victim card. Again.

Like always. What a whiney victimy lowlife wanker (R).

Sad.

&f=1

[Chin music]

6. Did you see the 'presidents' note sheet? BIG pictures w talking points. Stuck right out.

If you stop it you can read the top box...Mueller etc.
WOW. Anyone who doesn't think that was pre-planned, How'd he get that Kindergartener Style paper in his hands? He knew they were going to tee up him for the driver shot. As well they should. Infrastructure ruse was probably the only way they could get an "Audience."

[47of74]

7. Fucking man baby

He can go fuck himself.

[riversedge]

8. NYT: Trump Walks Out on Pelosi and Schumer After 3 Minutes

Trump Walks Out on Pelosi and Schumer After 3 Minutes


Trump Walks Out on Pelosi and Schumer After 3 Minutes


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/donald-trump-speech-pelosi-schumer.html


By Peter Baker, Katie Rogers and Emily Cochrane

May 22, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly blew up a scheduled meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday, lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing him of a cover-up and declaring that he could not work with them until they stopped investigating him.

He then marched out into the Rose Garden, where reporters had been gathered, and delivered a statement bristling with anger as he demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with.” He said they could not legislate and investigate at the same time. “We’re going to go down one track at a time,” he said.

The confrontation came on a day when pressure over a possible impeachment effort raised temperatures on both sides of the aisle. Ms. Pelosi arrived at the White House for a session with the president set to talk about infrastructure shortly after meeting with restive House Democrats on Capitol Hill to talk about impeachment. She emerged from that meeting with Democrats accusing Mr. Trump of a “cover-up.”
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After just three minutes, he left the room before anyone else could speak, the Democrat said. From there, he headed to the Rose Garden, where a lectern had been set up with a sign that said “No Collusion, No Obstruction” and gave statistics intended to show that he had cooperated with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

“Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up,” Mr. Trump said. “I don’t do cover-ups.”.....................

[wryter2000]

9. That face

With the cat's anus mouth makes Nixon look handsome.

[procon]

10. Stormy Daniels says Trump does cover ups.

Trump's hair also says he does cover ups. Just sayin....

[abqtommy]

11. I think I saw this

years ago on an episode of The Twilight Zone!

[srobertss]

12. They conveniently forget

The cost of the investigation was covered by the seizure of Manafort’s assets.

[onetexan]

13. "I don't do cover ups" equals "I'm not a crook"

If it quacks like a duck...

[dawnie51]

14. It's like world wrestling fed........

big old over the top circus show. He's the ringmaster. The script gets rewritten every few hours. And the rubes line up to watch. Reality TV. That's all he knows.

[More_Cowbell]

15. It looks like he admitted that he knew about the Trump Tower meeting ahead of time

I'm seeing it only in tweets right now, no story to link to.

He said that Don Jr. "had a meeting and he called me and then he had the meeting after"

eta: I still think that Nancy Pelosi is moving too slowly on impeachment, but there's no denying that she knows just what buttons to push with Trump. He's disintegrating before our eyes.

If the House would at least hold some people in contempt, I could wait a little longer on impeachment (not that I have a choice!)

[librechik]

16. "I don't do coverups!" HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR OWN HAIR????

[Chin music]

20. OHhhhhh ho ho ho. Great one!!!

[Grokenstein]

17. Known Liar Says What, Now?

Yeah, how dare anyone suggest the guy behind Trump U is less than completely honest?

[DeminPennswoods]

18. NDP really knows how to get under Trump's skin

and what buttons to push.

[chowder66]

19. Democrats should hold a press conference with the number of lies he's told, the # of convictions,

the amount of money spent on his golfing, the number of failed policies, the number of dead children, the number of immigrants caged, the number of russian contacts, etc, etc....

[Yonnie3]

21. Locking ...

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