Trump gives senators a lesson on how to filibuster

politico.com ^ | 5/15/18 | BURGESS EVERETT, HEATHER CAYGLE, ELIANA JOHNSON and ELANA SCHOR

[cotton1706]

President Donald Trump showed a roomful of long-winded senators how to wage a filibuster on Tuesday. Trump showed up to the Senate for a rare confab with GOP senators and spoke for nearly an hour, essentially uninterrupted. He managed to sidestep all controversy — namely, his aide’s joke last week about John McCain’s vote not being needed on CIA Director Gina Haspel because he’s “dying anyway.”

Instead, Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill was something of a campaign rally, for an audience of 50 VIPs.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said he wanted to bring up the White House aide’s disparaging comment about McCain but wasn’t given the opportunity.

“There was no time. There were two questions. He spoke for a long time. All of us had our hands up ready to ask questions but ran out of time,” Flake said.

[SuperLuminal]

Genius!

[Toughluck_freeper]

McCain, an ill-tempered man well known as being one of the most loud mouthed, bullying, vulgar voices in the senate needs protection from an insensitive but factual comment made in confidence at an internal meeting that was later leaked?

Come on!

What I want to see is pushback in the form of video, audio, recordings of McCain melting down in one of his famous tirades... let’s compare the ‘appropriateness’ of the comments, and let’s judge who should be fired from their job. McCain would win that competition handily

[wgmalabama]

Juan will burn in hell. As he deserves.