Posted on 12/11/2018 12:54:53 PM PST by mikelets456
President Trump on Tuesday angrily threatened a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t fund his long-promised border wall during a heated White House sit-down with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
“I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. The people of this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems pouring into our country,” the president told the Senate minority leader during a remarkable, tense exchange as the cameras rolled.
“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you. I’m going to shut it down for border security,” Trump said.
Schumer had prodded the president by noting that Trump had repeatedly threatened to shut down the government in the past.
“Twenty times you called for it, [saying,] ‘I will shut down the government if I don’t get my wall.’ You said it. You said it,” he said.
Both Schumer and Pelosi, the House minority leader, repeatedly told Trump they wanted a deal that could pass both the House and the Senate, and that they should all agree to not shut the government down.
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What I saw was President Trump pointing out, over and over, that the Democrats are the ones stalling the border wall construction.
Transparency! It’s whats for dinner.
Pelosi wanted the conversation out of the public eye so she could say whatever she wanted to say about the meeting, and the President. She’s a terrible liar.
Pelosi and Schumer are Democrat thieves just trying to keep the stealing going.
Pelosi AND Schumer were humiliated on NATIONAL TV!
WE HAVE NEVER HAD A PRESIDENT THIS AWESOME IN MY LIFETIME AND I’M 64 IN A MONTH!................
The sequence of those statements is wrong and intentionally re-sequenced to make Trump look as bad as possible. They want the public to think the dems are being reasonable and Trump is unreasonable. The msm is pushing an agenda, not report the news.
They preached ‘TRANSPARENCY’ and now that they got it they don’t like it!...............
We, in Florida, have what is called ‘The Sunshine Law’.
NO STATE GOVERNMENT BUSINESS DONE IN SECRET. THE MEDIA MUST BE ALLOWED TO RECORD ALL MEETINGS. EVEN TALK ABOUT LAWS OR STATE BUSINESS OVER LUNCH ARE FORBIDDEN. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED FOR BREAKING THIS LAW! THIS GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LOCAL COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENTS. WE NEED THIS LAW AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL!...............
Pelosi wanted the conversation out of the public eye so she could say whatever she wanted to say about the meeting, and the President. She’s a terrible liar.
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She was trying SOOOO hard to try and sound intelligent, but just came off as a bird-brained idiot. I don’t blame her for not wanting the public to see just how incredibly stupid she really is.
I tried to link the story from “The right scoop” but FR would not let me post it-— they [Right Scoop] actually had the story correct and in the correct order.
This was a freaking PR disaster for SanFranNan and ChuckiCheez.
You touted “transparency”, b!tches, you got it. MAGA!
When government shuts down people blame politicians... Nancy and Chuck are politicians... Trump isn’t one. That’s their problem and it’s a problem that could be the end of Nancy’s career, or what’s left of it.
She’s gotta be angry. Trump ambushed her and she wasn’t prepared. It was very transparent... for all to see. Lol.
I loathe Pelosi & Schumer!
THIS is WHY Trump does Twitter——He can make his own remarks & the media cannot filter them or twist them.
The tricks here are what the alphabet swill mills will play and edit out and present when they offer this discussion to the public. Leastwise what the NY Post offers seems to be fair.
Agree, it was a public beating, exposing these open-border pro-criminal stooges for what they are.
National propaganda news edited the crap out of the exchange.
I'll be 65 next month (1/9) and you are RIGHT !!
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