Posted on 05/16/2018 5:14:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Trump did most of the talking at a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans on Tuesday where disagreements between the White House and his congressional allies were pushed to the side.
Trump dominated the room, voicing confidence about the midterm elections, updating lawmakers on diplomatic talks with North Korea and even musing about retiring one day to West Virginia.
He took only two questions from lawmakers during the hourlong meeting which was just as notable for the topics that didn’t come up: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and trade policies that have unnerved senators from agriculture-heavy states.
The story about a White House aide’s derisive comments about McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, dominated headlines and cable news ahead of the meeting.
GOP senators have been publicly calling for the White House to apologize for the staffer’s remark, made at an internal meeting, that McCain’s opposition to CIA director nominee Gina Haspel didn’t matter since he is “dying anyway.”
Just on Monday night, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) called the remarks a “really unfortunate circumstance,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said an apology would be “appropriate” and Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) called the comments “stupid” and “a big mistake.”
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President needs to talk with Republican challengers to incumbent Democrats once they win their primary.
Short chat with house candidates, significant support for Senate hopefuls
meanwhile, mccain is still dying
Maybe the media could play a few clips of the way they themselves treated McCain when he ran against Obama
Its a damn shame that the president has to give the weak and pathetic GOP a pep talk. The party doesn’t understand success.
All that idiot Bret Baier could talk about last night; as well as promoting his book. How that show has fallen in recent years.
“Why are the remarks still be discussed?”
Because McCain’s an anti-Trumper?
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