'Very, Very, Very Strange.' How Nancy Pelosi's Meeting With Trump Went Down

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Published: May 22, 2019
Author: Philip Elliott
Post Date: 2019-05-22 21:08:52 by BTP Holdings
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'Very, Very, Very Strange.' How Nancy Pelosi's Meeting With Trump Went Down

Philip Elliott 5 hrs ago

© J. Scott Applewhite—AP Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi responds to reporters as she departs after meeting with all the House Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

Nancy Pelosi began her day preparing to talk infrastructure with President Donald Trump. By the afternoon, it was clear that was not going to be the subject of the day.

On Wednesday morning, the House Speaker met with fellow Democrats in a closed-door session, telling them they had power only in staying united and asking for them to stay the course on their efforts to hold the Trump Administration accountable.

Although Pelosi has urged Democrats to stay away from impeachment talk for now, she did tell them that that Trump’s all-out fight against congressional oversight and other actions seemed to her to amount to a “coverup.”

That struck a nerve at the White House, where the President is particularly sensitive to any discussion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation or other scandals.

A short time later, Pelosi was left waiting for 15 minutes in the White House’s Cabinet Room, along with her colleagues from the House and Senate. The plan was to meet with Trump about a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Instead, Trump roared into the room, didn’t greet the individuals gathered and declared any cooperation with the Democratic-led House was dead until Democrats ended their investigations. The meeting lasted, according to a Democratic aide, “no more than three minutes.”

Trump then headed to the Rose Garden, where reporters had gathered with little advance notice. In a brief statement, he said he had told the Democrats that he couldn’t work with them “under these circumstances.”

That didn’t seem to affect Pelosi. Appearing midday at a policy conference organized by a liberal think tank, she offered her version of events. “It was very, very, very strange,” Pelosi told a Center for American Progress confab.

In Pelosi’s telling, she and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer arrived at the White House prepared to negotiate the details of a major overhaul of the nation’s roads, bridges and airports. Under terms that had been worked out through back channels, the federal government would pick up 80% of the bill, with state and local governments picking up the rest. Likening it to Teddy Roosevelt’s big lift in creating the national park system, Pelosi said she was ready to give Trump a once-a-century win.

“We want to give this President the opportunity to do something historic for our country,” Pelosi said. “I pray for him and I pray for the United States of America.”

But Pelosi showed no signs of backing down from her assessment or agenda.

“The fact is, in plain sight, this President is obstructing justice and is engaged in a coverup — and that could be impeachable,” Pelosi said to thunderous applause from the liberal audience. “As they say, the coverup is frequently worse than the crime.”

Still, Pelosi is facing some rumbling inside her Democratic caucus. While five of the six chairs of committees investigating Trump have said impeachment remains off the table, some rank-and-file lawmakers are slowly heeding activists’ calls for the start of impeachment. Over the weekend, Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan became the first Republican to join that camp.

Trump is doing himself few favors. After he stormed out the Cabinet Room, Trump called reporters to the Rose Garden for a 10-minute diatribe against the investigations he has faced. With a “no obstruction, no collusion” placard on his podium, Trump lashed out at Democrats. “Instead of walking in happily to a meeting, I walk into to look at people who said I was doing a coverup,” Trump said.

He followed up with a string of tweets following that assertion.

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131243663948959745

Schumer said after Trump’s Rose Garden meltdown that “to watch what happened in the White House would make your jaw drop.”

For her part, Pelosi remains focused on the big picture. When asked at the Center for American Progress event about impeachment, Pelosi urged measured restraint. “I’m not sure we get more information if we do an impeachment inquiry” versus the current oversight efforts, she said. It’s an argument she made at the start of her day, too. And, at least for now, most her caucus seems to be standing by him.

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#1: ghostdogtxn    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

ghostdogtxn posted on 2019-05-23 00:06:20   Reply   Private Reply


#2: randge    To: ghostdogtxn (#1)

Many years ago pointing at an article about the war in Vietnam, an effing communist taught me how to "read between the lines" in a newspaper. Today I "read between the lines" in an article written by an effing communist.

. . . doing himself few favors . . . stormed out [of] the Cabinet Room . . . a 10-minute diatribe . . . lashed out at Democrats . . .

Those who cannot see the supposed "mainstream" writer sticking in the knife deserve what the hell they are getting. Getting by the bucket load.

randge posted on 2019-05-23 08:27:12   Reply   Private Reply


#3: Lod    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

That struck a nerve at the White House, where the President is particularly sensitive to any discussion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation or other scandals.

Enough of that garbage.

The only "scandal" was Trump kicking the PIAPS ass.

Lod posted on 2019-05-23 09:07:51   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Cynicom    To: ghostdogtxn (#1)

D'Alesandro

Viewing the background of Thomas D'Alesandro and family is very interesting.

The family has always been a slime family, way back to Italy when they claimed to be Catholics, which they were not and are not. Even murder tainted her family.

About 70 years ago I lived in Baltimore and her family was openly discussed as corrupt to the core. Sick and corrupt then and she is carrying on.

Cynicom posted on 2019-05-23 09:34:35   Reply   Private Reply


#5: randge    To: Lod (#3)

PIAPS.

Ever on the offense. She and her army.

Will be bad when cornered & we're getting damned close to that.

It's going to get even more interesting when the Bucket drops.

randge posted on 2019-05-23 11:04:02   Reply   Private Reply


#6: Lod    To: All (#3)

email i just received that sums it up for most of us ~

Donald R. "Dick" Ivey , PhD, is a minister, educator, technology executive, entrepreneur, Marine Corp Veteran, and straight-shooting Republican patriot from Celina, Texas, who is fed up! Here's what he has to say today.

“I am now in my 70's.

Recently I received a questionnaire and request for money from the Republican Party and strongly agree with every question, as I have ever since Obama was elected.

Unfortunately, the one question that was missing is:

What have the Republicans done for the American people?

We gave you a majority in the House and Senate, and you never listened to us.

Now you want our money, my money, more money. You should be more concerned about our votes, not our money.

You are the establishment which means all you want is to save your jobs and line your pockets. Well guess what? It's not going to happen.

So far, TRUMP hasn't asked for a dime.

You might think we are fools because you feel Trump is on a self-destruct course but look beyond Washington and listen to the masses. Nobody has achieved what he has, especially in the state of New York.

Here's why I wanted Trump. Yes, he's a bit of an ass; yes, he's an egomaniac; but I don't care.

The country is a mess because politicians suck.

The Republican Party is two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere. I want it all fixed!

I don't care that Trump is crude. I don't care that he insults people. I don't care that he has changed positions. I don't care that he's been married 3 times.

I don't care that he fights with Megan Kelly and Rosé O'Donnell. I don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist.

Our country has become weak, and bankrupt. Our enemies are making fun of us. We are being invaded by illegals. We are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Husain is a group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in, AND I JUST WANT IT FIXED.

And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what We The People want and need.

I'm sick of politicians, sick of the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, and sick of illegals. I just want this thing fixed!

Trump may not be a saint, but he doesn't have lobbyist money controlling him; he doesn't have political correctness restraining him; all you know is that he has been very successful; a good negotiator; he has built a lot of things; and, he's also not a politician.

I don't care if the guy has bad hair, and like John Bennett said, "sometimes a country needs a Mother Teresa and sometimes it needs a Dirty Harry.”

Oh, and by the way, I don't care if Sheriff Joe didn't obey a zealot judge, he upheld the law on illegal immigration. So, I'm glad Trump pardoned him.

You are welcome to pass this on, or not.

Thought for the Day: "No country can sustain, in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive!"

Sincerely, Donald R. "Dick" Ivey, PhD, Celina, TX

P.S No Borders, No Language, No Culture = No Country.

Lod posted on 2019-05-23 11:41:43   Reply   Private Reply


#7: octavia    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

He held it in longer than I could have. I have never seen such unwavering hatred as is coming from the left. I used to consider myself a Democrat, then I fell for Ron Paul and switched parties. They are planning on harassing him out of office. The violence against Trump supporters is appalling as well. This is not going to end well.

octavia posted on 2019-05-23 18:15:51   Reply   Private Reply


#8: Cynicom    To: octavia (#7)

This is not going to end well.

Amen and amen...

I well recall the 1930s and FDR.

Now we have one party and the news media in one grand cabal. Openly and in our faces. This country will go down, the only question being whether from within or without. This government, elected and civil service is rotten top to bottom.

This country WILL GO DOWN EITHER FROM WITHIN OR WITHOUT, it will go down.

Cynicom posted on 2019-05-23 19:40:02   Reply   Private Reply


#9: ghostdogtxn    To: Cynicom (#8)

ghostdogtxn posted on 2019-05-24 00:53:10   Reply   Private Reply


#10: Cynicom    To: ghostdogtxn (#9)

It won't go down from without. Within? Maybe. I doubt it, though. We've been through worse

Worse? Not that I recall in my lifetime.

The Russian/Communist infestation of our government after WWI was a parallel. That entire network of non elected government officials was hell bent on bringing this country down.

Now with communism long dead, ONE HAS TO WONDER...WHAT IS THE GLUE THAT IS HOLDING THIS EXPANSIVE GROUP TOGETHER????

One would have to be rather naive to believe that Clapper, Comey, Brennen and the rest, just happened to decide to arrange and guarantee the election of a President of their choice. Trump and Barr are looking for the "glue" that holds this expansive group together and gave them marching orders.

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#11: GreyLmist    To: Cynicom, 4 (#10)

The Russian/Communist infestation of our government after WWI was a parallel. That entire network of non elected government officials was hell bent on bringing this country down.

Now with communism long dead, ONE HAS TO WONDER...WHAT IS THE GLUE THAT IS HOLDING THIS EXPANSIVE GROUP TOGETHER????

One would have to be rather naive to believe that Clapper, Comey, Brennen and the rest, just happened to decide to arrange and guarantee the election of a President of their choice. Trump and Barr are looking for the "glue" that holds this expansive group together and gave them marching orders.


The glue, imo, is Globalist/World Communism aka Trotskyism - the link here between Leftist/"Progressive"/Democrats and so-called "Rightwing/Republican" Neocons, the origins of which are Trotsky but they're obscured as "Fascists" as if that's something "corporate controlled" and worse than Communism (gov.all), when Fascism is actually (imo): Communism at the level of nation states for organizational purposes and so on under the directorate of World Communism/Trotskyism. What appears to be Communism v. Fascism (Mussolini/Hitler/Stalin - National "Socialists"
circa WWII) is an optical illusion of sorts, for "historical narrative" control purposes, that is basically just Communist
in-fighting amongst themselves for distribution of power.

During WWI, Lenin observed that the West focused industry, agriculture and labor on economic production to help their military war efforts and then, after that war, went back for the most part to business as usual - other than the newer industries of aviation, tanks and weapons manufacturing. When Lenin's Bolsheviks were taking over Russia, there was a Civil War. He declared the formation of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars or "Sovnarkom". They cancelled all foreign debts and refused to pay interest owed on them. The only tax allowed was the ‘Extraordinary Revolutionary Tax’, which was targeted at the rich and not the workers. He also implemented what he called War Communism, based to some extent on the temporary WWI economic model of the West but was more extreme and intended to be the Bolshevik's permanent economic model of .gov Militarism there. He took over all production of food and industry that he could and imposed a rationing-ratio system of 4:3:2:1. The people were divided into four categories – 1. manual workers in harmful trades, 2. workers who performed hard physical labour, 3. workers in light tasks/housewives and 4. wealthier peasants aka "Kulaks" aka the bourgeoisie professional class. Kulaks were being deliberately starved and many cities in western Russia faced famine as a result of chronic food shortages.

After the Russian Civil War, there was resistance over the food confiscation and rationing system that could no longer be "justified" by war conditions. So, in 1921, Lenin had to suspend his War Communism economic plan of total control (which is the World Communism model, ie. Trotskyism) and recalibrate it down to what he called the "New Economic Policy"/NEP, which is the intermediate/compartmentalization of Global Communism at the national level (i.e. Fascism, as it came to be dubbed).

End of Intro at this post. More on what happened next in another with info sources included.

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#12: ghostdogtxn    To: Cynicom (#10)

ghostdogtxn posted on 2019-05-24 21:03:36   Reply   Private Reply


#13: Lod    To: ghostdogtxn (#12)

it's the bombardment of social media that makes it seem worse

The total information society can quickly become overwhelming.

Lod posted on 2019-05-24 22:03:55   Reply   Private Reply