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Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats
After months of hammering Republicans over their failure to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump huddled this week with moderate House Democrats and Republicans who were trying to sell him on a fix to the health care law.
Upon hearing it had bipartisan support, the president had one question: “Can I call it ‘repeal and replace’?”
“You can call it whatever you want, Mr. President,” a Democratic lawmaker told Trump, eliciting laughter throughout the room.
The president loved that response.
Trump is on a bipartisan tear of late. Elated by what he viewed as glowing press after his debt ceiling deal with Democratic leaders “Chuck and Nancy” last week, Trump wants to replicate that thrill of victory, which he believes Republicans have failed to deliver since his inauguration.
In recent weeks, Trump has complained in private that it’s difficult to have any sort of relationship — or even make small talk — with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He’s told staff that he finds Speaker Paul Ryan, whom he’s dubbed a “boy scout,” dry as well, but the two have some rapport.
By contrast, Trump can relate to Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who talk more in non-Washington terms that he understands, according to people familiar with their meetings. Trump wants to keep meeting with them.
Democrats dismissed as hyperbole Trump's continued insistence that the corporate tax rate would be cut to 15 percent, but they were intrigued by his pledge not to cut taxes for the rich. He also tasked Cohn with setting up a working group on taxes with Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans in the Problem Solvers Caucus. The group met not 24 hours later with Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas).
Contrast that with GOP leadership’s approach on Capitol Hill: The "Big Six" — Cohn, Ryan, McConnell, the top tax Republicans and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — are currently the only ones with a seat at the table in crafting the bill.
“The President was eager to collect tax proposals that could bring Democratic support,” said Problem Solvers Caucus leader Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) “I truly believe it is another step forward in successfully making tax reform a reality.
When a staffer entered the room to say it was time to go, Trump kept talking, according to one lawmaker present. And the intensity of the conversation as well as the presence of Trump’s most senior advisers — including Cohn, chief of staff John Kelly, budget director Mick Mulvaney and legislative liaison Marc Short — caught Democratic attendees by surprise.
“I assumed he was going to lecture us for about an hour and tell us how great he was and talk about the election, but he didn’t do that. It was pretty productive,” said Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), who attended the meeting. “He engaged members and said, ‘What do you want to do?’”
A senior administration official said the only Republican in leadership with whom Trump has a personal connection is House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a back-slapping Californian whose penchant for schmoozing mirrors the president’s. And because of the stale dynamic with GOP leaders, the same person said, “you would have to be an idiot if you didn’t see [his Democrat infatuation] coming.”
During a meeting with New York and New Jersey Democrats last week, Trump called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "my governor" and asked how he could help with New York infrastructure projects, particularly LaGuardia and JFK airports.
Trump also talked about the recovery from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge, a throwback to his hometown. He mused at the gathering that everyone loved the debt ceiling deal he’d struck with Democratic leaders a day earlier because it was “bipartisan” — even if people didn't understand the specifics of it.
One attendee said he grinned so much at Schumer that it was "almost uncomfortable." He shook Schumer's hand repeatedly and said in private he was better at keeping his caucus together than Republicans — and that he wanted to work together more often.
"Schumer just talks to him. You get Mitch and Paul in here, and they're trying to explain this or that, and there is no personal connection,” a White House source said.
The feeling appears to be mutual. Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday telling a colleague that Trump "likes me."
Toward the end of the Problem Solvers Caucus meeting Wednesday, Trump suggested his proposed border wall with Mexico need not be part of a deal allowing “Dreamers” to stay in the country legally — an idea he would later share with Pelosi and Schumer.
Democrats didn't even have to ask, they said in interviews.
Trump also left the door open to backing the Problem Solvers' bipartisan Obamacare fix after the group said at least 20 Democrats would back the bill, giving him a potential big win.
“Is that like that Tennessee Republican’s idea?” Trump asked, according to multiple sources in the room, referring to Sen. Lamar Alexander’s very similar legislation to shore up Obamacare markets — an idea loathed by conservatives.
A few hours later, Trump was “jovial” and laughing with Pelosi and Schumer over Chinese food. They talked about trade policy and relations with China before moving on to DACA.
“It’s clear he’s open to a new world here: to do things together," Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), who leads the Problem Solvers Caucus and attended the meeting, said. "And he said, ‘We’re going to try this. If it doesn’t work, we’ll try a different way.’”
Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats
After months of hammering Republicans over their failure to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump huddled this week with moderate House Democrats and Republicans who were trying to sell him on a fix to the health care law.
Upon hearing it had bipartisan support, the president had one question: “Can I call it ‘repeal and replace’?”
“You can call it whatever you want, Mr. President,” a Democratic lawmaker told Trump, eliciting laughter throughout the room.
The president loved that response.
Trump is on a bipartisan tear of late. Elated by what he viewed as glowing press after his debt ceiling deal with Democratic leaders “Chuck and Nancy” last week, Trump wants to replicate that thrill of victory, which he believes Republicans have failed to deliver since his inauguration.
In recent weeks, Trump has complained in private that it’s difficult to have any sort of relationship — or even make small talk — with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He’s told staff that he finds Speaker Paul Ryan, whom he’s dubbed a “boy scout,” dry as well, but the two have some rapport.
By contrast, Trump can relate to Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who talk more in non-Washington terms that he understands, according to people familiar with their meetings. Trump wants to keep meeting with them.
Democrats dismissed as hyperbole Trump's continued insistence that the corporate tax rate would be cut to 15 percent, but they were intrigued by his pledge not to cut taxes for the rich. He also tasked Cohn with setting up a working group on taxes with Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans in the Problem Solvers Caucus. The group met not 24 hours later with Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas).
Contrast that with GOP leadership’s approach on Capitol Hill: The "Big Six" — Cohn, Ryan, McConnell, the top tax Republicans and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — are currently the only ones with a seat at the table in crafting the bill.
“The President was eager to collect tax proposals that could bring Democratic support,” said Problem Solvers Caucus leader Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) “I truly believe it is another step forward in successfully making tax reform a reality.
When a staffer entered the room to say it was time to go, Trump kept talking, according to one lawmaker present. And the intensity of the conversation as well as the presence of Trump’s most senior advisers — including Cohn, chief of staff John Kelly, budget director Mick Mulvaney and legislative liaison Marc Short — caught Democratic attendees by surprise.
“I assumed he was going to lecture us for about an hour and tell us how great he was and talk about the election, but he didn’t do that. It was pretty productive,” said Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), who attended the meeting. “He engaged members and said, ‘What do you want to do?’”
A senior administration official said the only Republican in leadership with whom Trump has a personal connection is House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a back-slapping Californian whose penchant for schmoozing mirrors the president’s. And because of the stale dynamic with GOP leaders, the same person said, “you would have to be an idiot if you didn’t see [his Democrat infatuation] coming.”
During a meeting with New York and New Jersey Democrats last week, Trump called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "my governor" and asked how he could help with New York infrastructure projects, particularly LaGuardia and JFK airports.
Trump also talked about the recovery from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge, a throwback to his hometown. He mused at the gathering that everyone loved the debt ceiling deal he’d struck with Democratic leaders a day earlier because it was “bipartisan” — even if people didn't understand the specifics of it.
One attendee said he grinned so much at Schumer that it was "almost uncomfortable." He shook Schumer's hand repeatedly and said in private he was better at keeping his caucus together than Republicans — and that he wanted to work together more often.
"Schumer just talks to him. You get Mitch and Paul in here, and they're trying to explain this or that, and there is no personal connection,” a White House source said.
The feeling appears to be mutual. Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday telling a colleague that Trump "likes me."
Toward the end of the Problem Solvers Caucus meeting Wednesday, Trump suggested his proposed border wall with Mexico need not be part of a deal allowing “Dreamers” to stay in the country legally — an idea he would later share with Pelosi and Schumer.
Democrats didn't even have to ask, they said in interviews.
Trump also left the door open to backing the Problem Solvers' bipartisan Obamacare fix after the group said at least 20 Democrats would back the bill, giving him a potential big win.
“Is that like that Tennessee Republican’s idea?” Trump asked, according to multiple sources in the room, referring to Sen. Lamar Alexander’s very similar legislation to shore up Obamacare markets — an idea loathed by conservatives.
A few hours later, Trump was “jovial” and laughing with Pelosi and Schumer over Chinese food. They talked about trade policy and relations with China before moving on to DACA.
“It’s clear he’s open to a new world here: to do things together," Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), who leads the Problem Solvers Caucus and attended the meeting, said. "And he said, ‘We’re going to try this. If it doesn’t work, we’ll try a different way.’”
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The idea of Trump sulking to Kelly, Turtle Mitch and Ryan - Nancy and Chuck get me, you guys don't get me...is hilarious.
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From 2014. He is living out his Twitter history.
Yo...this is just too much.
His entire life is just a projection.
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Lawyer says extradition of oligarch tied to Trump campaign chief imminent
Billionaire Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is at "great risk" of being brought from Austria to face justice in a Chicago courtroom "within weeks," his lawyer told a federal judge Monday.
But prosecutors say they are concerned that Firtash — who is wanted on racketeering charges and has ties to President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort — will jump on a private jet to Russia if a Chicago judge rules against him before he is handed over to U.S. authorities.
They revealed in court for the first time that they wiretapped telephone conversations in which Firtash allegedly discussed a co-defendant's trip to Chicago to meet with Boeing executives.
Firtash, who has friends in Russian President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, has been fighting extradition from Austria since his high profile 2014 arrest in Vienna. Accused of masterminding an international titanium-mining racket involving Boeing, he claims he was targeted by the Obama administration as punishment for Putin's annexation of Crimea.
His lawyer, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, on Monday told U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that Firtash has never been to the U.S., and the crimes of which he is accused all happened in India and had no impact on the U.S.
Webb said he feared Firtash's extradition is imminent, and urged Pallmeyer to throw out the case before Firtash can be put on a Chicago-bound plane.
But prosecutor Amarjeet Bhachu told the judge that the wiretapped conversations linked Firtash to Chicago, and that a bribery scheme also used U.S. banks and cellphones.
He warned the judge that if she ruled against Firtash before he is in U.S. custody, he may "hop on a private plane and head over to Moscow, or to some other country where we can't extradite him."
In a joke about Firtash's enormous wealth (he posted a $174 million bond in Austria), Bhachu added, "We will pay for his travel here."
U.S. interest in the case in recent months has focused on Firtash's links to Manafort, with whom he discussed a New York real estate deal in 2008. Though Manafort is not named in the Chicago case, his home has been raided as part of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's probe of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia.
Billionaire Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is at "great risk" of being brought from Austria to face justice in a Chicago courtroom "within weeks," his lawyer told a federal judge Monday.
But prosecutors say they are concerned that Firtash — who is wanted on racketeering charges and has ties to President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort — will jump on a private jet to Russia if a Chicago judge rules against him before he is handed over to U.S. authorities.
They revealed in court for the first time that they wiretapped telephone conversations in which Firtash allegedly discussed a co-defendant's trip to Chicago to meet with Boeing executives.
Firtash, who has friends in Russian President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, has been fighting extradition from Austria since his high profile 2014 arrest in Vienna. Accused of masterminding an international titanium-mining racket involving Boeing, he claims he was targeted by the Obama administration as punishment for Putin's annexation of Crimea.
His lawyer, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, on Monday told U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that Firtash has never been to the U.S., and the crimes of which he is accused all happened in India and had no impact on the U.S.
Webb said he feared Firtash's extradition is imminent, and urged Pallmeyer to throw out the case before Firtash can be put on a Chicago-bound plane.
But prosecutor Amarjeet Bhachu told the judge that the wiretapped conversations linked Firtash to Chicago, and that a bribery scheme also used U.S. banks and cellphones.
He warned the judge that if she ruled against Firtash before he is in U.S. custody, he may "hop on a private plane and head over to Moscow, or to some other country where we can't extradite him."
In a joke about Firtash's enormous wealth (he posted a $174 million bond in Austria), Bhachu added, "We will pay for his travel here."
U.S. interest in the case in recent months has focused on Firtash's links to Manafort, with whom he discussed a New York real estate deal in 2008. Though Manafort is not named in the Chicago case, his home has been raided as part of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's probe of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia.
Erratic twitter troll trump is back.
Time to up the intelligence leaks
Time to up the intelligence leaks
FYI did Yall ever put into perspective view nuts it was that we got information on the leak that he gave information to Russia about ISIS ??
That leak came straight of the highest echelons of the US government.
That leak came straight of the highest echelons of the US government.
She trolling the fukk outta 45
You internet users in America are on borrowed time...
Got me so fukked up
Hillary alludes to that weird announcement Rudy Giuliani had two days before the fbi said they were reopening the investigation and how he knew ahead of time
This shyt is so strange
This shyt is so strange