WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump’s suggestion that lawmakers abandon their investigations of the administration is a “threat” that has no place in Congress.
Pelosi told reporters Wednesday “the president should not bring threats to the floor of the House.”
Trump in his state of the union address Tuesday said “ridiculous partisan investigations” could harm the economy.
Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer showed no sign of relenting on the congressional investigations of the Trump administration and Russian interference in the elections.
Schumer in Senate floor remarks Wednesday asked what Trump’s “afraid of?”
If Trump wasn’t afraid of something “that might be there that he did that was wrong” he would “shrug his shoulders,” Schumer said, and let the investigations go forward.
No one in the mainstream media mentioned that OrangeAnus did not thank the Speaker for letting him speak in the House. It’s courtesy that he obviously lacks.
Trump is right about ridiculous partisan investigations. Fortunately, the Democrats in the House will only be convening serious investigations, so nothing to worry about.
This statement by Nancy Pelosi is as much or more important than “No Wall”
Claire McCaskill was observing last night that Trump was serving notice that “The Investigation Stops or Legislative Processes as We Know it Will Stop”
One would think that Trump would welcome the vindication the investigations will produce for him.