President Trump jokingly admitted that he thought about moving his meetings on Wednesday afternoon so he could watch the rest of special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two House committees.
“I couldn’t watch it all, I had meetings, I had economic development meetings and I was saying, ‘fellas, maybe we could move it to another time,’ but I didn’t want to do that,” he said during a phone-in interview with his good friend and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Trump also admitted he watched more of the hearing than he wanted to, calling it “sort of good television” and praising Republicans for “representing themselves brilliantly.”
“I wasn’t going to watch it all and then I started thinking about it and then I watched a little bit at the very beginning and I couldn’t believe what I was saying. I ended up watching more than I wanted to,” he said. “And then I watched the afternoon because you know, it was such a big crater at the beginning and I said, now I have to watch shifty shift because he just went through three hours and now he has to go through shifts and I said this is going to be very interesting. I’ve never seen anything like it, actually. It was sort of good television.”
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For me, the most alarming part of his interview with Hannity was his consistently referring to the investigation as treason. Oh well, just another day.
But, it is so nice that we have a president who is able to set aside 7+ hours of his workday to watch TV…
The nation has yet to collapse from within or fall off a ledge into the void. If nothing else Trump’s term can console us the office of President is possibly not as vital as many presume. Obviously doing nothing all day in the Oval Office is possible and the sun still rises the next morning.
What? Trump actually did some work??? On executive time???
And donnie boy …testifying and telling the truth is not treason. Colluding with a hostile foreign power to destroy our elections very well may be treason. Just so we are clear, donnie.
I doubt he rescheduled meetings to watch the hearing. Maybe “Tom & Jerry”, but nothing like the hearings which would require his full attention.
Mueller confirmed that you committed crimes, and your takeaway was it was “good television”? We have Sir Walter Elliott in the White House.