NEW: Schumer says Trump 'was insulting' to Nancy Pelosi in Turkey discussions
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump berated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a meeting on the president’s handling of the Turkey crisis.
“I asked the president what his plan was to contain ISIS,” Schumer said, referencing the hundreds of ISIS supporters that escaped detention in northern Syria. “He didn’t really have one.” NEW: White House Press Secretary tells me:"The President was measured, factual and decisive, while Speaker Pelosi’s decision to walk out was baffling, but not surprising...While democratic leadership chose to storm out ... everyone else in the meeting chose to stay in the room." pic.twitter.com/eoxZaZ6NzzThe meeting came after what Pelosi said was “a very difficult time for” Trump, referencing the House’s nonbinding resolution that opposes the president’s withdrawal of U.S.
Trump signed an executive order on Monday to impose sanctions and visa bans on top Turkish government leaders as a way to punish them for the country’s forces invading Syria, and said that a small number of U.S. troops would remain in Syria. “I told the president that being from New York, as he was, we’re particularly aware of the problems that terrorism, that an organization like ISIS can create,” Schumer said. “And the fact that someone no less than General [Jim] Mattis has said that ISIS has been enhanced, that the danger of ISIS is so much greater, worries all of us.”
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