{"id":80580,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=80580"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:13:54","slug":"president-trump-on-meeting-with-democratic-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=80580","title":{"rendered":"President Trump on Meeting with Democratic Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you very much.  Good morning.  So I came here to do a meeting on infrastructure with Democrats, not really thinking they wanted to do infrastructure or anything else, other than investigate.  And I just saw that Nancy Pelosi, just before our meeting, made a statement that \u201cWe believe that the President of the United States is engaged in a cover-up.\u201d  Well, it turns out I\u2019m the most \u2014 and I think most of you would agree to this \u2014 I\u2019m the most transparent President, probably in the history of this country.  We have given \u2014 on a witch hunt, on a hoax \u2014 the whole thing with Russia was a hoax, as it relates to the Trump administration and myself.  It was a total horrible thing that happened to our country.  It hurt us in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wuPcb8oqOzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite that, we\u2019re setting records with the economy, with jobs.  We have the most \u2014 most people employed today that we\u2019ve ever had in the history of our country.  We have the best unemployment numbers that we\u2019ve had in the history of our country \u2014 in some cases, 51 years, but generally in the history of our country.  Companies are moving back in.  Things are going well.<\/p>\n<p>And I said, \u201cLet\u2019s have the meeting on infrastructure.  We\u2019ll get that done easily.\u201d  That\u2019s one of the easy ones.  And instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that had just said that I was doing a cover-up.  I don\u2019t do cover-ups.  You people know that probably better than anybody.<\/p>\n<p>And I was just looking at a list of some of the things that we just did: more than 2,500 subpoenas qualified for.  And I let everybody talk.  I let the White House Counsel speak for 30 hours.  Thirty hours.  I have 19 Special Counsel lawyers; 40 FBI agents.  I said, \u201cOpen it all up.  Let them have whatever they want.\u201d  Nearly 500 search warrants.  Think of that: a search warrant.  Did you ever see a search warrant before?  Neither did I.  This was over 500 search warrants.<\/p>\n<p>And of the 19 people that were heading up this investigation, or whatever you want to call it, with Bob Mueller, they were contributors to the Democrat Party, most of them, and to Hillary Clinton.  They hated President Trump.  They hated him with a passion.  They went to her big party after the election that turned out to be a wake, not a party.  It was a wake.  And they were very angry.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people that, after two years and 40 million or 35 million dollars \u2014 it\u2019ll end up being a lot more than that by the time all the bills are paid \u2014 this is what happened.  No collusion.  No obstruction.  No nothing.<\/p>\n<p>They issued 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers.  Think of that, though.  Five hundred witnesses.  And then I have Nancy Pelosi go out and say that the President of the United States engaged in a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u2019ve had a House investigation.  We have Senate investigations.  We have investigations like nobody has ever had before.  And there\u2019s nothing \u2014 we did nothing wrong.  They would have loved to have said we colluded.  They would have loved it.  These people were out to get us, the Republican Party and President Trump.  They were out to get us.  This was a one-sided, horrible thing.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is they said there\u2019s no collusion.  No collusion with Russia.  You heard so much talk about phone calls that my son made to me from this meeting that was set up by GPS Fusion, it looks like \u2014 which is the other side, for those that don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>And for a year, I heard about phone calls went to a special number unauthorized.  And it would have been my son, Don \u2014 who\u2019s a good young man, who\u2019s gone through hell.  And they were calls that must have been made by him before and after the meeting \u2014 three calls.<\/p>\n<p>After massive study and work, they actually found who made the calls.  One was a friend of ours \u2014 a real estate developer.  Great guy.  Most of you know him.  Nice guy.  He loves our country.  And the other one was the head of NASCAR.  Two of them.<\/p>\n<p>So, of the three calls that were so horrible that he had a meeting and he called me and then he had the meeting after and he made two more calls \u2014 and they were written about like this little \u2014 little lines, couple of lines.  Nobody wanted to admit it.<\/p>\n<p>Even last night, we had a great election.  I went there on Monday.  We had a \u2014 an election for Fred Keller.  It was a 50\/50 shot, and he won in a landslide.  We went and we did a rally.  Hardly mentioned today.  And yet, if he lost, it would have been the biggest story in the country \u2014 even bigger than this witch hunt stuff that you guys keep writing about.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s the bottom line: There was no collusion.  There was no obstruction.  We\u2019ve been doing this since I\u2019ve been President.  And, actually, the crime was committed on the other side.  We\u2019ll see how that all turns out.  I hope it turns out well.  But to my way of thinking \u2014 and I know a lot of you agree with me \u2014 the crime was committed on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>This whole thing was a take-down attempt at the President of the United States.  And, honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for the way you report it so it dishonestly \u2014 not all of you, but many of you.  The way you report it.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve said from the beginning, right from the beginning, that you probably can\u2019t go down two tracks.  You can go down the investigation track, and you can go down the investment track or the track of \u201cLet\u2019s get things done for the American people.\u201d  I love the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Drug prices are coming down \u2014 first time in 51 years \u2014 because of my administration.  But we can get them down way lower working with the Democrats.  We can solve the problem on the border in 15 minutes if the Democrats would give us a few votes.<\/p>\n<p>So I just wanted to let you know that I walked into the room and I told Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi, \u201cI want to do infrastructure.  I want to do it more than you want to do it.  I\u2019d be really good at that.  That\u2019s what I do.  But you know what?  You can\u2019t do it under these circumstances.  So get these phony investigations over with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal just wrote today \u2014 just a little while ago, I saw it: \u201cMr. Mueller wasn\u2019t obstructed in any way.\u201d  This is a Wall Street Journal editorial today.  \u201cMr. Mueller wasn\u2019t obstructed in any way.  His copious report\u2026\u201d \u2014 copious \u2014 434 pages.  Now they want to interview all of the same people again.<\/p>\n<p>They want to interview Jerry Nadler, who\u2019s been an enemy of mine for many years.  He fought me in New York \u2014 unsuccessfully, by the way.  I\u2019ve had great success against Jerry.  But he was representing Manhattan, and he would fight me all the time on the West Side railroad \u2014 many times, very unsuccessfully.  He failed.  I come to Washington.  I\u2019ve become President.  And I said, \u201cOh, no, I have Jerry Nadler again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Wall Street Journal: \u201cMr. Mueller wasn\u2019t obstructed in any way.  His copious report was released for all to see, and there was no collusion\u2026\u201d \u2014 this is the Wall Street Journal \u2014 \u201c\u2026and there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.\u201d  That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>But they want to make this a big deal.  Whether or not they carry the big \u201cI\u201d word out \u2014 I can\u2019t imagine that, but they probably would because they\u2019d do whatever they have to do.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s a danger here.  If someday a Democrat becomes President, and you have a Republican House, they could impeach him for any reason \u2014 or her.  Any reason.  We can\u2019t allow that to happen.  We can\u2019t allow it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So when you look at all of the transparency, when you look at all I\u2019ve done \u2014 and I will tell you, my lawyers say, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do this.  You can use presidential privilege.  You don\u2019t have to let your lawyers and all of your staff testify.  You can use presidential privilege, sir.\u201d  \u201cWould you recommend it?\u201d  \u201cWell, you can be transparent or you can be tight.  Being \u2014 if you\u2019ve done nothing wrong, being transparent is better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I said, \u201cI did nothing wrong.  Let\u2019s be transparent.\u201d  So that\u2019s what you have.  All of these things \u2014 look at that \u2014 all of these things.  Five hundred witnesses that I allowed to testify.  It\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>So when they get everything done, I\u2019m all set to \u2014 let\u2019s get infrastructure.  Let\u2019s get drug prices down.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we\u2019re doing tremendous work without them.  We\u2019re doing tremendous executive orders.  A lot of work.  We\u2019ve had a great success.  Most successful economy, perhaps, in our country\u2019s history.  We\u2019ve cut regulations at a level that nobody else has cut them before.  The largest tax cut in the history of the country.  So we\u2019re doing a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>Steve?  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Q    Did Nancy Pelosi give you any assurances that they won\u2019t \u2014 the House won\u2019t look for (inaudible)?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Look, this was very sad because this meeting was set up a number of days ago at 11 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, I hear last night, they\u2019re going to have a meeting, right before this meeting, to talk about the \u201cI\u201d word.  The \u201cI\u201d word.  Can you imagine?  I don\u2019t speak to Russians about campaigns.  When I went to Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, I don\u2019t say, \u201cOh, let\u2019s call Russia.  Maybe they can\u2026\u201d  It\u2019s a hoax.  The greatest hoax in history.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  Go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  Do you view Congress as a co-equal branch of government?  And do you respect their power of oversight?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  I respect the courts.  I respect Congress.  I respect right here where we\u2019re standing.  But what they\u2019ve done is abuse.  This is investigation number four on the same thing \u2014 probably five.  And it really started, I think, pretty much from the time we came down the escalator in Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<p>So I say to you that we\u2019re going to get everything done.  We\u2019re doing a lot without them.  Let them play their games.  We\u2019re going to go down one track at a time.  Let them finish up.  And we\u2019ll be all set.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you very much. Good morning. So I came here to do a meeting on infrastructure with Democrats, not really thinking they wanted to do infrastructure or anything else, other than investigate. 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