NY Post "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer stormed out of a White House sitdown on Syria with President Trump after he called Pelosi “ a third-rate politician” and a Communist sympathizer in what the House speaker termed “a meltdown.”
“ 'He was insulting, particularly to the speaker. She kept her cool completely. But he called her a third rate politician. He said that there are communists involved and you guys might like that,” Schumer said.
“ 'This was not a dialogue. It was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts, particularly the fact of how to curtail ISIS, a terrorist organization that aims to hurt the United States,” he said.
"Pelosi said Trump was shaken by an earlier House vote condemning his decision to pull troops from northern Syria."
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"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blamed Pelosi, as did the White House.
“ 'To storm out of a meeting, which I’ve watched time before, during other crisis, is really not — the ability of a speaker, or the style of how a Speaker should carry herself,” McCarthy told reporters.
“ '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,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told PBS.
"Along with Trump and Esper, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin attended the meeting.
"Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Jack Reed, (D-RI), were also there, among other senators. A bi-partisan group of House members also attended."
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