No Collusion. No Obstruction. No Tantrum? Trump Fires Back Amid Feud With Pelosi

“I was purposely very polite and calm, much as I was minutes later,” the president vented on Twitter.

President Donald Trump continued to trade barbs with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Wednesday, saying that despite reports he walked out on a meeting with the lawmaker, he in no way had a “temper tantrum.”

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In a letter to her House colleagues, Nancy Pelosi said: “President Trump had a temper tantrum for us all to see.” This is not true. I was purposely very polite and calm, much as I was minutes later with the press in the Rose Garden. Can be easily proven. It is all such a lie!

Donald J. Trump
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Zero is getting done with the Democrats in charge of the House. All they want to do is put the Mueller Report behind them and start all over again. No Do-Overs!

Earlier in the day, Pelosi had declared that Trump was “engaged in a cover up” following the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election. Since then, Trump and his allies have been dodging congressional subpoenas and filing lawsuits en masse to block the release of the president’s financial information, at times flouting the law.

Then, shortly after Trump ended the three-minute meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the president spoke with reporters gathered in the Rose Garden and lambasted the pair, demanding Democrats “get these phony investigations over with,” referring to a spate of probes into Trump’s behavior and finances.

“Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up,” Trump said in the Rose Garden on Wednesday. “I don’t do cover-ups.”