Trump Walks Out Of White House Meeting With Key Democrats

Negotiations over a potential infrastructure program fizzled on Wednesday as a White House meeting between President Trump and Democrats escalated into blame-trading and political threats — including impeachment.

The president was the first to appear after the session in a Rose Garden availability that he used to renew his call for Democrats to abandon investigations into him if they want to negotiate over improving the nation's roads and bridges or other legislation.

"I told the Democrats ... I want to do infrastructure," Trump said. "I'd be really good at that....

“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...