WTF Just Happened Today?

Day 853: Cover-up.


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1/ Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic leadership believes that Trump is “engaged in a cover-up� after meeting with congressional committee leaders. “We believe that the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up,� Pelosi told reporters. “A cover-up. And that was the nature of the meeting.� Trump responded to Pelosi’s comments by storming out of an infrastructure meeting with senior Democrats after only three minutes, before heading to the Rose Garden to host a surprise press conference. “I don’t do cover-ups,� Trump said before declaring that he would refuse to work with Democrats until they stop investigating him. “I want to do infrastructure,� he continued. “I want to do it more than you want to do it. I’d be really good at that - that’s what I do. But you know what? You can’t do it under these circumstances. So get these phony investigations over with.� (New York Times / NBC News / Axios / Reuters / CNBC / ABC News)

  • Analysis: The various cover-ups of Donald ‘I don’t do cover-ups’ Trump. “I don’t do cover-ups,â€� he said. “You peopleâ€� — the media — “know that probably better than anybody.â€� (Washington Post)

  • ‘I pray for the president,’ Pelosi says after Trump cuts short infrastructure meeting, blasts Democrats. “In an orchestrated – almost to an ‘oh, poor baby’ point of view – he came into the room and said that I said that he was engaged in a cover-up and he couldn’t possibly engage in a conversation on infrastructure as long as we are investigating him,â€� Pelosi said. (Boston Globe / The Hill)

  • Trump rails about impeachment, says Democrats are fishing. Trump claimed that his approval rating “would be at 65%â€� if there were no investigations. (NBC News)

    2/ The House Intelligence Committee reached a last-minute deal with the Justice Department over the redacted material in the Mueller report and announced that it will not enforce the subpoena against Attorney General William Barr. The DOJ agreed to turn over the material and the underlying information in Mueller’s report, but committee chairman Adam Schiff said the subpoena “will remain in effect and will be enforced should the Department fail to comply with the full document request.� Schiff said he expects the DOJ to finish turning over the 12 categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence material from Mueller’s report “by the end of next week.� In a letter sent to Schiff on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd warned that “the Department will not likely be able to continue to work with the Committee to accommodate its interest in these materials� if the committee takes “the precipitous and unnecessary action of recommending a contempt find...

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