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Transcript of Trump’s remarks about Democrats at the White House - The Boston Globe

posted onMay 28, 2019
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Article snippet: President Trump blasted Democrats after cutting short a planned meeting on infrastructure on Wednesday. Below is a transcript of his remarks. THE PRESIDENT: 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 “We believe that the President of the United States is engaged in a cover-up.” Well, it turns out I’m the most -- and I think most of you would agree to this -- I’m the most transparent President, probably in the history of this country. We have given -- on a witch hunt, on a hoax -- 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. Despite that, we’re setting records with the economy, with jobs. We have the most -- most people employed today that we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We have the best unemployment numbers that we’ve had in the history of our country -- in some cases, 51 years, but generally in the history of our country. Companies are moving back in. Things are going well. And I said, “Let’s have the meeting on infrastructure. We’ll get that done easily.” That’s 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 tha... Link to the full article to read more

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