Trump slams ‘partisan' probes after Pelosi announces coronavirus committee: ‘Here we go again’
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President Trump, speaking at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday, unloaded on Democrats who have created a new House committee with subpoena authority to investigate the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Also during the press conference, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that the first round of stimulus checks will be directly deposited into Americans’ bank accounts in the next two weeks. And, Trump revealed he had again tested negative for coronavirus.
"We have seen Americans unite with incredible selflessness and compassion," Trump began. "I want to remind everyone here in our nation's capital, especially in Congress, that this is not the time for politics, endless partisan investigations. Here we go again. They've already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years."
"It's witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt," Trump continued. "And in the end it's people doing the witch hunt who are losing --- and they've been losing by a lot. And it's not any time for witch hunts."
Speaking of the virus, Trump said: "It's time to get this enemy defeated. Conducting these partisan investigations during a pandemic is a really big waste of vital resources, time, attention. And we want to fight for American lives, not waste time and build up my poll numbers, because that's all they're doing, because everyone knows it's ridiculous."
Trump echoed those remarks in a harshly worded letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N. Y., on Thursday. Trump was responding to what he called Schumer's "Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way" concerning the federal coronavirus response.
"If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the 'invisible enemy,'" Trump wrote.
The president added: "I've known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became president."
Trump further asserted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would "likely" defeat Schumer in a primary if she chose to run.
Schumer's office later told Fox News that Schumer had worked things out with Trump, and that "after Sen. Schumer further made clear what he was requesting, the president said he was already in the process of sending a 'very nasty letter' to Sen. Schumer, but he would try to stop it from going out and would apologize to Sen. Schumer if he didn’t stop it in time."
On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., compared the current pandemic to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001 te... (Read more)
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