Trump’s Closed Door Meeting With GOP Senator Gets Heated
It does not sound as if tempers are cooling on Capitol Hill. Several outlets reported that President Donald Trump had a tense and heated exchange with outgoing Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy during a closed-door GOP luncheon, with one senator describing Trump as “mad as a murder hornet” over a recent War Powers vote. According […] The post Trump’s Closed Door Meeting With GOP Senator Gets Heated appeared first on Red Right Patriot.
It does not sound as if tempers are cooling on Capitol Hill.
Several outlets reported that President Donald Trump had a tense and heated exchange with outgoing Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy during a closed-door GOP luncheon, with one senator describing Trump as “mad as a murder hornet” over a recent War Powers vote.
According to the New York Post, Trump and Cassidy were both attending the Republican lunch when the conversation turned sharp. The dispute reportedly centered on Cassidy’s decision to join three other Republicans in backing a measure aimed at limiting Trump’s wartime authority.
Trump was clearly unhappy with Cassidy. But there likely was not much goodwill flowing in the other direction, either.
Cassidy recently lost his primary race to Rep. Julia Letlow, who had Trump’s backing, according to Politico. That political backdrop only added to the tension surrounding the exchange.
Whatever the source of the bad blood, senators who were in or near the room suggested the confrontation was loud and direct.
Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who worked as an OB/GYN before entering politics, compared the scene to a tense hospital board meeting.
“Very much like a hospital board meeting when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other, but at the end of the day, we’ll figure out a way to get along,” Marshall said. “Voices were raised… I think the vote yesterday on the War Powers Act, the president’s very disappointed.”
According to Semafor congressional bureau chief Burgess Everett, Marshall also offered a more plainspoken explanation.
“Sometimes two guys just have to get it off their chest,” he said.
Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy put it in even more colorful terms.
“The president was mad as a murder hornet about the War Powers vote,” Kennedy said.
Cassidy later gave his own account of what happened, according to The Hill. He said the confrontation began when Trump asked the room why anyone would vote for the War Powers resolution.