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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Sep 2018

Trump and Rosenstein postpone meeting until next week to avoid intefering with Kavanaugh hearing...

Source: The Washington Post



Trump and Rosenstein postpone meeting until next week to avoid intefering with Kavanaugh hearing, White House says

By Washington Post Staff
September 27 at 12:53 PM

The meeting between President Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein was scheduled for the same day as a Senate committee hearing on Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.

“They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/09/27/trump-and-rosenstein-postpone-meeting-until-next-week-to-avoid-intefering-with-kavanaugh-hearing-white-house-says/

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Trump and Rosenstein postpone meeting until next week to avoid intefering with Kavanaugh hearing... (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2018 #1
How would this help? Ptah Sep 2018 #2
He's gone! Spam and scam. NurseJackie Sep 2018 #6
Well done MIRT! Ptah Sep 2018 #7
We've got a good team this quarter. NurseJackie Sep 2018 #8
BS. Trump didn't want to look like a weakling KPN Sep 2018 #3
Trump has tipped his hand though... meadowlander Sep 2018 #4
Bingo. lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #9
I hope Mueller drops a load on Trump tomorrow. - n/t Jim__ Sep 2018 #5
Me too! lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #10
Donald couldn't break away from the TV. LuckyLib Sep 2018 #11

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

KPN

(15,646 posts)
3. BS. Trump didn't want to look like a weakling
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 01:55 PM
Sep 2018

loser twice in one day. He’s already lost a lot of hide this week ... and he was already thin skinned.

meadowlander

(4,395 posts)
4. Trump has tipped his hand though...
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 02:31 PM
Sep 2018

he's going to spark his constitutional crisis as soon as he has 5 republicans on the Supreme Court.

If he didn't want anything to interfere with the hearing, he wouldn't have scheduled it for the same day in the first place.

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