Democratic oversight is "bullshit": Trump out of scenario at CPAC | American News

Donald Trump, at war, was trying to recover after a torrid week at home and abroad with a fiery speech using two of his favorite tactics: dropping a scenario and insulting his opponents.

Caught mad at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual grassroots gathering of conservatives in the United States, the president said, "You know I'm totally out of the blue, and it's like that I was elected. And if we do not discard the scenario, our country has big problems because we have to recover it. "

Trump then targeted a Democratic proposal to fight climate change by adopting a radical "New Deal Green", attacked by Republicans as costly and constraining to reduce cars and planes. He said sarcastically, "I think the new green deal, or whatever they call it. The Green New Deal, right? I encourage him. I think it's really something they should promote. "

Laughing, Trump continued, mockingly, "No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, it's the end of your electric. "Let's hurry up." Honey, darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch TV, darling. "

The crowd burst with cheers and applause.

Trump also insisted that he was joking when, at a press conference in July 2016, he had encouraged Russia to track down the 30,000 missing emails from rival Hillary Clinton, and had criticized the "sick" press to use it to incriminate it. The audience chanted: "Lock her up! "Lock it up!", A common anti-Clinton chorus during the campaign.

The president described the Justice Ministry's investigation of Russia as a "false witch hunt" and claimed that, as no understanding has yet been uncovered, Democrats in the United States House now want to look into his personal finances. He dismissed surveillance efforts with an impresidential word: "bullshit".

Trump continued his fight against James Comey, whom he fired as the FBI's director, and Jeff Sessions, his former Attorney General, even mocking the latter's southern accent.

An unconditional hero worship coup was exactly what the doctor had prescribed. It has become a common place in Washington to think about what is called "Trump's worst week", but the last seven days are clearly a pretender. On the domestic front, his former attorney and repairman Michael Cohen has presented overwhelming testimony. Internationally, a very busy summit with North Korea has collapsed into failure and controversy.

Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for Studies on Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said, "In many ways, Trump has been a magician in creating a narrative that he would defend the United States without being indebted to the marsh. This week, tell the story of Trump.

"The failure of the talks in North Korea has denied his story that he would have had a historic feat. It became clear that there had been no breakthrough and Trump conceded the point and left. With us, the idea that Trump is a beacon of truth has been seriously damaged by the words of Michael Cohen and the people he identified who will be brought to testify. "

Cohen, who once said he'd "take a bullet" for Trump, called his former boss a cheater, scamper and racist, and accused him of breaking the law. He alleged that Trump had lied about trade relations in Russia in the 2016 election and ordered him to conceal his extramarital affairs. And he compared Trump to a "gangster" who demanded a blind loyalty from the staff and expected them to lie and threaten opponents on his behalf.

On Friday, the president let a series of tweets attack his former lawyer, who pleaded guilty last year for lying to Congress and soon went to jail for a three-year sentence. imprisonment.

But Cohen opened the doors of Congress to question Trump's new allies and associates, including his son Don Jr and his daughter Ivanka. House investigators will hear Felix Sater, a Russian-born leader who worked with Cohen on an ultimately unsuccessful deal for the construction of a Trump tower in Moscow, during a public hearing on March 14.

Jacobs added, "I do not think I've seen anything so devastating for a president since Richard Nixon. In simple terms, this only worsens for Trump in the surveys. It will take months of fiery testimonials for him, for his election and for his business. "

On domestic pressure, the New York Times reported that Trump had ordered his former chief of staff to grant Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior advisor, a high-level security clearance against intelligence officials' advice. . The Democrats have asked the White House to hand over the relevant documents.

Trump's second meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ended abruptly at 1,300 kilometers away, while disagreement over the extent of sanctions relief would be granted to Pyongyang in exchange for abandoning its nuclear weapons. The White House had planned a signing ceremony of an agreement on Trump's public program in Hanoi, with the sole purpose of removing it.

"Sometimes you have to walk," said the self-publisher, but this stalemate raised new questions about Trump's approach to improvising diplomacy and doubts about the possibility that North Korea disarms completely.

The cloud had a glimmer of hope – "no agreement is better than a bad deal" was a widely expressed verdict – but the night darkened quickly when Trump praised Kim's leadership and told him that he did not know how Otto Warmbier, an American student who died after 17 months in a North Korean prison, had been treated.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, called the comments "hateful". On Friday, Warmbier's parents blamed Kim's "evil dieting" for his death and said, "No sumptuous eulogy excuse can change that."

Trump claimed on Twitter that he had been "misinterpreted," but critics pointed out that he was previously willing to similarly accept the word of autocrats in Russia and Saudi Arabia .

It was, in every way, another murderous week. But CPAC participants remained extremely loyal and Trump's associates sought to minimize their long-term importance.

Chris Ruddy, chief executive of conservative Newsmax Media, told Reuters: "There were no surprises this week. We knew that North Korea was difficult to solve and that Michael Cohen was going to say a lot. In the end, I do not think it changes the political climate of President Trump. "