House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking the "exactly right" approach toward the question of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, whose actions will continue to hurt him with fellow Republicans and has become an "erratic, helter-skelter, get-nothing-done president," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday.
Schumer, D-NY, also told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the president had already planned to walk out of a meeting he'd set up at the White House to discuss infrastructure because he had no plan for how to handle the issue.
“We want to do [infrastructure] and he’s incapable of it,” Schumer said. “What happened yesterday – in my judgment – is that they were so ill-prepared and afraid to say how they would pay for infrastructure that they looked for a way to back out.”
However, he pointed out that the nation's founding fathers wanted the process of impeachment to go slowly, and he believes people forget that in the "day-to-day frustration at the president's lack of respect for the rule of law."
Trump said, during a Rose Garden press conference shortly after leaving the infrastructure meeting, that he would not work with Democrats unless their investigations of him and his administration are lifted. Schumer accused him Thursday of not having any "real accomplishments."
Trump's signature tax bill is unpopular because it benefitted the "very wealthy," said Schumer, and Americans don't like that Trump has appointed a series of right-wing judges.
"If he were smart, he'd sit down with us," said Schumer. "We believe in infrastructure...we want to do this and he's incapable of it."
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