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Top Democrat shoots down claim he said Trump would be 'great president'
Source: The Guardian
Top Democrat shoots down claim he said Trump would be 'great president'
Representative Elijah Cummings clarifies that he said Trump would
be great if he were able to move away from the ‘divisive and harmful
path he is currently on’
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Thursday 6 April 2017 16.45 BST
A top Democrat has strongly disputed Donald Trump’s claim that he told the president: “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country” in an Oval Office meeting.
In a statement to the Guardian, Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House government reform and oversight committee, made clear that what he actually told Trump was different. “During my meeting with the president and on several occasions since then, I have said repeatedly that he could be a great president if – if – he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on,” said Cummings.
In addition, a Cummings aide told the Guardian that the Maryland Democrat also suggested that the president “should start leading instead of tweeting” in their March meeting in the Oval Office.
Trump’s statement about Cummings came in the course of a long, discursive interview with the New York Times in the Oval Office. The president was attempting to claim Democrats were acting hypocritically by praising him in private and then bashing him on television. “I watched him on television yesterday and I said, ‘Was that the same man?’” Trump said of Cummings.
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Representative Elijah Cummings clarifies that he said Trump would
be great if he were able to move away from the ‘divisive and harmful
path he is currently on’
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Thursday 6 April 2017 16.45 BST
A top Democrat has strongly disputed Donald Trump’s claim that he told the president: “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country” in an Oval Office meeting.
In a statement to the Guardian, Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House government reform and oversight committee, made clear that what he actually told Trump was different. “During my meeting with the president and on several occasions since then, I have said repeatedly that he could be a great president if – if – he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on,” said Cummings.
In addition, a Cummings aide told the Guardian that the Maryland Democrat also suggested that the president “should start leading instead of tweeting” in their March meeting in the Oval Office.
Trump’s statement about Cummings came in the course of a long, discursive interview with the New York Times in the Oval Office. The president was attempting to claim Democrats were acting hypocritically by praising him in private and then bashing him on television. “I watched him on television yesterday and I said, ‘Was that the same man?’” Trump said of Cummings.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/06/elijah-cummings-democrat-trump-great-president
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On a trailer hitch! trump thinks/imagines Rep Cummings would say something like that!!!!!!!
