U.S. President Donald Trump hit back on Democrats on Friday,
ordering “an immediate investigation” into Senate Minority Leader Charles
Schumer’s own ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He also called for similar investigation against the House
of Representatives Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi.
Trump tweeted a photo on Friday of Schumer’s meeting with
Putin in New York in 2003 and the picture showed them drinking coffee and
eating donuts.
The president, in calling for a probe into Schumer’s “ties
to Russia and Putin” also called the New York Senator “A total hypocrite!”
“We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer
and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!” Trump tweeted.
Schumer responded on Twitter later writing that he would
“happily talk” under oath about his meeting with Putin, which took place “in
full view of press and public”.
The president then posted a second tweet demanding “a second
investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and “lying
about it”.
Trump, whose administration has been under siege for
contacts with Russian officials, posted a 2010 photo of her with Russian
officials at a meeting.
“I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of
Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it,” Trump said on his
Twitter handle.
Pelosi said on Friday that she had never met the Russian
ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak but the photo posted showed her sitting
at a table with a number of Russian officials, including the envoy and
then-president Dimitri Medvedev.
Pelosi later clarified that she never had a private meeting
with the ambassador.
Trump had, in a statement on Thursday, said that the scandal
plaguing his Attorney-General over contacts with Kislyak “is a witch-hunt” and
blamed Democrats for blowing up the controversy for political reasons.
“Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything
wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly
not intentional.
“This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats
losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win.
“The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the
election and now, they have lost their grip on reality.
“The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified
and other information. It is a total witch hunt!” Trump said in the statement.
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