The three-minute meeting prompted Mr. Trump’s latest noninfrastructure speech on Wednesday, in which he accused Ms. Pelosi of saying he was engaged in waylaying House investigations. “What happened in the White House would make your jaw drop,” Mr. Schumer said — not that what happened in the Rose Garden minutes later was exactly sedate. In 2017, as the House minority leader, she called the original Infrastructure Week “little more than a Trojan horse.” But for this season’s short-lived reprisal, she returned as speaker of the House. After Wednesday’s abortive meeting, she responded by saying she would pray for the president. In a meeting before Mr. Comey’s visit to Capitol Hill, White House aides said they would need something else to change the subject.

Source: New York Times May 22, 2019 23:59 UTC