Chuck Schumer: Trump 'Was Insulting' To Nancy Pelosi In Turkey Discussions

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump berated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a meeting on the presidents handling of the Turkey crisis.

Schumer told reporters that Trump was insulting to the speaker at the meeting and that he called Pelosi a third-rate politician. The senator also said the meeting was more of a diatribe than a dialogue.

Schumer, Pelosi and Houer speaking to reporters after meeting with Trump on Turkey.

Schumer says it was more of a diatribe than a dialogue and than Trump didnt have a plan for containing ISIS. pic.twitter.com/pTydvIGWqs

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Schumer, Pelosi and Houer speaking to reporters after meeting with Trump on Turkey.

Schumer says it was more of a diatribe than a dialogue and than Trump didnt have a plan for containing ISIS. pic.twitter.com/pTydvIGWqs
Brett Samuels (@Brett_Samuels27) October 16, 2019

At the same press conference outside the White House, Pelosi said Trump had a meltdown during their meeting. In response to being called a third-rate politician, Pelosi said she told Trump: I wish you were a politician, Mr. President, so then youd know the art of the possible.

I asked the president what his plan was to contain ISIS, Schumer said, referencing the hundreds of ISIS supporters that escaped detention in northern Syria. He didnt really have one.

The meeting came after what Pelosi said was a very difficult time for Trump, referencing the Houses nonbinding resolution that opposes the presidents withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria.

Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly condemned Trumps decision to effectively greenlight Turkeys invasion of the region, a move that put Americas Kurdish allies in danger and would likely lead to a resurgence of ISIS.

That vote probably got to the president, because he was shaken up by it. And thats why we couldnt continue in the meeting because he was just not relating to the reality of it, Pelosi said. Again, we are proud of our men and women in uniform. Those who have been in Syria have conducted themselves in a way that makes us all very proud, and I conveyed that to the chairmen of the joint chiefs.

Trump signed an executive order on Monday to impose sanctions and visa bans on top Turkish government leaders as a way to punish them for the countrys forces invading Syria, and said that a small number of US troops would remain in Syria.

The presidents foreign policy moves have brought bipartisan backlash from lawmakers, world leaders and human rights groups. The Senate is introducing its own sanctions bill against Turkey, saying that Trumps orders arent enough.

I told the president that being from New York, as he was, were particularly aware of the problems that terrorism that an organisation like ISIS can create, Schumer said. And the fact that someone no less than General [Jim] Mattis has said that ISIS has been enhanced, that the danger of ISIS is so much greater, worries all of us.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.