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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 08:30 AM Sep 2017

GOP senator expected to meet Trump to discuss race issues

By Ashley Parker September 10 at 12:32 PM

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who said President Trump’s “moral authority” was “compromised” by his response to the white-supremacist-fueled violence in Charlottesville last month, is set to meet with the president Wednesday to discuss issues of race and race relations, said two people familiar with the meeting.

Scott, who has been sharply critical of Trump and his rhetoric on issues of race, had expressed interest in meeting with the president before the violence, the people said, but that get-together took on newfound urgency after Charlottesville.

For Trump, the meeting with serve largely as a “listening session,” one of the people added. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive meeting.

Trump plunged his young administration further into crisis with his response to the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, which left one counterprotester dead and several injured. At the time, Trump refused to immediately condemn the violence and said that “both sides” were to blame.

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GOP senator expected to meet Trump to discuss race issues (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Good luck with that Senator Scott SharonClark Sep 2017 #1
HA HA HA! greeny2323 Sep 2017 #2
BFD atreides1 Sep 2017 #3
LOL! Listening sessions with Trump only go one way. tanyev Sep 2017 #4
Scott and Nikki Haley held a "We'reWithRubio" press conference oasis Sep 2017 #5

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. Good luck with that Senator Scott
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 08:34 AM
Sep 2017

I can guess the over the top imaginations Trump will say after that meeting.

 

greeny2323

(590 posts)
2. HA HA HA!
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 08:53 AM
Sep 2017

When is Trump ever going to have a "listening session"?

What reporter is gullible enough to print that?

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
3. BFD
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 09:00 AM
Sep 2017

So, Trump wants to talk to the token from SC...big whoop! Why not include the Congressional Black Caucus as well?

tanyev

(42,610 posts)
4. LOL! Listening sessions with Trump only go one way.
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 09:00 AM
Sep 2017

And Senator Scott is not going to be the one talking.

oasis

(49,407 posts)
5. Scott and Nikki Haley held a "We'reWithRubio" press conference
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 09:03 AM
Sep 2017

during the Republican primary. Trump is not letting that slide.

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