FROM FOX NEWS: President Donald Trump argued Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went “too far” as some Democrats demand their party leader be replaced during a wide-ranging interview on “The Ingraham Angle” Monday.
“I think he made a mistake in going too far,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “He thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him.”
Eight senators broke rank with the Democratic Party on Sunday, voting for the House-passed spending plan to reopen the government that their Democratic colleagues blocked 14 times. The Senate voted 60-40 Monday to end the government shutdown, with the final vote going to the House later this week.
As Democrats call for Schumer to be replaced, Trump expressed compassion for him.
“I feel badly ‘cause I know Chuck Schumer,” he said. “I’ve known him since he was a person who loved Israel, and now he’s a Palestinian. He’s become a Palestinian… I’ve never seen a politician change so much.”
But Trump explained that what the Democrats were aiming for in extending the healthcare subsidies was not on the table.
“What they really wanted was $1.5 trillion for people that came in illegally, people that come in through and out of prisons,” Trump said. “We’re trying to get them out, because we don’t want 11,000 murderers in our country. You don’t want it. Nobody wants it.
“And we have drug dealers, and we have everything else, and they wanted to make sure they got good healthcare.”
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