Trump pivoted to talking about the Mueller report after a combative meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi initially intended to cover infrastructure
President Donald Trump has spent weeks insisting that Democrats and the country need to move on from the Mueller report and questions about Russian influence over his 2016 campaign.
It also arrived during a week — ostensibly dedicated to the bloodless topic of infrastructure, the subject of his aborted meeting with Democrats — in which the president has increasingly come under siege.Sign Up And earlier in the week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars, must turn over records and communications from its work for Trump, his businesses, and his foundation from 2011 to 2018, landing another blow to the president’s efforts to stonewall various congressional inquiries and subpoenas.
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