.MaddowBlog: It's 'been a little while' since Speaker Pelosi heard from Pres. Trump
, which noted that the president"can't stand the idea of negotiating one-on-one with his chief counterpart."
Two senior Trump administration officials described a president who, out of an intense bitterness toward the House Speaker, has shuddered at the prospect of being in the same room with her during the ongoing public-health crisis and economic reverberations. "At this time, the president does not see it as productive to [personally] negotiate directly with Nancy Pelosi," said one of the senior administration officials.
Around the same time, CNBC's Eamon Javers told MSNBC that Trump won't get in a room with Pelosi because he's stillThere appear to be some workarounds. The Speaker has, for example, negotiated directly with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin without incident. But what does it say about the president's capacity for leadership that he can't bring himself to communicate with Pelosi, even in the midst of a crisis?
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