Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said Wednesday “I hate to say” that President Trump isn’t honest with the American people.
He was asked on CNN if he believed it was a “misstep” for his Democratic colleagues to call Trump’s demands for border security a “manufactured crisis.”
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The senator pushed back, placing the focus on the president, who had delivered a prime-time speech on the issue last night.
“I think what they were saying is that the president — I hate to say this about the president of the United States, but he lies and he is fast with the — with half-truths at the end of the day,” he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gave an on-air rebuttal after Trump and dismissed his call for border wall funding as being a “manufactured crisis” even as they acknowledged a humanitarian problem.
