Chuck Schumer: Difference between Trump, Bush after New York tragedies ‘could not be starker’

Published November 1, 2017 3:59pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that former President George W. Bush was a much better national leader than President Trump in the face of tragedy in New York, and asked Trump on the Senate floor, “Where is your leadership?”

“I’ve seen the tweet from President Trump. After Sept. 11, the first thing that President Bush did was invite Sen. Clinton and me to the White House, where he pledged to do what was ever in his power to help our city,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “President Bush, in a moment of tragedy, understood the meaning of his high office, and sought to bring our country together.”

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