“We need someone unpolitical to produce the materials more quickly,” Schumer says.
President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer clashed all day Thursday in media appearances, tweets and dueling letters over the federal government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
The tension reached a climax when Trump sent a letter to the New York Democrat, defending his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But the letter also got personal, as the president accused the Democratic leader of getting caught up in the “impeachment hoax” and being “missing in action, except when it comes to the ‘press.”
On MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Schumer said Thursday evening that he was “appalled” at the president’s letter and told Trump to “stop the pettiness — people are dying.” Continue reading.