Trump kicks off House GOP retreat with speech bashing Democrats, media

BALTIMORE — President Trump kicked off a policy retreat for House Republicans with an address that bashed his potential Democratic rivals, Hillary Clinton and the media, receiving a full embrace from GOP lawmakers converging on a city the president disparaged as a “rodent infested mess.”

“They’re colluding and they’re obstructing,” Trump said of Democrats and the media, a not-so-veiled reference to the potential impeachment charges against him.

He started his speech an hour later than planned, but in so doing managed to take the stage in Charm City at the exact minute that the 2020 Democratic presidential debate got underway.

View the complete September 12 article by Rachael Bade and Paul Kane on The Washington Post website here.