President Trump
Donald John Trump Trump campaign cancels purchase of ads to review messaging strategy: Nunes report declines to respond if it received information from Ukraine lawmaker meant to harm Biden poll: plurality of ‘Generation Z’ voters says who see more Trump political announcements than Biden MORE he bragged about the number of retweets he received in a post saying Senator James Inhofe (Republican of Okla.), The president of the Senate Armed Services Committee assured him that the military bases named in honor of the Confederates will not be changed.
“I had about 95,000 positive retweets about it. That’s a lot, “Trump told Inhofe in a phone call that the senator put on the speakerphone while dining at a restaurant in Washington DC on Wednesday night, according to audio leaked to The New York Times.
Inhofe, 85, reportedly made the call to the speaker so that he could hear better, making the conversation audible to people sitting in Alberto Trattoria, a small Capitol Hill restaurant frequented by Republican lawmakers.
“Are we going to keep the name Robert E. Lee?” Trump said.
Inhofe responded to Trump’s question by saying: “Just trust me, I will make it happen.”
The two reportedly talked about someone “Give up” and be placed in another position. They also discussed personal matters related to someone’s “divorces” that could be the subject of media attention.
The call came the day before Anthony Tata, the retired Army Brigadier General whose nomination for a top political position in the Pentagon has become controversial, was supposed to testify before the committee.
Your audience it was cancelled less than an hour before it started Thursday because “many” Democrats and Republicans “did not know enough about Anthony Tata consider it for a very significant position right now. “
Inhofe’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
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