White House Staff Meadows Mark Meadows appears on ABC’s “This Week.”
After recording footage in which President Donald Trump described his sister’s brother as having “no principles”, claiming that “he did not read” and had someone take his college entrance exams on his behalf, Chief Staff Staff Meadows stated Sunday ‘ the president’s defense, characterized the claims as an inaccurate portrayal of the man where he works.
“You know, just another day and another attack,” Meadows said ABC’s Sunday “This Week”. “The president I have the privilege of serving is not the one described on a 15-hour … secret tape.”
In audio recorded by Trump’s niece, Mary and quoted in The Washington Post, Maryanne Trump describes Barry, a retired U.S. Circuit Court judge, as her brother as false and “cruel” and describes the accusation that a man named Joe Shapiro took the SATs for him.
“The president has denied this, but why would his sister lie about it in what she thought was a private conversation? Does the president in any case have evidence to make his denial?” ABC News editor-in-chief George Stephanopoulos asked Meadows.
Meadows pointed to the pushback of the widow of a friend of Trump’s name Joe Shapiro, but Mary Trump claims the test was taken by another man of the same name. The chief of staff went on to refute claims about Trump’s reading habits.
“You can probably see him when he goes to Marine One, there’s a cardboard box that is brought on Marine One. What’s in there are clippings and clippings, every day,” Meadows said. “He probably reads more than anyone I know, which is why I need to read more because he gave me a to-do list every morning. He gave me a to-do list.”
“Listen, this is politics as usual by a niece who was written out of a will who apparently just has an ax to grind because she wants Joe Biden to become president,” he continued, referring to a family battle about Trump’s father Fred’s estate.
In the interview, Stephanopoulos challenged Extra Meadows on Trump’s tweet on Saturday, claiming that “The deep state, or whatever, at the FDA makes it very difficult for drug companies to get people to test the vaccines and therapeutics,” and claimed that the process was postponed until after the election. ”
“What evidence does the president have that the FDA is manipulating this process, this approval process, for political reasons?” Frege Stephanopoulos.
“This president is about cutting office paper. That’s what the tweet was about,” the chief of staff said after first denying that anything had been “manipulated.” “He had to make sure they felt the heat. If they do not see the light, they have to feel the heat, because the American people are suffering, this president knows it, and he will put it aside where– FDA or NIH or anyone else to make sure we deliver on behalf of the American people. ”
Asked why Trump did not fire the FDA commissioner when he truly believes political preferences interfere, Meadows acknowledged that the administration “looked at a number of people who are not as zealous as they should be” and that it is a greater conveyable sense of “urgency.”
On Saturday, Meadows visited the Capitol when it returned home from the August recession to pass a $ 25 billion bill to fund the U.S. Postal Service. The Chief of Staff tried to meet with Second Chamber member Nancy Pelosi, but she was not available. Meadows criticized Pelosi for holding a vote on the Postal Service, but was unwilling to isolate other priorities from retaining billonavirus provision for separate votes.
He continued the argument on ‘This Week’ on Sunday, describing the House’s legislation as an unserious bill that “does nothing to maintain the Postal System in the long run.” Meadows said he planned to call Pelosi later in the day and try to negotiate a deal that would pack several relief items together.
“If we agree on five or six things, then let’s go ahead and pass these on,” he said. “Why did you not do it yesterday? But let’s go ahead and pass it on. I spoke to the President early in the morning, he is ready to sign it, including reform of postal services.”
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