Trump Calls Speaker Pelosi ‘A Third-Rate Politician’

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation condemning the President’s policy to drawback troops in northern Syria. Opponents of the President’s policy believe it is an abandonment of a steadfast ally, the Kurdish people, who fought alongside U.S. troops in the region to obliterate the Islamic State caliphate and say the move emboldened Turkey to invade. Following the vote, Democratic lawmakers met with President Trump Wednesday afternoon. In a press conference that followed, the group revealed the President appeared to have no plan for the region. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned the President of an Islamic State resurgence in the region, citing former Defense Secretary James Mattis’s warning earlier this week.-- More...