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groundloop

(11,524 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:35 AM Aug 2019

Trump says Mitch McConnell is "totally on board" with background checks

Source: CBS News

President Trump says he has spoken with lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about gun background check legislation, and McConnell is "totally onboard." He also said he had a "great talk" with Democratic congressional leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But the president said he doesn't think Congress needs to be called back into session, as a package will be ready by the time they're slated to return.

Mr. Trump spoke with reporters as he departed the White House for fundraising events in New York before heading for a working vacation from his New Jersey club. The president has been pushing for stronger background checks after last weekend's back-to-back mass shootings. He has been Trump speaks with NRA's Wayne LaPierre as he weighs possible gun reforms to get his input, as well as a number of senators.

The president also said he does not anticipate a disagreement on background checks with the NRA. And he has also been having conversations with senators he characterized as hardliners on the Second Amendment. No one, he said, wants guns in the hands of the wrong people. Mr. Trump believes there is "tremendous" support for common-sense background checks.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-leaves-for-new-york-and-new-jersey-today-2019-08-09-live-updates/



Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see something that's not a watered down meaningless piece of crap legislation being signed into law.
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Trump says Mitch McConnell is "totally on board" with background checks (Original Post) groundloop Aug 2019 OP
That is hysterical. onecaliberal Aug 2019 #1
"does not anticipate a disagreement ... with the NRA" crazytown Aug 2019 #2
If Trump says mental illness is responsible for mass shootings.... CuriousAsterisk Aug 2019 #3
Watch what they do, not what they say !!! TryLogic Aug 2019 #4
There's Nothing To Watch. jayfish Aug 2019 #5
Are Trump's Lips Moving? dlk Aug 2019 #6
If Trump says it IronLionZion Aug 2019 #7
w/tax cuts for the rich muffinsforbreakfast Aug 2019 #8
 

CuriousAsterisk

(36 posts)
3. If Trump says mental illness is responsible for mass shootings....
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:58 AM
Aug 2019

Why did he reverse Obama's mental illness background check rule as one of his first tasks in office?

Trump signs bill reversing Obama rule to ban gun purchases by mentally ill

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/28/trump-sign-bill-blocking-obama-gun-rule/98484106/?fbclid=IwAR0CXkogrp1C52T4NkMq0jjUYTmdJNqkqTBKakXcWNNLVmOSF3-ja1XO33w


jayfish

(10,039 posts)
5. There's Nothing To Watch.
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:40 PM
Aug 2019

I'm confident that everything he said was 100% fabricated.

ON EDIT: Actually, "fabricated" indicates that he actually thought about this. It was 100% delusion.

8. w/tax cuts for the rich
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 02:12 PM
Aug 2019

watered down with no chance of getting through the Republican court system with more tax cuts for the rich, and a sweetheart deal for Moscow Mitch that will be hailed as "doing what's right for the American people."

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