How Trump and Pelosi went from bad to worse
By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 10/20/19 06:05 AM EDT The explosive meeting this week between President Trump and Democratic leaders reveals just how far relations between the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have deteriorated amid Democrats’ escalating impeachment inquiry.
The quickly-viral photo showing Pelosi standing to confront Trump, her finger pointed sternly at the clearly agitated president, captured the height of Wednesday’s White House clash and foreshadowed the strife to follow: Pelosi leaving the room; Trump lashing out at “Nervous Nancy;†and both sides, backed by their allies, digging in over the days to follow.
But the tensions have been mounting for months, as the Democrats’ investigations into the White House have intensified.
Pelosi’s decision in late September to launch a formal impeachment inquiry only exacerbated the existing frictions, fracturing a relationship once braced by sporadic suggestions of mutual respect and raising new questions about the prospects for legislative deal-making in the weeks to come.
“It’s a shitshow,†one Republican lawmaker said of the Trump-Pelosi feud.
The strains between Trump and Pelosi were not always so severe.
Last November, after Democrats won the House and Pelosi was vying for the Speakership, Trump endorsed her bid, saying “she has earned this great honor.â€
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