GOP senators give Trump standing ovation
By Alexander Bolton - 03/26/19 03:29 PM EDT
President Trump received a prolonged standing ovation Tuesday when he walked into a lunch meeting of the Senate Republican conference to take a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of collusion in the 2016 election.
Trump seemed almost giddy as he spoke to Republican senators in the Mansfield Room just off the Senate floor, according to GOP lawmakers who said Trump claimed the Mueller report gave him a “clean bill of health†after two years of speculation that it could lead to impeachment.
The president thanked Senate Republicans for sticking by his side for almost “two years†of the special counsel and Democrats “dragging our party and the presidency through the mud on a hoax,†according to Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).
“He appreciated that we stood with him and he said it can never happen again,†Cramer added. “The words he used is ‘clean bill of health,’ referencing Mueller.â€
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