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Rugian rank	Thu Jun 25 00:15:25 President Trump blew up at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) during an intense meeting behind closed doors in the Capitol Wednesday after the Republican senator accused the president of not being forthright with the American people about the Iran war. The argument got so loud and intense between Trump and Cassidy that a senator next to the Louisiana senator had to pull him back down into his seat. The fireworks started when Trump expressed his frustration over the Senate approving a war powers resolution on Tuesday directing him to withdraw U.S. troops from hostilities against Iran, sending a powerful rebuke to the president. Trump asked “why would anybody vote for the war powers” resolution, according to Cassidy, who later recounted his tense debate with the president. “I stood and said, ‘Is that a rhetorical question or would you like to really know?’” Cassidy said. When Trump said he really wanted to know why Cassidy and three other Republicans — Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — voted with Democrats to attempt to curtail his authority as commander in chief, Cassidy stood up and ripped into Trump’s handling of the unpopular war. “I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved and I want to know what’s going on,’” Cassidy said, recounting the heated back-and-forth. Trump, infuriated over the Cassidy’s defiance in front of the entire Senate GOP conference, started yelling at the senator and Cassidy yelled back – matching the president’s tone and anger. “He did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice. I lost my temper, that’s not appropriate – it’s the Irish in me,” Cassidy said. “I matched his tone and his volume and it went back and forth.” Cassidy said Trump then got personal, insulting him over his primary election loss. “What does President Trump say? ‘Oh, you lost the election,’ that sort of thing, whatever comes to mind to demean another person,” Cassidy said. Cassidy said he sat down at the urging of the senator next to him in an attempt to “de-escalate.” But the Louisiana Republican said he’s not sorry about clashing with Trump because he argued “the American people need to know” and “the Senate needs to know” more about what’s happening with the conflict with Iran. “It does not appear … that the course of this is going the way we were told. So I make no apologies for standing up to the president, trying to demand that more information be shared with the Senate and more information be shared with the American people,” Cassidy said. “If someone tries to bully me into not asking that question, I’m not going to accept that either,” he said. Trump still appeared angry when he walked out of the room. “I don’t like a few people, but I think you know who they are,” Trump fumed to reporters as he left the meeting. Cassidy has become one of the more vocal critics of the administration since losing his primary last month to a Trump-backed challenger. He had been the target of Trump’s ire since 2021, when he was one of only a few Republican senators who voted to convict Trump over his role in the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. https://th...rump-cassidy-iran-gop-meeting/
Habebe rank	Thu Jun 25 01:37:48 I agree war should be limited. I disagree that the irish are allowed to hold public office.
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