A Democratic senator said Wednesday that White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn told President Trump he had a bad cell connection as an excuse to stop talking to Trump.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, shared details of the meeting he attended with a group of moderate Democrats who discussed tax reform with Cohn and White House legislative affairs director Marc Short, while Trump joined by phone.
“I said to Gary, it was a room where we’re all sitting around this big table, and I said, ‘Gary, why don’t you do this, just take the phone from, you know, your cellphone back and just say, Mr. President, you’re brilliant. But we’re losing contact, and I think we’re going to lose you now, so good-bye.’ And that’s what he did and he hung up,” Carper told CNN.
Carper said the group of Democratic senators were looking to find common ground with the administration on taxes.
[contentcards url=”http://thehill.com/homenews/house/361553-dem-senator-gary-cohn-faked-a-bad-connection-to-get-off-phone-call-with-trump” target=”_blank”]Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says White House economic adviser Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get President Trump off the phone so they could have a conversation on tax reform without him https://t.co/qcUnSEsysl
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