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Trump Loses it at Impromptu Speech About Mueller Report, ‘I Don’t Do Cover-Ups!’

Donald Trump canceled a scheduled meeting on infrastructure with Democrats on Wednesday, saying he was upset about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggesting he was engaged in a coverup during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk into look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don’t do cover-ups,” Trump said, speaking the Rose Garden about 25 minutes after the scheduled start of the meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

On April 30, the three leaders agreed to jointly push for a $2 trillion infrastructure package, with the details to be determined later.

Trump spoke at a lectern with a placard attached to it reading “ No Collusion No Obstruction” with statistics attacking special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

He also said he had been annoyed to learn that the scheduled meeting on infrastructure would take place after a House Democratic caucus meeting expected to focus on his possible impeachment.

He said he told the top Democrats to “get these phony investigations over with” before talks could resume.

“I’ve said from the beginning you can’t go down two tracks,” he said.

The president blasted the probe as a “total hoax” that “hurt us in so many ways.”

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