"Bloomberg" : Senators Say Gorsuch Dismayed by Trump as President Attacks

"Americans dislike bullies and President Trump is acting like a bully" against the judiciary, Blumenthal told MSNBC after Trump said in a Twitter post that the Connecticut Democrat misrepresented what Gorsuch said during their meeting. "And I believe Judge Gorsuch, more than just saying it behind closed doors, needs to publicly condemn" Trump's comments. Blumenthal said on MSNBC Gorsuch told him that "you should feel free to mention" publicly Gorsuch's critiques of Trump's attacks on the independent courts. Trump urged the Senate to confirm Gorsuch at a White House listening session Thursday attended by about 10 Republican and Democratic senators. "I absolutely accurately stated what Judge Gorsuch said to me, as confirmed by his own spokesman, colleagues who heard the same thing in their private meetings," Blumenthal told CNN.


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Trump Goes After Richard Blumenthal About Meeting With Neil Gorsuch

Irritated by reports that Neil Gorsuch , his Supreme Court nominee, said his harsh critique of the federal judiciary was "disheartening" and "demoralizing," President Donald Trump counterattacked Thursday on Twitter. Resurrecting a years-old controversy about the senator's military service, Trump suggested Blumenthal was wrong when he told reporters that, during a one-on-one meeting with Gorsuch Wednesday, the judge told him Trump's attacks are harmful"Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie), now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?" "Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril," Trump tweeted Saturday, after a federal judge temporarily halted his immigration order on Feb. 4. [NEWS OF THE DAY: Trump Administration More Trusted Than The Media, Poll Finds]During their private meeting, Wednesday, Gorsuch "said very specifically that they were demoralizing and disheartening and he characterized them very specifically that way," Blumenthal told CNN. Instead of going after the judge for his message, however, the president went after Gorsuch's messenger: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Trump tweets on Sen. Richard Blumenthal after Gorsuch meeting

President Trump attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal in a tweet early Thursday, following the Connecticut Democrat's remarks about his meeting with Judge Neil Gorsuch, Mr. Trump's pick to be a Supreme Court justice. Sen.Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him? The Nebraska Republican said that in his own talk with the conservative judge, Gorsuch had said that any attack on any "brothers or sisters of the robe" is an attack on all judges. The president accused Blumenthal of "misrepresenting" Gorsuch's comments, after the senator reported that the conservative judge had expressed disappointment over Mr. Trump's latest comments about the court system. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, also told reporters that Gorsuch seemed to believe it was "inappropriate" to question the political motives of the courts.


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