Schumer: Being New Is Not An Excuse, Trump Needs to ‘Step up to the Plate’

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump being new to Washington D.C. was not an excuse for his behavior adding he needs “to step up to the plate.”

Schumer said, “Well, you know, Comey said that he cleared the room, the president did before he talked to him, that doesn’t indicate a casualness, but there is a deeper point here. The president is the most powerful man in the world, his words really, really matter. Whether it comes to foreign policy, with NATO or with Australia, or Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whether it comes to domestic policy, whether it comes to this investigation. The fact that he is new, the fact that he may not say things so seriously, that is not an excuse. He is the president of the United States, and he has got to step up to the plate.”

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