Dem Senator: Gary Cohn Faked a Bad Connection to Get Off the Phone During Trump Call

Dem Senator: Gary Cohn Faked a Bad Connection to Get Off The Phone During Trump Call (Mediaite)

A U.S. senator claimed on TV today that Gary Cohn faked a bad connection on a conference call with the President of the United States to get him off the phone.

On CNN this morning, anchor Poppy Harlow asked Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), “You were part of this call with the president while he was in Asia on taxes. And at one point, it’s reported that you looked over to his chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, and said to him, ‘We’re not going to have a real conversation here. Can you just tell the president he’s brilliant and say we’re losing the connection and hang up.’ Seriously?”

Carper responded, “Seriously, and he did.”