Tom Carper: Gary Cohn Faked Bad Call To Get Trump Off the Phone

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CARPER: "Seriously, and he did. And we’ve been having about a half an hour conversation with Gary, with mark short and with sharira knight, they were having a conversation, more moderate Democrats, and trying to see if there’s some kind of middle ground on tax reform. About 30 minutes into the call, Gary gets up and takes a call on his cell phone, comes back into the room, and says, we have somebody calling in from Asia, which was the president, which was nice. Nice of him to do that. 15 minutes later, the president is still talking. And 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 cell phone 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. And we went back to having the kind of conversation where we needed to, where they ask a question, looking for consensus and common ground and I think we identified."