Politics

Trump silent on son’s Russia meeting while blasting Dems

President Trump launched a Twitter attack against Senate Democrats Tuesday morning for failing to confirm his nominees — but stayed silent on the mounting controversy over a meeting between his son and a Russian lawyer.

“The Senate Democrats have only confirmed 48 of 197 Presidential Nominees. They can’t win so all they do is slow things down & obstruct!” he wrote, after retweeting a “Fox & Friends” clip on the same topic.

White House legislative affairs director Marc Short made similar statements during Monday’s press briefing — prompting a response from Sen. Chuck Schumer that the administration “has only itself to blame” for being slow.

“Thus far, the nomination process has been defined by the failure of the Trump administration to submit names for hundreds of vacant jobs, incomplete and delayed ethics and nominations paperwork from the nominees themselves, and repeated withdrawals of nominees for key positions,” the Senate minority leader said in a statement.

Trump on Tuesday also retweeted a “Fox & Friends” interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, in which the Texas senator argued that Congress must repeal Obamacare before its summer break next month — echoing Trump’s Monday tweetstorm.

The tweets follow an explosive report from the New York Times Monday night claiming Donald Trump Jr. was told before a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton he expected to receive from her was part of Moscow’s effort to aid his dad’s election campaign.