Fetterman to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Fetterman to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago 00:25
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
“That is the plan. Yes, we are going to have a conversation,” Fetterman told CBS News about the upcoming meeting.
The trip will mark the first known time a sitting Democratic U.S. senator is meeting with Trump at his Palm Beach residence since the election.
“I think that one, he’s the president, or he will be officially,” Fetterman said. “And I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it. And no one is my gatekeeper.”
Trump met with the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, last month to talk about the inauguration and his second term, her office said in a statement.
However, a transition official cautioned that plans could change and that the Fetterman meeting has not been finalized.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks