A GOP senator is suggesting that President Donald Trump lied when he said during a signing ceremony for a marijuana rescheduling executive order this week that he hadn’t received any calls in opposition to the reform.
During Thursday’s event, Trump noted strong public support for marijuana reform and said numerous people called him to voice support for cannabis rescheduling.
“I don’t think I received any calls on the other side of it,” he said.
That comment didn’t sit right with Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), who says he in fact called the president to express his opposition to rescheduling marijuana just days ago.
“I called him personally Friday last week and let him know,” the senator told Punchbowl News.
Budd said he is also aware that other lawmakers had called Trump to urge him not to enact the federal reclassification of marijuana.
“I was aware of people calling him then—against rescheduling,” he said. “So I knew that my colleagues had been calling him.”
“I called him personally Friday last week and let him know. He said that others had been calling him on the issue,” Budd said in an interview. “I was aware of people calling him then —
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