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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Trump’s inner circle to stage an intervention with him after he abruptly ended an Oval Office meeting with Democratic leaders on Wednesday to protest their continuing investigations of him.

“I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country,” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference Thursday.

The top congressional Democrat rehashed a dramatic Wednesday in Washington, saying that the president had a “temper tantrum” and had a “bag of tricks” at the ready for when he learned that Democrats hadn’t come out of their 9 a.m. Wednesday caucus meeting primed for opening an impeachment inquiry. She said Trump is trying to goad Democrats into pursuing impeachment, believing it would trigger a backlash against the opposition party and benefit him politically.

But Trump said he decided to walk out of the meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after just three minutes because he earlier heard Pelosi tell reporters that the president was engaged in a “cover-up” by stonewalling congressional probes of the White House.

“We’ve been saying cover-up for a while,” Pelosi said Thursday, adding that Trump’s actions were “an assault on the constitution.”

“And our 9 o’clock meeting is a meeting we have anyways, so it had nothing to do with him.”

“But I think what really got to him is these court cases and the fact that the House Democratic Caucus is not on a path to impeachment and that’s where he wants us to be,” Pelosi added.

She was referring to court rulings that give congressional committees the green light to gain access to Trump’s financial records from his bank and accountant, though the president is appealing the decisions.

A source told The Post that Pelosi was indeed successful at reining in some of her more vocal, pro-impeachment members at the Wednesday caucus meeting.

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Pelosi has long cautioned Democrats on the “i-word,” as Trump put it, instead pushing her caucus to use other means to probe the president. Right now Democrats are leaning on the courts and could continue to hold Trump administration officials in various forms of contempt after the Memorial Day recess.

“I think it’s very divisive,” Pelosi said Thursday, echoing comments about impeachment that she’s made in the past.

Meanwhile, she said the dispute with the president over congressional oversight of the White House shouldn’t prevent them from working together on important policy issues, such as infrastructure.

“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” Pelosi said.

“We have a responsibility to find common ground.”

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