Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerPelosi orders Capitol flags at half-staff to honor Ginsburg Ginsburg in statement before her death said she wished not to be replaced until next president is sworn in Democrats call for NRA Foundation to be prohibited from receiving donations from federal employees MORE (D-N.Y.) reportedly confronted a former top official in the administrations of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife because she voted for President Trump.

Witnesses told the New York Post’s Page Six that Schumer was angry with Hillary Califano, the wife of Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Hillary Califano corroborated the encounter at a New York restaurant to the Page Six reporter.

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“Sen. Schumer was really rude . . . He’s our senator, and I don’t really like him. Yes, [I] voted for Trump. Schumer joined us outside and he told me Trump was a liar. I should have told him that Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE was a liar, but I was so surprised I didn’t say anything,” Hillary Califano said.

Schumer’s spokesperson, however, denied that there were any “heated exchanges.”

“[He] and his wife ate at the café on Sunday, engaging in unremarkable conversation with patrons who approached their table. There were no heated exchanges with ‎anyone,” the spokesperson told page Six.

Another restaurant patron told the newspaper that the couple went over to Schumer and that they engaged in “pleasant conversation.”