Foreign pool report #7 Oval Office

President Macron and President Trump talked to the press in the Oval Office (a packed Oval Office with a dozen French journalists) for around 28min, ending at 1.06pm

They seemed to have a warm relationship, smiled and shook hands. Trump said he � loved � the French language.

But at the end of the Oval, they had a little disagreement when Trump said � Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back. �

Macron gently touched Trump’s arm and made a little grimace � In fact to be frank we paid, we paid 60%. We paid 60% of the total defaults. And it was like the US loans guarantee grants, and we provided real money. To be clear. We have two hundred and 30 billion frozen assets in Europe, Russian assets, but this is not as a collateral of the loan, because this is not our belonging. So they are frozen. If at the end of the day the negotiation, we will have this, Russia they're ready to give to give it to us, super, it will be loan at the end of the day. �

Trump � if you believe that it’s okay for me. �

I will send shortly some of the questions from the French press, all answers from President Macron were translated into English.

Best,

Sonia Dridi

Correspondante � Washington DC

Washington DC Correspondent

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