In-town pool report #12 - gaggle

POTUS did a brief gaggle with pool outside of Joe’s. He arrived alongside Vice President JD Vance, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and SecDef Pete Hegseth standing slightly behind him.

He said he was doing this to highlight Washington as a safer city than it was. He was greeted to loud cheers from people across the street and a smattering of boos.

Your pooler will send an audio recording in a follow up email but highlights:

• The president said he wasn’t notifid about the Israeli strike ahead of time and he wasn’t “not thrilled” and will give a full statement tomorrow on it.

• He said it wasn’t his signature on the Jeffrey Epstein birthday card turned over to lawmakers by Epstein’s estate.

At 7:40 pm a few woman walked out of the restaurant screaming “free DC! free Palestine! trump is the Hitler of our time!” They were led across the street by law enforcement.

Maggie Haberman

New York Times

@maggienyt

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