Out-of-town note #14 - quotes

On Russia:

“We’re doing pretty well, I think, with Russia. See if we have something to announce maybe Tuesday.”

He said he will be speaking with Putin on Tuesday and that “a lot of works been done over the weekend.”

When asked about concessions he said land, power plants

On airstrikes:

He said he was not concerned about any retaliatory measures.

On federal workers:

“I have nothing to do with that, other than I heard about the decision. I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely it's a judge that's putting himself in the position of the President of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million votes.”

On whether sending back Venezuelan gang members was against judges orders:

“I don’t know you’ll have to speak to the lawyers”

On alien enemies act:

“This a time of war, because Biden allowed millions of people, many of them criminals, many of them at the highest level, they emptied jails out. Other nations emptied their jails into the United States. That's an invasion. And these are criminals, many, many criminals, murderers, drug dealers at the highest level, drug wars, people from mental institutions. That's an invasion. They invaded our country. This is war in many respects. It's more dangerous than war because, you know, in war, they have uniforms.”

On Biden autopen:

“Looked like we had an autopen for a President and we would have been better off if we had probably”

When asked if Biden pardons and EOs are null because of autopen, POTUS said “I think so. It’s not my decision that’ll be up to a court.”

On tariffs:

He said “no” when asked if any inclination to ease up on tariffs.

“April 2 is a liberating day for our country.”

“It's a liberation day for our country, because we're going to be getting back a lot of the wealth that we so foolishly gave up to other countries, including friend and foe.”

Have a good night /morning/day!

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