Out of town travel pool report #6 - call begins; POTUS speaks about shooting

Pool has been led into a smaller room where POTUS is seated alone at a table facing two large TV screens showing the military units to whom he is speaking; Trump began the call expressing remorse about yesterday’s shooting and revealed that one of the victims died.

“She was savagely attacked, she’s dead.”

He said the other victim, a man, is fighting for his life.

He called the suspect a “monster” and held up a photo of people cramming onto a plane in Afghanistan during the pullout under Biden.

“Here’s a picture, just take a look at that plane,” he said.

“This is what we had under the Biden administration.”

He is has now gone back to thanking the service members who are staring back at him silently from the tv screens in the room.

Shawn McCreesh

White House correspondent

The New York Times

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