From: Tessa Berenson
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 5:15 PM
Subject: in-town pool report #8: quotes from departure
President Trump took questions from assembled press for about 5 minutes before he left for JBA to head to his rally. The majority of the time was spent talking about his fight in recent days with four Democratic congresswomen — Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib.
(Note: most of the questions were inaudible to your pooler)
Trump quotes:
“If those people want to leave our country, they can”
“I think that they said horrible things... You look at some of the things they said, they’re unthinkable.”
“The Democratic Party is really going in a direction that nobody thought possible... so far left”
(Asked—I think— about whether Rep. Omar committed marriage fraud. Couldn’t hear exact phrasing of question): “There’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it.”
(When asked why he seems to be “relishing” the fight with the congresswomen): “I’m not relishing the fight. I’m enjoying it because I have to get the word out to the American people. And you have to enjoy what you do. I enjoy what I do. It’s not a question of relishing. They’re wrong, they’re absolutely wrong... We’re not going to be a socialist country.”
Please check quotes against transcript.
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Tessa Berenson
White House Correspondent—TIME Magazine
@tcberenson
RSBN is hanging in there without annoying interruptions.
Rolling Stones hit with the refrain- “Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name” playing in the background.
RSBN deducing that YouTube is jacking with the search hits, pushing them down on the search results pages.