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From: Jerome CARTILLIER
Date: December 3, 2019 at 11:07:53 AM GMT
Subject: Travel pool report #4c - More POTUS quotes (NK)
North Korea missile tests?
“We’ll see. I have confidence in him. I like him, he likes me, we have a good relationship. We’ll see what happens. He definitely likes sending rockets up, doesn’t he? That’s why I call him Rocket Man. But we have a very good relationship and we’ll see what happens. It may work out, it may not, but in the meantime it’s been a long time. President Obama said it’s the No. 1 problem and it would’ve been war. You’d be in a war right now if it weren’t for me. If I weren’t...
Follow up Q: But Mr. President you’ve met with KJU three times now and yet he continues to build his nuclear program and test his missiles, so what more will it take?
POTUS: “Well, you don’t know that. No. 1, you don’t know that. And No. 2, very importantly, I have met and in the meantime we still have peace. We have peace. And at least speaking for myself I have a very good personal relationship and he has with me. I’m possibly the only one he has that kind of relationship with in the world. They call it the Hermit Kingdom. I know a lot about his hermit kingdom. But I have a very good relationship. If you would’ve listened to President Obama, we’ll be in World War 3 right now.”
Jerome Cartillier
AFP White House Correspondent
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From: Jerome CARTILLIER
Date: December 3, 2019 at 11:00:14 AM GMT
Subject: Travel pool report #4b - More POTUS quotes from bilat with Stoltenberg (Macron/NATO)
Response to Macron comments on NATO being brain dead:
“I know, and then Turkey responded by saying he was brain dead, which was interesting. NATO serves a great purpose. It got to be unfair for the United States because the United States was paying a disproportionate about, and I heard that President Macron said that NATO is brain dead and I think that’s insulting to a lot of different forces, including a man that does a very good job at running NATO. It has a great purpose, especially with the fact that NATO is becoming much more flexible in terms of what it looked at.”
Another comment about Macron:
“It’s a tough statement. When you make a statement like that, that is a very, very nasty statement to essentially, including them, 28 countries. You have a very high unemployment rate in France. France is not doing well economically at all. They’re starting to tax other people’s products, so therefore we go and tax them, which is taking place right now on technology and we’re doing their wines and everything else. It’s a very tough statement to make when you have such difficulty in France. You look at what’s happened with the yellow vests or you look at what’s going on during certain parts of this season, they’ve had a very rough year. You just can’t go around making statements like that about NATO. It’s very disrespectful.”
Yet another comment about France/Macron:
“Nobody needs NATO more than France, if you just look back over the last long period of time. Nobody needs NATO more than France and frankly the one that benefits really the least is the United States. We benefit the least. We’re helping Europe. Europe unites and they go against a common foe that may or may not be a foe — can’t tell you that, but there are other foes out there also. But I think nobody needs it more than France, and that’s why I think when France makes a statement like they made about NATO, that’s a very dangerous statement for them to make.”
Jerome Cartillier
AFP White House Correspondent
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