Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the now-famous couple who attended the White House state dinner without an invitation, appeared on the Today show this morning and claimed they had been legitimately been invited to the dinner.
“We’re greatly saddened by all the circumstances … portraying my wife and I as party crashers. I can tell you we did not party-crash the White House,” Tareq Salahi said.
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He said the two had handed over documentation to the Secret Service that would exonerate them.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, also on the Today show, continued to assert that the Salahis had not been invited.
“It’s safe to say he [President Obama] was angry. Michelle was angry,” Gibbs said. “This wasn’t a misunderstanding. You don’t show up at the White House as a misunderstanding.”
