President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that it wasn’t his idea for Vice President Mike Pence to stay at his golf resort during a state visit to Ireland this week.
“I had no involvement other than it’s a great place,” Trump said, according to the White House pool report. “I heard he was going there, but it wasn’t my idea for Mike to go there.”
“Mike went there because his family’s there,” he added. “That’s my understanding of it.”
“I don’t suggest anything,” Trump then replied when a reporter asked him if he’d suggested the Vice President stay at the resort in Doonbeg, which is over 100 miles away from where Pence’s meetings were held in Dublin.
Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said on Tuesday that Trump had made the “suggestion” that Pence stay at the President’s property. Pence’s office then walked back Short’s comment several hours later and claimed it was the Vice President’s sole decision to stay there because he wanted to stay near his “ancestral hometown.”
It wasn’t the first time the White House just happened to use Trump’s Doonbeg resort during an official visit: Trump flew out of his way from his trip to the U.K. to spend two nights at his property in June, all while claiming the visit was about “great relationships we have with the U.K.”
“I had no involvement other than it’s a great place,” and he should stay there if he doesn’t want to be replaced by Nikki on the ticket in 2020.
“I don’t suggest anything,” Trump then replied …
I beg to differ. To me, you suggest an ignorant, uninformed, incompetent, illiterate, narcissistic buffoon. You also suggest a corrupt, criminally-inclined, child-like, demented fucking moron.
Amazing how they start changing the story when the lawyers remind them that this violates a number of Federal Statutes…
For example, if he stays voluntarily at a far-away place (due to family connections), all to-from travel from the business location can’t be paid by the government, but must be at his own expense…
The needle on the credibility meter goes to minus 11
Anyway he redrew the map with a sharpie to show that Doonbeg is right next to Dublin. Problem solved