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Trumps 2020 town hall was held inside the memorial, an area where events have long been barred by federal regulations
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By the next morning, the virtual town hall was no longer to be held at the base, the documents show. Trumps two-hour sit-down with Fox News anchors would take place inside the memorials main chamber, on the landing in the shadow of the marble statue of a seated Lincoln. With the exception of an annual birthday tribute to Lincoln, federal regulations bar events from being held in that area.
The email is among hundreds of pages of newly released government documents that help fill in the picture of how officials from multiple government agencies worked to engineer the event at the Lincoln, one of the many norm-defying moments of the Trump presidency. They show that the Park Service provided security personnel at a cost of nearly $150,000 and that a Secret Service official apologized to colleagues for the planning process, calling it a $#!t show.
After the event, officials noted that the memorial itself then 98 years old had sustained scratches and gouges in its pink marble floor, according to a final memorandum.
In the end, the Trump-appointed interior secretary, David Bernhardt, relaxed the rules by finding that the venue was appropriate, given the presidents need to communicate with the American people during a grave time of national crisis. That finding has been previously reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/13/trump-lincoln-memorial-fox-town-hall/
niyad
(113,306 posts)bullimiami
(13,094 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)........................"That grifting pos has no respect for anyone or anything"..............................................
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)They were worthless then as they are worthless now.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)put a maga hat on him.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,812 posts)His spastic carnival-huckstery gesticulations makes it even worse.
LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)To paraphrase Woody Allen, if Lincoln came back today and saw what his party had become, he'd never stop throwing up.
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)9. We built the greatest economy in the world, the greatest economy, frankly, Bret, and you can correct me if youd like, but you cant because its fact the greatest economy that the world has ever seen. (It is NOT a fact)
13. It it infects if you have any problem, heart, diabetes, even a little weak heart, a little diabetes, then, look, this thing is vicious, and it it can take you out. And it can take you out very strongly. (A little diabetes?)
14. New York is a very much different place than Montana or many other states, really, where its not, you know, really too, too bad. Its always bad. They lose anybody, its bad.
29. With all of that unity we have, in one sense, we have great unity, in another sense, I think theyre going to come along, I mean, you know, I certainly hope so, but the main thing I have to do is bring our country back, and I want to get it back to where it was or maybe beyond where it was, you know, we have tremendous stimulus, all the money weve been talking about so far tonight. (That sentence is 78 words long)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/politics/donald-trump-fox-lincoln-memorial/index.html
Once again, he mentions the "1917 Flu"! All those people who criticize President Biden for how he speaks, should go back and listen to some of Trump's greatest hits. Well, actually any time Trump spoke in public. There were no good speeches or interviews.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)presidency were still part of the OBAMA RECOVERY.
He did squat. He just basked in the glow.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)A walk through the Congressional record for that year is striking and disturbing. There was nothing that was too small; if it had Obama's signature on it, they repealed it if they could. All the way down to things like naming freeway overpasses.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)King Donnie wants everything his way, and he doesn't care who he has to walk over to get his way.
He's a child, even to the point of wearing diapers again so he doesn't have to go to the bathroom like everyone else. He'll shit himself then expect someone to clean him up and powder his bulbous butt.