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‘I Know Nothing’: Trump Reacts To Arrest Of Former Chief Strategist Bannon

"It sounded to me like showboating"

Joseph Curl
‘I Know Nothing’: Trump Reacts To Arrest Of Former Chief Strategist Bannon
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President Trump on Thursday said he feels “very badly” about the arrest of Stephen Bannon, but added that he hasn’t dealt with his former White House chief strategist in a long time and called the fundraising project with which Bannon was connected “inappropriate.”

“I feel very badly. I haven’t been dealing with him for a very long period of time, as most of the people in this room know,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Haven’t been dealing with him at all.”

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