GOP senator on Trump’s Reflecting Pool vandalism claims: ‘He grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought’
Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) said Sunday he is unsure whether President Trump truly believes his claims that vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “I don’t know whether he really believes that, or it’s part of his political messaging, or he’s just thinking out loud,” Kennedy told host Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet…
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John Kennedy (La.) said Sunday he is unsure whether President Trump truly believes his claims that vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
“I don’t know whether he really believes that, or it’s part of his political messaging, or he’s just thinking out loud,” Kennedy told host Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
“You and I both know the president well,” the Louisiana Republican added. “He exists loudly, and he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought.
I’m not saying he doesn’t really believe it, I just don’t know.”
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