So Much for Speech: Trump on Hot Mic Says He’ll Release Memo

The following article by Laurie Kellman was posted on the Associated Press website January 31, 2018:

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 (AP) — Scenes from the Capitol on a night of pomp, pageantry and politics for the State of the Union address:

Talk about stepping on one’s message.

Schmoozing in the House chamber after delivering his maiden State of the Union speech, a hot mic caught President Donald Trump telling a Republican lawmaker that he was “100 percent” in favor of making public a classified Republican intelligence memo. That was further than the White House had gone on the matter and not something Trump had said during the hour-plus speech he had finished moments earlier. Continue reading “So Much for Speech: Trump on Hot Mic Says He’ll Release Memo”