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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report # 9
Some final lines from the president in the Oval.
On weaponization fund:
Asked why he decided to drop the weaponization fund, Trump said that he loves the fund and "I think it's so important…frankly, we had a lawsuit that against us on the weaponization, where the judge, a radical left judge, ruled against it. And we'll see how that all works out, but a radical left judge ruled against it."
Asked later if it was dead or on pause, he said: "I'd have to ask the lawyers."
"Weaponization fund, as far as I'm concerned, was a beautiful thing."
On Iran:
He said, as he did last week, that there might be a deal this weekend.
He said "most of my people" would like to resolve the conflict through a deal "in writing…without killing everybody". He said "Some people wouldn't, but most of them would."
He said his request to include wording in the MOU to prohibit Iran from buying a nuclear weapon launched an additional "two-week negotiation" on the subject.
"In theory they're pretty close to signing a paper, we've actually gotten along with them very well."
Your pooler asked whether Iran had actually agreed to let the US come in and dig out its highly enriched uranium from under the rubble, as the president suggested last week in his Truth post about the deal that he was considering. Trump said: "Well, it depends on what day you're talking about. They did agree…It's one of the things we talk about. It's very overrated. I'm the one that overrated it. To me it's important. To other people, it's not important."
The stockpile is buried under the rubble. "We will go in sometime in the not too distant future." He said Space Force has "cameras [at] every angle…those three sites are being watched at all times. If anybody went there, we'll see exactly what's happening, and we'll blow it up a little bit further."
"But when it's over, as of this moment, it's agreed that we will go in with them. We will get it, and we will destroy it."
Your pooler asked about Lebanon. He said he is "trying
to separate" the issue of Israel's military campaign there from the Iran talks. Iran wants cessation of hostilities to make a deal.