House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is demanding answers from the White House over reports President Trump discussed a sensitive national security issue in an open area at Mar-a-Lago this weekend. Multiple reports and social media posts claimed Trump, during dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is demanding answers from the White House over reports President Trump discussed a sensitive national security issue in an open area at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
Multiple reports and social media posts claimed Trump, during dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, took a call on his phone on North Korea’s test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, while sitting at a table in a crowded dining room at the Palm Beach, Fla., resort. He then huddled with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn and chief strategist Steve Bannon, while they poured over documents and made phone calls on the situation, according to CNN. First lady Melania Trump and Abe’s wife, Akie, were also seated at the table.
« Accounts and photographs from other diners seem to indicate these communications occurred in the presence of other guests, » Chaffetz wrote in a letter Tuesday addressed to Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus. « Reportedly, documents were provided by what appeared to be White House staff for the president’s review while the dinner proceeded.
