Barr told Fox News that the “Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker,” totally blowing Trump's cover story
of the events, in which he wasn’t a scared president hiding out from his constituents—but instead just so happened to decide that this was a convenient time to give the bunker a routine inspection. Trump told Fox’sWednesday that the news of his bunker hide-out was a “false report,” claiming that he “was there for a tiny little short period of time, and it was much more for an inspection.
” noted “has not been used much, if at all” since former Presidentwere sent there after the September 11 attacks—has clearly become a particular sore spot for the president, who has tried to use the nationwide protests over racial injustice and George Floyd’s killing to cast himself as a tough “law and order” president, instead of the kind who would retreat to a bunker in times of strife. CNN reported that the president’s disastrous photo-op in front of St.
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