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tanyev

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1. Very different from the surprise meeting in front of cameras the previous guy tried to pull off.
Sat Jun 12, 2021, 02:46 PM
Jun 2021

Thank goodness.

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he thought the grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving an American diplomat's wife wanted to meet with the woman during a White House visit. But Harry Dunn's parents said they were stunned by the surprise proposition.

Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn traveled to Washington on Tuesday seeking to have the woman's diplomatic immunity lifted. Instead, Trump and national security adviser Robert O'Brien surprised the family by inviting Anne Sacoolas to the White House and suggesting Dunn's parents meet with her in front of the White House press corps.

Attorney Mark Stephens said the couple had no idea Sacoolas would be in the building when they were there Tuesday and were stunned by the proposition. He said the couple wants to meet with Sacoolas at some point, but not in a surprise meeting staged for reporters.

"If there's going to be a meeting like that, it should not involve a surprise, a jack-in-the-box, pop-out-of-a-circus-tent meeting seven weeks after the loss," said Radd Seiger, a retired lawyer who is a neighbor of the family and accompanied them to the White House. "For this to happen, you would want some heavy-duty therapy and you want to meet in a neutral environment."

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/oct/17/trump-s-meeting-offer-stuns-parents-of-/?news-national



Trump was using the presidency to produce 4 more years of a reality TV show.
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