Pool Reports by Hugo Lowell, The Guardian
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| March 25, 2025 09:22 |
In-town pool #1 - Homan on Pebble Beach Good morning. I’m your pooler today. We are waiting at the sticks for Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, who is currently doing a hit on Fox Business |
| March 25, 2025 09:48 |
In-town pool #2 - Homan gaggle At 9:22a ET, Homan gaggled at the sticks for about 7 minutes. He declined to comment if he used Signal and said he hoped IRS would share data on undocumented immigrants. Homan also said he was confident everyone on the deportation flights were TdA members. Otter file link: +++ Q: Confident that everyone on deportation planes were Tren de Aragua members "A lot of this stuff is law enforcement sensitive and I'm not going to share a lot of stuff with you, because we certainly don't want to show how we do our inside work, because that's going to just help the criminals out there once they read it. "But I can tell you, hundreds and hundreds of hours were spent on investigations, whether it's looking at criminal history, whether immigration history, we're looking at undercover videos, whether it's talking to informants, whether it's talking to other members of the gang who gave sworn statements. There's a lot of ways that this was done. A lot of the time we spent on this. Again, I got assurances from the highest levels of ICE that this was done right. And everybody in that plane friends away with TdA. "One more thing: First of all, every on that plane was illegal alien. In the country illegally. Number two, many on that plane were removed under Title VIII. And again, we're talking about terrorists... They're not good people." |
| March 25, 2025 14:29 |
In-town pool #3 - FPPO Ambassador Meeting at 2:45P ET FPPO: White House says there will be an "Ambassador Meeting" at 2:45p ET, which will be open to the pool |
| March 25, 2025 11:32 |
In-town pool #4 - Lunch lid until 1230p ET [APP Note: No additional text was included in this report.] |
| March 25, 2025 14:20 |
In-town pool #5 - Gather for Ambassadors We are gathering for Trump’s meeting with US Ambassadors. It’s scheduled for 2:45p ET in the Cabinet Room |
| March 25, 2025 14:46 |
In-town pool #6 - Cabinet Room EOs Pool entered the Cabinet Room at 2:38p ET. Trump is sat in the middle of the table with COS Susie Wiles to his right. To his left is Sergio Gor, head of PPO. Also at the table is James Blair. Trump started the meeting by signing some executive orders, which WH Staff Secy Will Scharf passed to him: He signed a pardon for Devon Archer (? check spelling); memo ordering the immediate declassification of docs from the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump 2016 campaign's ties to Russia; EO targeting law firm Jenner and Block (bc Andrew weissman ties); EO on govt payments; EO protecting "America's bank account" which centralizes payments at US Treasury; EO on election integrity (cuts down on illegal immigrants on voter rolls). Otter and more coming |
| March 25, 2025 14:54 |
In-town pool #7 - Cabinet Room attendees Trump had everyone at the table introduce themselves. Not everyone gave their names and/or were garbled but the US Ambassador nominees at the event today: Sergio Gor, WH POO Director |
| March 25, 2025 15:18 |
In-town pool #8 - Cabinet room on Signal leak Q: Are you going to change any of the practices that your national security officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen. "Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now, and I've given a few answers, and they've all been the same. We have an amazing group national security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have had a very, very successful numerous attacks in that area. These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are ships, ships all over the world, they're shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly, or they're going down, they're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area. We hit them very, very hard. There was no classified information, as I understand it, they used a a app. You want to call it an app that a lot of people use, a lot of people in government use, a lot of people in the media use. "But that's an app that a lot of people use, and somebody got out, I mean, happened to know the guy's a total sleeper the Atlantic. The Atlantic is a failed magazine. Does very, very poorly. Nobody gives a damn about it. It gives, just gives it a little bit of a shot. And I will tell you this, that they've made up more stories, and there's just a failing magazine, the public understands that he's a very good man. That man is a very good man, right there, that you criticized [pointing to Mike Waltz sat down the table]. So he's a very good man, and he will continue to do a good job. In addition to him, we had very good people in that meeting, and those people have done a very, very effective job. Q: Will you ban Signal "Well, I don't know, I don't know anything about Signal. I wasn't involved in this, but I just heard about it, and I hear it's used by a lot of groups. It's used by the media a lot. It's used by a lot of the military, and I think, successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things. That's one of the prices you pay when you're not sitting in the Situation Room with no phones on, which is always the best, frankly. But you know, you the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've been, in fact, just last week, I was in the Situation Room on something very important, and we had a couple of people hooked up by line. And I said, cancel the line. Sorry, fellas, what you do is, we'll tell you all about the meeting, because I know people do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else. Q: But will you change procedures "Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and, you know, they've made a big deal out of this, because we've had two perfect months. We're bringing we are bringing in business. We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big, like in the history of our country, nobody's ever seen anything like it. And I think probably a lot of people are saying it's they started by saying it was the greatest first month that a president has ever had. And I think that's true. And now they say it's the best second month, and they had to find something, and this certainly will look at this. "But the main thing was, nothing happened. The attack was totally successful. It was, I guess, from what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information. So this was not classified now, but classified information… It's probably a little bit different. But I always say, you get you have to learn from every experience. I think it was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a good person. The person that was on just happens to be a sleaze bag, so maybe that's just coincidence. More coming |
| March 25, 2025 15:23 |
In-town pool #9 - Cabinet room on Signal part 2 Q: Would it be a problem if the Atlantic released all the text messages if they're not classified? "I'd have to ask the military about that, because, you know, maybe you wouldn't want that. I don't know. I will say this, that from what I heard, the man that we're talking about, who's not somebody that I don't think most people have never heard of, he left. He found it very boring, and he left early. He got off the Line very early. So I can't speak to it other than that. So he's made up a lot of stories. And, you know, I think he's basically bad for the country, but it's, it's a failing venture, very failing venture. They're very upset, and a thing like this is publicity for them, but I don't think we should allow people that are very good, like that man sitting right at the end of the table, who's done a great job. Q: FBI Investigation possibility "It's not really an FBI thing. It's really something having to do with security, security like, uh, will somebody be able to break it? Are people able to break into conversations? And if that's true, we're gonna have to find some other form of uh device. And I think that's something that we may have to do. Some people like signal very much. Other people probably don't, but we'll look into it. I think, Michael, I've asked you to immediately study that and find out if people are able to break into a system. Now, in this case, it wasn't that the this attack was going on, and nobody found out anything. And again, the person that was on, as I understand it, he left very early because he didn't find it very exciting. But I think it's something we should look into." +++ Pool was ushered out at 3:18p ET |
| March 25, 2025 15:24 |
In-town pool #10 - Ambassadors full list Passing along from WH: Stacy Feinberg, Luxembourg |
| March 25, 2025 18:04 |
In-town pool #11 - Lid White House called a travel/photo lid at 6:02p ET Have a good evening |
Donald J. Trump (2nd Term), Pool Reports of March 25, 2025 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/376850