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President Donald Trump engaged with journalists on Wednesday as
he regularly does when he departs the White House at the start
of a trip, only this time he had some help with what he wanted
to say.
Walking before assembled journalists, the president held a small
stack of papers, including handwritten notes in thick black ink
and mostly all caps, which he read aloud to reinforce his
position that he did not seek favors from Ukraine earlier this
year.
"I WANT NOTHING," he read from stationery marked ABOARD AIR
FORCE ONE in notes captured by photographers. "I WANT NO QUID
PRO QUO."
Usually the president exits the White House without papers or
paraphernalia in his hands.
Trump focused his words on comments by U.S. Ambassador to the
European Union Gordon Sondland's testimony in congressional
impeachment hearings about a conversation the two men had in
which Trump told him he wanted nothing from Ukraine.
Once the president finished reading his papers, he did not stay
to engage with reporters as he often does. Notes in hand, he
proceeded to his noisy, waiting presidential helicopter Marine
One and took off.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Howard Goller)
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